Chairman Whitehouse, Ranking Member Grassley, members of the Committee, thank you for the opportunity to testify before you this morning at this important hearing. I am Samantha Jacoby, Senior Tax...

The bill’s provisions could well mean that families face more barriers to finding and maintaining stable employment that can help them move out of poverty.

The President’s budget for fiscal year 2024 contains several important proposals to protect and strengthen Medicare. By modestly raising taxes on high-income people and reducing drug prices, the budget shores up Medicare’s financing and lowers beneficiaries’ costs. The budget also contains additional proposals to make Medicare less costly and improve benefits.

Cash assistance to families with low incomes is critical both to help them stabilize their circumstances and to create conditions in which they can thrive. A new body of research compiled by Chapin...

States had to meet several conditions to receive the federal funds, collectively called a Maintenance of Effort (MOE) requirement, as well as a “continuous coverage” requirement that prohibits states from terminating most Medicaid enrollees’ coverage until after the public health emergency (PHE) ends, as determined by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

Who Is Eligible, and for How Much?In the 2020 tax year, 25 million working families and individuals in every state received the EITC.When filing taxes for 2023 (due in April 2024), working families...

People’s access to health care and other basic supports should not hinge on whether they meet a work-reporting requirement or successfully navigate a complicated system to either report work hours or claim an exemption.

The bill would only raise the debt ceiling through early next year, creating a new opportunity for House Republicans to use the next deadline for another round of hostage-taking.

The Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) provisions in House Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s debt-limit-and-cuts bill double down on TANF’s already expansive, rigid, and ineffective work...

Estimated Cuts in Discretionary Federal Aid Under McCarthy Bill ($ millions) Estimated cuts in FY24Estimated cuts over 10 years if applied to total discretionary spendingif defense and veteran's...

Some policymakers, such as those on the Republican Study Committee, have proposed to raise Social Security’s full retirement age to 70 and beyond.[1] Raising the retirement age cuts benefits for...

Speaker McCarthy hides the full House Republican fiscal agenda.

Without a doubt, adding work-reporting requirements to Medicaid would cause many low-income adults to lose coverage due to bureaucratic hurdles and would leave people without the health care they need, including life-saving medications, treatment to manage chronic conditions, and care for acute illnesses.

Much of SNAP’s success is due to its structure: it is designed so that everyone who is eligible can get benefits; it expands automatically to meet needs during tough times; and it focuses its benefits to the households with the least resources available to purchase groceries, assisting families with low incomes to obtain adequate nutrition, regardless of where they live.

Unemployment benefits provide critical support to jobless workers, their families and communities, and the U.S. economy. Yet today, the UI system is alarmingly unprepared for the next recession....

Social Security can pay full benefits for 11 more years but then faces a significant, though manageable, funding shortfall.

The trust funds are invested in Treasury securities that are just as sound as all other U.S. government securities, held by investors around the globe and regarded as being among the world’s safest investments.

Eighty-seven years after President Franklin Roosevelt signed the Social Security Act on August 14, 1935, Social Security remains one of the nation’s most successful, effective, and popular...

HHS announced its plans to make Medicaid and Affordable Care Act marketplace coverage available to people with Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals.

With unwinding underway, it is important for advocates to know what's required, what's prohibited, and what's recommended so that they can better advocate for a streamlined unwinding process that promotes continuity of coverage for eligible enrollees in their state.

President Biden’s budget for 2024 would continue efforts to reverse the squeeze on non-defense appropriations brought about by the Budget Control Act of 2011.

Some policymakers are proposing to expand Health Savings Accounts (HSAs) as a way to make health care more affordable. But HSAs do little or nothing to help uninsured people afford coverage, while...

A high-stakes tax debate will begin this year, accelerate through the presidential campaign, and likely culminate with legislative action in 2025.

State policymakers in recent years have increasingly sought to countermand local decision-making across a range of issues. Although states have long regulated the parameters of local authority within...