Articles by Brendan Conley

Senator Bernie Sanders’ plan would fund Social Security through 2060 by making the rich pay their fair share

February 19, 2015

Senator Bernie Sanders Every worker is familiar with Social Security taxes, the 6.2 percent of earnings that is taken out of every paycheck to fund the Social Security [...]

Rule change by House Republicans could lead to disability cuts

January 20, 2015

Senator Bernie Sanders Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives have issued a rule change that would prohibit a routine reallocation of funds from the Social Security [...]

Benefits to increase 1.7 percent in 2015

October 24, 2014

The Social Security Administration announced that in 2015, Social Security and Supplemental Security Income (SSI) benefits will rise by 1.7 percent. The cost-of-living [...]

There is no crisis: fixing the Social Security disability trust fund should be routine and noncontroversial

July 31, 2014

Senator Ron Wyden Social Security is one of the most popular, successful, and stable government programs in history. Social Security runs at a surplus, providing an essential [...]

Congressional committee says Social Security judges ‘rubber stamp’ claims, but approvals have dropped sharply

June 17, 2014

Rep. Darrell Issa The U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Oversight and Government Reform issued a report and held hearings in an attempt to show that the Social [...]

Social Security was first proposed by Thomas Paine

May 15, 2014

Many people are aware that Social Security was instituted in the United States after the Great Depression, as part of the New Deal series of recovery programs. However, the [...]

Social Security halts program to collect old debts by seizing tax refunds

April 30, 2014

The Social Security Administration will no longer attempt to collect debts more than 10 years old, after public outcry over the agency’s interception of some [...]

Good news and bad news for Social Security in Obama’s budget proposal

March 31, 2014

Photo courtesy of SEIU. The Obama administration has released its budget proposal for Fiscal Year 2015, and there is both good news and bad news for Social Security. The good [...]

Social Security disability benefits will be expedited for some veterans

February 20, 2014

The Social Security Administration (SSA) announced on February 19 that veterans who have been found to be 100 percent disabled by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) will [...]

Report shows media bias favoring cuts in Social Security

January 17, 2014

Media Matters for America, a nonprofit research center, has completed a study of media coverage of Social Security by television news programs in the second half of 2013. The [...]

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