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• New Bill Seeks to Improve Medicare Coverage

  September 24, 2016: By Casey Schwarz from the September 22, 2016 Medicare Watch Congress took steps this week to improve Medicare coverage and enrollment rules by introducing the “The Medicare Affordability and Enrollment Act of 2016.” If passed, the bill wo...Read more >

• 2016 ‘Senior Champion’ Awards Banquet

  September 15, 2016: Come help us celebrate our 15 Year Anniversary with a party and a new tradition, a fall fund raiser to benefit our C4 organization, to be held on Saturday, October 29th.  We plan to honor Representative Adam Smith as this year's recipient and rec...Read more >

• KHN: Study Finds Benefits When Seniors Call Shots To Help Them

  September 08, 2016: By: Rachel Bluth, Kaiser Health News a national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. A federally funded project that researchers say has potential to promote aging in place began by asking ...Read more >

• Celebrate National Senior Citizens Day by Supporting Raise Up Washington YES 1433

  August 20, 2016: National Senior Citizens Day is tomorrow, August 21st, a day to recognize the contributions seniors make across our country. However, when most folks think about older people, they think of retirees. But many seniors are still in the work force and d...Read more >

• Retirees endorse Mike Kreidler for The Office of the Insurance Commissioner

  August 12, 2016: The National Alliance for Retired Americans announces their endorsed federal candidates once primaries are over. They mail questionnaires to primary winners and score answers from the candidates. Since their national endorsement of Hillary Clinton fo...Read more >

• Protecting, Strengthening and Expanding Social Security and Medicare for ALL Generations

  July 25, 2016: Please join Robby Stern, President of Puget Sound Advocates for Retirement Action (PSARA) and Chair of Social Security Works Washington for a Lunch and Learn Program on Monday, September 26, 2016. The lunch will be at the Kent Senior Center, 600 E...Read more >

• Welcome to the Washington State Alliance

  July 21, 2016: Welcome to the WA State Alliance for Retired Americans Educational Fund (WSARA-EF)’s new website. It’s an exciting part of restructuring our organization as a C4 political, non-profit organization. Our purpose is to create a statewide network ...Read more >

• Protect SHIBA Funding

  July 21, 2016: Did you know that our state may have been the first one to offer free, unbiased, one on one counseling on Medicare? That’s what I learned from Carolyn Smith, the Field Supervisor for the SHIBA program administered under the Office of the Insurance ...Read more >

• Now is the time to expand Medicare

  July 20, 2016: The following article, published in the Washington Public Employees Council Summer 2016 newsletter, was written by their Executive Director Maria Britton Sipe, an Executive Board member of WSARA-EF. The time is now to move federal legislation to e...Read more >

• Strengthening Medicare Without Shifting Costs to Beneficiaries

  April 06, 2016: When it comes to strengthening Medicare, it is important to avoid changes that shift additional costs to seniors. The Alliance recently submitted comments for the record to the U.S. House Committee on Ways and Means Health Subcommittee regarding this...Read more >