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Policymakers should explore new and innovative approaches to address unemployment.
Workers should be eligible for full workers’ compensation or unemployment benefits regardless of age and other sources of income, such as pensions.
Older workers may choose to or need to continue working. However, they face discrimination based on age, especially in layoffs and hiring.
Policymakers should explore new, more consumer-centered systems for providing low-income assistance.
Income earned through employment is the foundation of most people’s savings and retirement income.
These principles reflect AARP’s vision for reforming the financing and delivery of long-term services and supports (LTSS) to promote consumer independence, choice, dignity, autonomy, and privacy.
Congress and state legislatures should ensure that all lawfully present non-citizen residents who qualify for essential low-income benefits have access to them.
Asset limits for public-benefit programs should be increased to ensure that they do not discourage saving. These limits should then be indexed to keep up with inflation.
U.S. House members and state representatives are elected by district. Those districts are updated each decade after the census in a process known as redistricting.