Seniors and Retirement Security
WASHINGTON, DC – Congressman Joe Courtney today released the following statement after House Republican leaders agreed to extend the payroll tax cut, ending their objection to relief for 160 million American families:
WASHINGTON, DC – Congressman Joe Courtney today announced that, since the beginning of 2011, his office has helped return $1,331,686 to eastern Connecticut citizens who were owed Social Security checks, veterans' benefits, tax refunds and other payments from the federal government.
WASHINGTON, DC – Congressman Joe Courtney today released the following statement after House Republican leadership obstructed a bipartisan agreement that would extend payroll tax cuts to middle class Americans:
WASHINGTON, DC – According to new data from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), eastern Connecticut seniors saved $3.388 million on prescription drugs from January through October as a result of the Affordable Care Act.
WASHINGTON, DC – Congressman Joe Courtney today applauded the Social Security Administration's 3.6-percent cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) for Social Security beneficiaries in 2012. The COLA will begin with benefits that nearly 55 million Social Security beneficiaries receive in January 2012.
WASHINGTON, DC – Congressman Joe Courtney today released the following statement after voting "yes" on Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's compromise plan to end the default crisis:
HARTFORD – Members of the Connecticut Congressional delegation and Governor Dannel Malloy applauded today's decision by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to reevaluate their analysis of payments to Connecticut hospitals in the FY 2012 Medicare Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) proposed rule.
WASHINGTON, DC –Congressman Joe Courtney today invited eastern Connecticut seniors to a public forum to discuss the House Republican plan to privatize Medicare. The forum will be held on Tuesday, June 28, in Willimantic.
WASHINGTON, DC – Congressman Joe Courtney today re-stated his opposition to the House Republican plan to privatize Medicare as a Bloomberg analysis of Census data showed that the Second District of Connecticut is one of the 10 Congressional districts hardest hit by the plan's changes.