‘It is chaos’: Trump dissolves agency that funds services for seniors, people with disabilities across Alaska

‘It is chaos’: Trump dissolves agency that funds services for seniors, people with disabilities across Alaska

Seniors can access lunch for just $5 three days a week at the Haines/Klukwan Senior Center. (Avery Ellfeldt/KHNS) There was a steady hum of chatter at the Haines/Klukwan Senior Center during a recent Wednesday lunch. On the menu: lasagna, apricot salad, bread and steamed veggies – all for just $5, for those who could afford to pay. Lunch may be what brings seniors to the building three days a week around noon. But it’s far from the only draw. Ha…

'Impacting people’s money': Draconian SSA cuts creating major hardships for seniors

During his 2024 campaign, now-President Donald Trump insisted that cuts to Social Security were not on the table. But the U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA), established 90 years ago in 1935 as part of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal, is among the many federal government agencies being targeted for mass layoffs by the Trump Administration and the Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). Democratic ex-Maryla…

BLK ALERTS - New Social Security rules will create hurdles for millions of seniors, report finds

A new report from a left-leaning Center on Budget and Policy Priorities finds that upcoming changes to Social Security will amount to a “45-mile trip for some 6 million seniors.” (Image credit: Wesley Lapointe)

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