This Week in Medicare. House GOP Budget Plan Targets $880B in Medicaid, Medicare Cuts. Hospital groups, health care industry leaders denounce the major cost reductions in federal

Trump named Elon Musk as the head of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). Musk wants to slash $2 trillion from federal spending, a goal that will be difficult without Social Security and Medicare cuts.

I’m turning 65 in July and not receiving my Social Security check. Last week I tried to open a “My Social Security” account to enroll in Medicare online and discovered that my Social Security account is blocked.

In Washington, they're talking about cutting Medicaid, Medicare and Social Security for the first time in generations.

I’m certainly not an expert on Social Security. I will leave that up to Tom Margenau, who regularly writes a weekly column for this newspaper on Social Security.

The post 2008 financial shock, by necessity, required governments create massive piles of cash to sustain the economy, especially if they were not going to bail out holders of home mortgages. Turning cash over to finance kept the economy humming,

Note: Because Toni recently received more reader queries about creating a My Social Security account after the account is blocked, we are rerunning the following column from April of 2024.

Republicans are publicly discussing the prospect of making cuts to mandatory spending programs, which could include programs like Social Security and Medicare. Social Security benefits are paid to millions of Americans on a monthly basis,

The nonpartisan Senior Citizens League expects the COLA to be 2.3% for 2026, based on a forecast that inflation will drop throughout the coming year. Another forecast by independent Social Security and Medicare analyst Mary Johnson puts the expected COLA increase at 2.

Democratic members of Congress from Maryland rallied Monday, vowing a fight against any attempts by the Trump administration to meddle with Social Security, Medicare or Medicaid

NOTE: Because Toni recently received more reader queries about creating a My Social Security account after the account is blocked, we are rerunning the following column from April of 2024.