Low COLA? Blame it on Gasoline
The author says that a drop in gasoline prices is to blame for the very low COLA that was announced for 2017 this week.
The author says that a drop in gasoline prices is to blame for the very low COLA that was announced for 2017 this week.
The Social Security Administration has announced that the maximum amount of earnings subject to the Social Security tax will climb 7.3% in 2017.
There will be a COLA increase of 0.3% for federal retirees and Social Security recipients in 2017.
A Twitter user claiming to be a Postal worker recently made a post about how he enjoyed destroying Donald Trump ballots for absentee voters that he found in the mail, but did this really happen?
There is a common belief that Members of Congress have a special pension that will pay them their full salary as a pension for as little as five years of Congressional service. Is this really true?
Contributions to the CFC have been going down each year since 2009. A new executive order seeks to reverse this by allowing retired federal employees to donate as well as allowing agencies to count federal employees’ time spent working for charity as a monetary donation.
The word “steal” is used very loosely in the Social Security debate. However, if anyone is guilty of actually “stealing” from Social Security, the author says that one man stands out above all others. He explains how he believes this to be the case.
Three House Committee Chairmen sent a letter to Attorney General Loretta Lynch asking why the Justice Department was declining to press criminal charges against the EPA for its role in the Gold King Mine spill in Colorado.
Want to be a millionaire someday? These are five habits that people who become millionaires practice that helped them get there.
Borrowing money has become commonplace for the federal government to fund its operations. What is this likely to mean for future tax rates? The author provides an analysis.