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The newsletter provides my insights on the newest updates and trends related to retirement and aging. I mainly cover topics like personal finance, planning for retirement, Social Security, Medicare, and health issues.

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What's going on at the SSA?

1 week ago | retirementrevised.substack.com | Mark Miller

If you missed my webinar presentation yesterday on the current chaos at the Social Security Administration, the video replay is here. The free event was sponsored by LiveAgeWell in Edgewater on Chicago’s north side, and the Chicagoland Villages Collaborative. I framed the conversation with some discussion of Social Security’s critical importance as our only universal, guaranteed-income retirement program - and some history of ways the program has been attacked by the right over the years.
Reminder: webinar this afternoon on Social Security Administration chaos

1 week ago | retirementrevised.substack.com | Mark Miller

Here’s a quick reminder to newsletter subscribers to join me for a one-hour free webinar this afternoon on the current chaos at the Social Security Administration. The Trump/DOGE shakeup of the SSA has created a great deal of anxiety for retirees - and people getting close to retirement - about accessing benefits and transacting business with the agency.
Join me for a conversation about the Social Security Administration

3 weeks ago | retirementrevised.substack.com | Mark Miller

The Trump administration’s high-profile shakeup of the Social Security Administration has created a great deal of anxiety for retirees - and people getting close to retirement - about accessing benefits and transacting business with the agency. Join me next Thursday May 1st at 4pm central time for a one-hour webinar discussion about what’s going on at Social Security.
Trump's latest Social Security move is chilling

3 weeks ago | retirementrevised.substack.com | Mark Miller

In the world of funhouse mirrors that is the Trump administration, it’s difficult to keep straight what exactly we should be worried about when it comes to Social Security and dead people. First, it was millions of 150-year-olds receiving benefits despite (presumably) having died (false). Now, the administration has taken the unprecedented step of adding the names of living persons to what’s known as the SSA Death Master File.
This just in: The SSA backs off its plan to curtail phone service

1 month ago | retirementrevised.substack.com | Mark Miller

These days, you really need to stay on top of developments at the Social Security Administration. The news has been breaking . . . fast and furious, let’s say. Today’s newsletter on how to navigate SSA chaos - which I sent less than an hour ago - included discussion of the agency’s plans to sharply curtail transactions available through its toll-free line. But it turns out the agency this week decided to back off that plan.
How to navigate the chaos at the Social Security Administration

1 month ago | retirementrevised.substack.com | Mark Miller

Customer service at the Social Security Administration has been bad for years - and now it’s getting worse. Elon Musk’s DOGE initiative is leading a Trump administration plan to reduce the SSA workforce by 7,000 people - roughly 12% of the workforce - through voluntary separation or firings, and limiting the scope of services available through the toll-free phone line in a way that is expected to force a much larger number of people to visit overworked field offices to transact business.
Weekend thoughts on the stock market

1 month ago | retirementrevised.substack.com | Mark Miller

When the stock market goes through a stomach-churning drop, retirement investors are naturally inclined to want to do something about it. We certainly are at such a point now. The Dow Jones Industrial Average finished on Friday down 14.9% from its recent high. The Nasdaq Composite is down 22.7% from its recent high. (When markets drop more than 20%, that’s consider a bear market.). But doing “something” just might be your worst move. The time to act is before the market gets rough.
Social Security clamps down on phone applications for benefits

1 month ago | retirementrevised.substack.com | Mark Miller

The Trump administration and Elon Musk’s DOGE crew are continuing their shakeup of the Social Security Administration (SSA) as they continue to hunt for massive fraud that doesn’t exist at the agency. This week, the DOGE hunt shifted into a new gear that will hurt millions of people applying for benefits. The SSA announced that it no longer will process benefit claims through its toll free phone line unless applicants provide separate proof of identity.
Join me for a webinar on the future of long-term care

2 months ago | retirementrevised.substack.com | Mark Miller

Join me for a webinar tomorrow on the challenges facing our long-term care system in the United States.
Is privatization the end game on Social Security?

2 months ago | retirementrevised.substack.com | Mark Miller

“I don’t want to abolish government. I simply want to reduce it to the size where I can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub.”-Grover Norquist, founder of Americans for Tax ReformWhen Norquist said that in 2001, he represented a faction of the Republican Party that favored big tax cuts and a radical shrinking of the federal government. Today, that faction rules not only the GOP but Congress and the executive branch in Washington.