Tag: Congress

social security card and money

Now that COVID is fading, researchers looking back on the financial assistance passed by Congress during the pandemic are concluding that it helped millions of Americans get through a time of unprecedented distress.   That the assistance would be adequate was not obvious in the midst of the economic turmoil in 2020 as COVID unfolded…

Illustration of the 2021 federal stimulus check from the IRS with cash and social security card

With the prospect that Congress may fail to raise the debt ceiling and the possibility that Social Security benefits may not be paid on a timely basis, one obvious question is whether it matters if people get their check a few days, a week, or a couple of weeks late.  From my reading of t…