State Issues

• Seniors stand ready to support pro-worker legislation in 2021

  January 11, 2021: Lessons learned from 2020: We need access to affordable health care, reliable internet access, and our pensions protected. https://www.thestand.org/2021/01/seniors-stand-ready-to-support-pro-worker-legislation-in-2021/...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 >