Washington, DC (July 8, 2011) Today, RetireSafe President Thair Phillips called proposed efforts to establish a “chained” consumer price index (CPI) as the standard used to determine annual Social Security cost-of-living adjustments (COLAs), “an unfair tax on older Americans.”

Washington, D.C. (April 13, 2011) — RetireSafe, a 400,000-supporter strong national advocacy group for older Americans, today rejected the President’s budget, and all budgets that seek to finance the Government’s out of control spending by cutting critical funding of Medicare.

 Washington, D.C. (March 31, 2011) — RetireSafe, a 400,000-supporter strong national advocacy group for older Americans, today applauded the Automotive Body Parts Association (ABPA) for its strong presentation on the many benefits of aftermarket parts, which was delivered at the recent Collision Industry Conference.

Washington, DC (March 16, 2011) Today RetireSafe, representing more than 400,000 senior-citizen supporters nationwide, strongly endorsed the recently introduced CPI for Seniors Act, H.R. 1086. This critical House legislation, introduced by U.S. Representatives John “Jimmy” Duncan, Jr. (TN-2) and Daniel Lipinski (IL-3), along with six of their House colleagues, will finally end the use of the admittedly flawed Consumer Price Index (CPI)

 October 14, 2010 (Washington, DC) — RetireSafe, a 400,000-supporter strong national advocacy group for older Americans, today blasted Congress for again failing older Americans by keeping in place a flawed government consumer price index (CPI) to measure inflation for the annual Social Security cost of living adjustment (COLA) for retirees. For the second year in a row that faulty CPI has produced a “zero” COLA for Social Security beneficiaries. Said another way, Social Security checks will not be increased until at least January 2012. “This is clearly wrong, and Congress must be held accountable,” said RetireSafe President Thair Phillips.

Washington, DC (July 8, 2010) - RetireSafe President Thair Phillips, speaking on behalf of more than 400,000 senior-citizen supporters across America, today protested President Obama's recess appointment of Dr. Donald Berwick as Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), Department of Health and Human Services.

Washington, DC (June 21, 2010) - RetireSafe President Thair Phillips, representing 400,000 senior-citizen supporters across America, last week delivered hundreds of online messages from older Americans supporting the need for H.R. 5305, the CPI for Seniors Act.

Washington, DC (June 1, 2010) - Today RetireSafe, representing 400,000 senior citizen supporters nationwide, announced the overwhelming online response to its call for "Virtual Testimony" from seniors on the zero Social Security Cost of Living Adjustment for 2010 and its impact on their lives.

 Washington, DC (May 17, 2010) – Today RetireSafe, representing 400,000 senior-citizen supporters across America, praised U.S. Representatives John “Jimmy” Duncan, Jr. (TN-2), Daniel Lipinski (IL-3), Marcia Fudge (OH-11), Michael Arcuri (NY-24), and Gregg Harper (MS-3) for introducing H.R. 5305, the CPI for Seniors Act. H.R. 5305 would establish a new Consumer Price Index for Seniors (CPI-S) so that annual Social Security Cost-of-Living-Adjustments (COLAs) can be fairly determined. 

Washington, DC (March 26, 2010) – RetireSafe, representing 500,000 senior citizen supporters across America, today urged Members of the U.S. House of Representatives to become "original" cosponsors of the CPI for Seniors Act, soon to be introduced by Congressman John J. Duncan, Jr. (R-TN) and Congressman Daniel Lipinski (D-IL).

 Washington, DC (March 22, 2010) Today RetireSafe, representing 400,000 senior citizen supporters across America, called on the United States House Judiciary Committee to take swift action to pass H.R. 3059, the “Access to Repair Parts Act”  sponsored by Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren (D-CA) and several of her House colleagues. “This important legislation would provide great benefit to older Americans,” said RetireSafe President Thair Phillips. “We urge the House Judiciary Committee to take swift action to move H.R. 3059 towards passage,” Phillips added.

 Washington, DC (March 10, 2010) - Today RetireSafe, representing 400,000 senior citizen supporters across America, urged seniors nationwide to call on Congress to save high-quality physician hospitals from the restrictive health care reform language now pending in Congress. House and Senate “reform” efforts would ration high-quality physician hospital care to Medicare patients, as a “cost savings.” “The health care reform bill now being considered would deny Medicare beneficiaries access to the best in hospital care and the best prices by limiting the operation and growth of physician hospitals,” charged RetireSafe President Thair Phillips. 

 Over 95 percent of the 800 seniors who were surveyed by RetireSafe recently said Social Security benefits have not kept up with the actual cost-of-living over the last five years.

 In the survey, seniors said that they are struggling to make ends meet because the lack of a cost of living increase is hitting them hard.  While their living expenses are increasing more rapidly than they can keep track of, their Social Security benefits aren’t keeping up.

 RetireSafe, a seniors’ grassroots advocacy organization with over 400,000 supporters, is calling on seniors to support legislation to fix the problem.  RetireSafe president Thair Phillips, said, “The first step is to get an accurate Consumer Price Index for Seniors, a CPI-S.”

Washington, DC (December 29, 2009) – Today RetireSafe announced a "Let's Get it Right" campaign for 2010 to establish a new Consumer Price Index for Seniors (CPI-S) so that Social Security benefits can be accurately and fairly determined each year.

Washington, DC (December 10, 2009) RetireSafe strongly opposes efforts to change the mission of the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) from a Congressional advisory body to an Executive Branch decision-making entity.

December 2, 2009 . . . Washington, D.C. - RetireSafe is calling to action seniors across America in support of Senator McCain's amendment to remove hundreds of billions of dollars in cuts to Medicare.

Washington, D.C. November 23, 2009 . . . While the Senate Democrats moved forward on their health care bill this weekend, RetireSafe has called on seniors to grab their bullhorns to protest cuts in Medicare.

Washington, DC (November 18, 2009) Today RetireSafe, representing over 400,000 senior citizen supporters across America, called on the United States Senate to stop the proposed rationing of high-quality hospital care to Medicare patients. "The health care reform bill soon to be considered in the Senate would deny Medicare beneficiaries access to the best in hospital care by limiting the operation and growth of physician hospitals," charged RetireSafe President Thair Phillips.

Washington, DC (November 6, 2009) Today RetireSafe, representing 400,000 senior citizen supporters across America, called on the U.S. House of Representatives to stop the proposed rationing of high-quality hospital care to Medicare patients. "The health care reform bill soon to be considered by the House would deny Medicare beneficiaries access to the best in hospital care by limiting the operation and growth of physician hospitals," charged RetireSafe President Thair Phillips

Washington, D.C. November 5, 2009 . . In a statement released today, RetireSafe President Thair Phillips calls AARP's endorsement of the House health care bill the greatest fraud against seniors in the 21st century. He said, "AARP, easily the most influential seniors lobby, is using their clout to get a bill passed that will slash Medicare and ration the health care of seniors."

October 19, 2009 . . .Washington DC — As the nation continues its debate on health care reform and Social Security COLA, a new survey taken by RetireSafe finds that over 79 percent of more than 626 seniors responding to a poll expressed concerns that they were not represented in Washington.

(Washington, DC) October 19, 2009 . . .  RetireSafe applauded the President’s recommendation to grant a onetime payment of $250 to seniors who have suffered the ongoing inequity of a Social Security Cost-of-Living Adjustment (COLA) that doesn’t treat seniors correctly, and said the government needs to correct the problem rather than relying on stop-gap measures

October 14, 2009 . . . Washington DC — As the nation continues its debate on health care reform, a new poll by RetireSafe finds that over two-thirds of more than 500 seniors responding to a poll expressed concerns that they were not represented in Washington. 

Washington, DC (September 23, 2009) Today RetireSafe, representing 400,000 senior supporters across America, called on the U.S. Senate, starting with the Senate Finance Committee, to stop the proposed rationing of high-quality hospital care to Medicare patients.

Washington, DC (September 23, 2009) Today RetireSafe, representing 400,000 senior supporters across America, called on the U.S. Senate, starting with the Senate Finance Committee, to stop the proposed rationing of high-quality hospital care to Medicare patients. 

Appeals to president to listen, and to give and take

Washington, D.C. Tuesday, September 15, 2009... RetireSafe, a seniors' grassroots advocacy organization, is launching a campaign to amass the opinions of older Americans on health care reform in response to President Obama's speech to Congress last week.

(Washington, DC) August 24, 2009 - RetireSafe applauds Michael Steele, chairman of the Republican National Committee for outlining some crucial steps for health care to protect senior Americans. “We look at The Seniors’ Health Care Bill of Rights, unveiled today, as an “emergency medical intervention” that will help ensure that seniors will receive access to quality health care,” stated Thair Phillips, RetireSafe President.

(Washington, DC) July 28, 2009 -- Seniors group calls AARP’s support of Obama’s Rationing-by-Bureaucrat Proposal an Outrage to Older Americans.

Washington, DC (June 23, 2009) - Today the 400,000-strong seniors group RetireSafe saluted the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA) for its commitment to support legislation to cut prescription drug prices by 50 percent for seniors who fall into in the Medicare Part D Prescription Drug Program “doughnut-hole.”

(Washington, DC) June 10, 2009 -- Today the 400,000 strong senior-citizen group RetireSafe blasted President Obama and his Congressional allies for proposing to cut $500 billion or more from Medicare to pay for "health care reform." Thair Phillips, the new president of RetireSafe, called the plan "an insult to every older American."

RetireSafe welcomes Thair Phillips as its new president. He has served as a member of the RetireSafe board for two years.

Washington, DC (May 17, 2009) – Today RetireSafe, representing 400,000 senior-citizen supporters across America, praised U.S. Representatives John "Jimmy" Duncan, Jr. (TN-2), Daniel Lipinski (IL-3), Marcia Fudge (OH-11), Michael Arcuri (NY-24), and Gregg Harper (MS-3) for introducing H.R. 5305, the CPI for Seniors Act.

(Reston, VA - May 12, 2009) In response to the dire warnings issued in today’s Social Security and Medicare Trustees Report, RetireSafe and its 400,000 senior supporters called on the President and Congress to take immediate action to secure the promised benefits older Americans rely on.

“This will be one of the biggest boondoggles in the history of man.”  So says a RetireSafe supporter in response to our recent survey on the health care provisions in President Obama’s stimulus bill designed to ration your access to quality care. This supporter’s comment represents many of the concerns seniors’ across America raised about a huge government database of every treatment, diagnosis and prescription from every doctor in the country.

Washington, DC (March 22, 2009) Today RetireSafe, representing 400,000 senior citizen supporters across America, called on the United States House Judiciary Committee to take swift action to pass H.R. 3059, the "Access to Repair Parts Act" sponsored by Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren (D-CA) and several of her House colleagues.

Washington, DC (March 19, 2009) Today RetireSafe, representing 400,000 senior citizen supporters nationwide, urged every older American to make their voice heard in opposition to the health care reform bill soon to be voted on in the House.

Washington, DC (February 19, 2009) Over 95 percent of the 800 seniors who were surveyed by RetireSafe recently said Social Security benefits have not kept up with the actual cost-of-living over the last five years.