Retirement Security

• Dick Long: Time to Stop Playing Games and Using Scare Tactics with Our Retirement

  October 29, 2016: The following selection is from an Op-Ed article written by MIARA President Dick Long. This article first appeared in the Macomb Daily Newspaper. Michiganders who work their entire lives to support their families deserve a secure retirement. And fran...Read more >

• Seniors and Veterans Demand a Vote on the SAVE Benefits Act

  March 09, 2016: [flagallery gid=3] Today Maryland/DC Alliance member Susan Taylor spoke at an event on Capitol Hill urging the Senate to vote on S. 2251, U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren's SAVE Benefits Act - providing seniors a one-time payment of $581. The amount is...Read more >

• Kasich and Jeb Bush Mean Trouble for Seniors

  February 11, 2016: John Kasich and Jeb Bush mean trouble for seniors and retirees. The New Hampshire primary results are in, and the top four for the Republicans were businessman Donald Trump, Gov. John Kasich (Ohio), Sen. Ted Cruz (TX), and former Governor Jeb Bush (F...Read more >

• Silver Tsunami to Bring 25 Million More Medicare Beneficiaries by 2036

  January 27, 2016: [caption id="attachment_3359" align="alignnone" width="300"] Cartoon by Graeme MacKay, The Hamilton Spectator[/caption] The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) projects that Medicare enrollment will grow by more than 30 percent over the next ten yea...Read more >

• End of Life: Medicare Will Cover Discussions

  December 08, 2015: A September 2015 Kaiser study showed that 89% of Americans surveyed support the idea that doctors should have end of life discussions with their patients. Further, 81% also believed that Medicare should cover those discussions. When Centers for Me...Read more >

• Fight to keep our post offices open. (Read the contained resolution and act to be a part of the solution)

  October 23, 2014: “KEEP ‘EM OPEN!” What happens when the Postmaster General shuts down your Postal Facility? Mail is slowed down: Checks, medicines, payments, bills Newspapers, church bulletins, books, magazines Special greeting cards, holiday cards ...Read more >

• Thanks for doing your part, now what about these big corporations who have been using tax loopholes and offshore tax havens

  April 16, 2014: Friend, If you've paid your taxes or are about to file, thanks for doing your part. Now if only the biggest corporations could do the same. Tell Congress not to renew two tax loopholes that reward big corporations and Wall Street for shiftin...Read more >

• Alec’s Pay to Play Scheme

  March 18, 2014: As retirees, We have witnessed the mass exodus of jobs overseas. We have seen the decline of workers’ rights and wage stagnation, while corporations enjoy larger and larger handouts and giveaways. It’s too much.   For 41 years, the Ameri...Read more >

• Bill Schuette is in a conflict of interest

  October 15, 2013: LANSING — Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette is in a conflict of interest in the Detroit bankruptcy case by acting on behalf of city retirees on one side and the State of Michigan and Gov. Rick Snyder on the other, according to two legal e...Read more >

• Michigan Legislature Lame Duck session

  March 15, 2013: MiARA MARCH NEWSLETTER Lame Duck Produces Bad Bills The 2012 Michigan Legislature Lame Duck session produced some of the most controversial bills in recent history. Included among these is the so-called, anti-worker “Right-to-Work�...Read more >