National Committee To Preserve Social Security And Medicare

Education: media interviews: media interviews grp staff were interviewed by multiple press organizations, including cbs news, cnbc, npr, think advisor, marketwatch and wall street journal. Volunteer engagement the national committee held monthly volunteer calls with activists and responded to volunteer requests for materials, literature, and information to promote engagement. In 2025, the number of volunteers that participated in the monthly call doubled, due to concerns raised by the new administration and congress. Grp staff worked with ncpssm volunteers and activists to encourage them to call, email and visit their members of congress to urge them to lobby oppose any social security, medicare or medicaid benefit cuts and the proposed fiscal commission. Our national volunteers held grassroots events and performed community outreach in new hampshire, florida, colorado, and california. Policy papers national committee policy papers - april 2024: viewpoint: republican study committee budget cuts social security, medicare and medicaid, viewpoint: the president's fy 2025 budget impacts seniors now and in the future. - may 2024: viewpoint: analysis of the 2024 social security trustees report. - june 2024: viewpoint: the cassidy-king plan for social security is a trojan horse for benefit cuts, raising the social security retirement age: a cut in benefits for future retirees, fast facts about the social security disability program, viewpoint: the trust act: setting the stage for cuts to social security and medicare while avoiding political accountability, means-testing social security: breaking faith with american workers, analysis of 2024 medicare trustees report. - july 2024: how the architects of project 2025 plan to destroy social security, medicare and medicaid, social security provides vital benefits for young people, a constitutional balanced budget amendment threatens social security, medicare and medicaid, chained cpi will hurt seniors. - october 2024: raising the social security tax cap, fast facts about social security, meeting the demand for lower drug prices in medicare. - november 2024: myths and realities about social security and privatization, national caregiver month, social security state snapshots, the cpi-e: a better option for calculating social security colas. - december 2024: parents depend on social security benefits for their children. - january 2025: government pension offset and windfall elimination provision. - march: 2025: social security is not a ponzi scheme. Congressional meetings the national committee met with the following members of congress and/or their staff: - april 2024: democratic staff of the house subcommittee on social security. - may 2024: met with senator sheldon whitehouse (d-ri) and representative mike levin (d-ca). Met with representative matt cartwright's staff. - june 2024: met with representative john larson (d-ct) and democratic staff of the house subcommittee on social security. - july 2024: met with representatives john larson (d-ct) and susie lee (d-nv). - august 2024: met with senators tammy baldwin (d-wi), richard blumenthal (d-ct), bob casey jr. (d-pa), chris coons (d-pa), maggie hassan (d-nh), mark kelly (d-az), ed markey (d-ma), jeff merkley (d-or), chris van hollen (d-md), ron wyden (d-or) and representative elissa slotkin (d-mi). - september 2024: met with senator bob casey (d-pa) and representatives deborah ross (d-nc) and marci kaptur (d-oh). - october 2024: met with senator jackie rosen (d-nv) and representative jan schakowsky's (d-il) staff. - november 2024: met with representative shri thanedar (d-mi). - december 2023: met with representative greg landsman (d-oh) and representatives-elect dave min (d-ca) and april delaney (d-md). - january 2025: met with representatives john larson (d-ct) and mike levin (d-ca). Also beginning in january periodic meetings with senate finance committee minority staff. - february 2025: met with senator mike crapo's finance committee staff and house democratic leader hakeem jeffries's staff. - march 2025: met with representative suzan delbene (d-wa). Congressional and administration letters and statements the national committee wrote the following letters to members of congress: - april 2024: ncpssm letter to appropriations committee fiscal year 2025 ssa, medicare advantage final rule sign on. - june 2024: testimony to house subcommittee on health, employment, labor & pensions, testimony to house budget committee medicare and social security solvency budget impacts, testimony to house social security subcommittee hearing on social security trustees report, ncpssm letter to house against rescinding cms nursing home staffing standard rule. - august 2024: ncpssm letter endorsing rep. Matt cartwright hear act. - september 2024: letter to house: continuing resolution (cr) for fiscal year (fy) 2025, ncpssm letter to senate opposing s. Con. Res. 41. - november 2024: ncpssm letter to house oppose h.r. 5342 + support h.r. 82. - december 2024: ncpssm letter senate oppose amendment 3336 + support h.r. 82, ncpssm letter senate oppose raising retirement age + support h.r. 82, nursing home staffing standards letter. - february 2025: ncpssm letter house oppose fy 2025 budget resolution, ncpssm letter senate oppose fy 2025 budget resolution. - march 2025: ncpssm letter senate endorsing ssi saving penalty elimination act, ncpssm letter house endorsing ssi saving penalty elimination act, ncpssm letter senate ssa overpayment policy finance, ncpssm letter senate ssa overpayment policy aging, ncpssm letter house ssa overpayment policy ways and means, ncpssm letter ways + means supporting rep larson res of inquiry, ncpssm letter senate support seniors in fy 2025 cr, ncpssm letter house support seniors in fy 2025 cr.