Blog

• 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 >