Retirement Security

• 2024 WSARA Annual Convention

  July 30, 2024: Registration is now open for our 2024 WSARA Annual Convention. The Washington State Alliance for Retired Americans’ Executive Board invites members and guests to attend our 2024 Annual Conventi...Read more >

• KFF Health News: Lack of Affordability Tops Older Americans’ List of Health Care Worries

  July 11, 2024: What weighs most heavily on older adults’ minds when it comes to health care? The cost of services and therapies, and their ability to pay. “It’s on our minds a whole lot because of our age and because everything keeps getting more expens...Read more >

• Alliance for Retired Americans Enthusiastically Endorses Joe Biden for Reelection

  January 30, 2024: Washington, DC -- Citing President Biden’s record of commitment to retirement security for every American, the Alliance for Retired Americans, a national grassroots advocacy organization, today endorsed Joe Biden for reelection as President and Kam...Read more >

• Researcher: Medicare Advantage Plans Costing Billions More Than They Should

  December 17, 2021: [caption id="attachment_1303" align="alignnone" width="300"] Piggy bank and stethoscope illustrating medical insurance[/caption] (THE IMAGE BANK / GETTY IMAGES) From KHN By Fred Schulte  NOVEMBER 11, 2021 Switching seniors to Medicare Adva...Read more >

• As Drug Prices Keep Rising, State Lawmakers Propose Tough New Bills to Curb Them

  February 18, 2021: The WA State Alliance for Retired Americans supports Senator Karen Keiser's bill: Substitute - SSB 5020 is in the Senate Ways and Means Committee now. This article is from BenefitsPro By Harris Meyer, Kaiser Health News | February 15, 2021 ...Read more >

• 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 >

• WSARA 2020 Year in Review

  December 28, 2020: The WA State Alliance for Retired Americans wishes you and your family a safe and enjoyable holiday season! No Monday Alert Retiree News will be published on December 28th but we will resume on January 4, 2021! Here is a brief report of activi...Read more >

• Celebrate the Older Americans Act on July 14th

  July 10, 2019: Most Americans are familiar with the two main pieces of legislation that have been the cornerstone of retirement security for more than half a century -Medicare and Social Security. But the Older Americans Act (OAA) that was signed into law by Pr...Read more >

• WSARA Summer Celebration Forum

  June 15, 2019: Current and future retirees are invited to our Summer Celebration Forum  for the Anniversaries of Medicare and Social Security. It will be held on Wednesday, August 14th, 10 am to 3 pm, at the Laborer's Local 242 Union Hall located 22323 Pacific...Read more >

• 2018 WSARA Senior Champion Awards Luncheon and Legislative Conference

  September 06, 2018: As part of efforts to expand our activities this year, WSARA is hosting our 2018 Senior Champion Awards Luncheon fundraiser combined with our first Biennial Senior Legislative Conference that afternoon. We will begin our program by honoring this ye...Read more >