National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare
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What it says it does
THE COMMITTEE HAS TWO PRIMARY PURPOSES: (A) BRINGING ABOUT CIVIC BETTERMENT AND SOCIAL IMPROVEMENT, AND PROMOTING THE COMMON GOOD AND GENERAL WELFARE OF THE PEOPLE BY SUPPORTING THE CONTINUATION AND IMPROVEMENT OF THE AMERICAN SOCIAL SECURITY AND MEDICARE SYSTEMS AND WORKING TO MAINTAIN THE INTEGRITY OF THE FEDERAL OLD AGE AND SURVIVORS, DISABILITY AND HOSPITAL TRUST FUNDS; AND (B) EDUCATING THE PUBLIC ON SUBJECTS BENEFICIAL TO THE COMMUNITY INCLUDING THE IMPORTANCE OF AMERICA'S SOCIAL SECURITY SYSTEM.
- Income
- $7.6 million
- Spending
- $8.1 million
- Employees
- 9
- Volunteers
- 7
- Highest pay
- $450,469, president & ceo
Source: Form 990 for the year ending March 31, 2026, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. How we rate
Financial health
We do not score finances when yearly spending is very small or the return has too little detail. The ratios stop meaning much at that size.
Source: Form 990 for the year ending March 31, 2026, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. How we rate
Governance
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Source: Form 990 for the year ending March 31, 2026, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. How we rate
Impact evidence
Describes programs. Its tax return describes what it does but we have found no measurable results in it.
Programs described in its return (2)
- $3.0 million spent. The National Committee's 2026 fiscal year was during the 119th Congress (2025-2026) and the first and second years of the Trump Administration. Therefore, most of our legislative and regulatory advocacy was aimed at opposing harmful legislation and calling attention to the mass staff reductions and mayhem caused by the so-called "Department of Government Efficiency" at agencies and programs important to older Americans. In addition, we begin increasing our political activity to help elect "senior friendly" majorities to the House and Senate in the 2026 election. The National Committee focused our legislative advocacy, communications and direct mail to members at opposing the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (P.L. 119-21) (also known as the "Big Ugly Bill") which cut Medicaid and SNAP benefits by over $1 trillion to partly pay for tax cuts that mainly benefited the wealthy and large corporations. We reminded National Committee members that "near seniors" age 50-64 who are enrolled in Medicaid or the ACA help to control Medicare costs, but those costs would go up if Medicaid benefits were cut and the ACA's "enhanced premium tax credit" (EPTC) was not extended. In addition, we educated members of Congress that most long-term care is paid for by Medicaid and cutting the program by $1 trillion would harm nursing homes and home and community-based services. Unfortunately, the Big Ugly bill was signed into law on July 1, 2025, and the ACA EPTC was allowed to expire on December 31, 2025. Before and after the start of our fiscal year on April 1, 2025, the National Committee fought for adequate discretionary funding for the Social Security Administration's operating budget, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the Older Americans Act programs and other agencies and programs key to the well-being of seniors. Although we worked in coalition with the Leadership Council of Aging Organizations (LCAO) to persuade Congress not to eliminate several key programs, the enacted appropriations legislation flat-funded or cut most agencies and programs important to older Americans. The National Committee focused public attention on the chaos DOGE created throughout the federal government - but especially at the Social Security Administration (SSA), the Department of Health and Human Service's Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, and the Administration on Community Living through questionable and illegal mass layoffs and forced retirements. With regard to SSA, the 13 percent staff cut was the largest in the agency's history, and has forced the SSA to triage operations, moving staff from one part of SSA to another as public demands reached critical levels: some days answering phones, other days staffing field offices, with only a bare minimum of training to adequately meet the new job requirements. As a result of the overall shortage in staff, filling holes in one critical area inevitably left gaps in others, and the consequences of this staff inadequacy have been felt by consumers who continue to report alarming delays and logjams as they attempt to access their earned benefits. More than half of seniors and survivors who scheduled an appointment with an SSA field office to file an application for benefits waited more than a month until their appointment. More than 800,000 people have been in a queue awaiting an initial decision on their application for disability benefits, and it has taken SSA more than 6 months, on average, to make a decision - twice as long as in the past. These long waits can be particularly harmful for people of color, low-income applicants, and others who on average are less likely to have savings or other resources to fall back on. Thousands have died while waiting for a decision on whether they are eligible for disability benefits, and many more have endured years without income, in the process often exhausting their life savings and even losing their homes. While no field offices have officially been shuttered in the chaos, reports abound of 'ghost' field offices where staffing levels are low or non-existent - leaving only a hollow shell where previously a robust office operated. In response to this mismanagement, the National Committee continued to be a co-plaintiff - along with four other groups which represent Social Security beneficiaries -- in a federal lawsuit against SSA, and DOGE. Part of the NC's responsibility as a co-plaintiff is to vet and refer beneficiaries and current and former SSA staff that have been harmed by DOGE activities at SSA to attorneys with the lead plaintiff - Justice in Aging. Coalitions/Relations with Other Nonprofit Aging Organizations The Leadership Council of Aging Organizations (LCAO) is a coalition of 67 national nonprofit organizations concerned with the well-being of America's older population and committed to representing their interests in the policy-making arena. The National Committee and four of the other LCAO's member organizations take turns chairing the coalition for one-year terms. Max Richtman began his term chairing LCAO at the end of the June 4, 2025 meeting and will preside over the coalition until adjournment of the June 3, 2026 meeting. During the National Committee's tenure, LCAO has sent letters to Congress urging them to oppose the Big Ugly Bill, adequately fund programs and agencies critical to seniors in the FY 2026 and 2027 appropriations bills, extend the Affordable Care Act Enhanced Premium Tax Credits, approve the SSI Restoration Act, and reestablish the House Aging Committee. The coalition also sent a letter to the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services urging them to ensure caregivers are considered employed for purposes of the Medicaid work requirement in the Big Ugly Bill. A major responsibility of the LCAO chair is to hold monthly coalition meetings which includes legislative and regulatory reports by standing committees, action on joint and chair's letters, press releases and coalition policy. In addition,
- $2.4 million spent. EDUCATION: Media Interviews GRP staff were interviewed by multiple press organizations, including Wichita Eagle, Newsweek, Think Advisor, CNBC, CBS News and Investopedia. Volunteer Engagement The National Committee held monthly volunteer calls with activists and responded to volunteer requests for materials, literature, and information to promote engagement. In 2025 and 2026, the number of volunteers that participated in the monthly call grew, due to continued concerns raised by the new administration and Congress. We also have added more volunteers who were part of the grassroots effort to repeal the Social Security Government Pension Offset and Windfall Elimination Provision. GRP staff worked with NCPSSM volunteers and activists to encourage them to call, email and visit their members of Congress to urge them to oppose any Social Security, Medicare or Medicaid benefit cuts and the proposed fiscal commission. Our national volunteers held grassroots events and performed community outreach in New Hampshire, Florida, Colorado, Connecticut, Minnesota Alaska and California. Policy Papers National Committee policy papers: * April 2025: Viewpoint: Improving the Medicare Home Health Benefit * May 2025: Fact Sheet: How Seniors Can Protect Themselves from the Chaos at the Social Security Administration * June 2025: Viewpoint: The Fiscal Commission Act: Greasing the Wheels to Cut Social Security and Medicare Without Political Accountability, Viewpoint: Analysis of the 2025 Medicare Trustees Report * July 2025: Viewpoint: Analysis of the 2025 Social Security Trustees Report, Viewpoint: Expanding Medicare to Provide Dental, Vision and Hearing Care * August 2025: Viewpoint: Five Big, Bad Provision for Seniors in the Republican's New Tax Law * September 2025: Viewpoint: Raising the Social Security Retirement Age: A Cut in Benefits for Future Retirees * March: 2026: Viewpoint: Meeting the Demand for Lower Drug Prices in Medicare, Viewpoint: The Inflation Reduction Act: Drug Pricing Provisions, Viewpoint: Understanding Medigap Policies, Viewpoint: How the "One Big Beautiful Bill Act" Slashed Medicaid Congressional Meetings The National Committee met with the following members of Congress and/or their staff: * April 2025-March 2026: Met nearly weekly with the staff of House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) and Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden (D-OR). * April 2025: Met with the staff of House Agriculture Ranking Member Angie Craig (D-MN), Representative Norma Torres (D-CA), Katherine Clark (D-MA), Suzan DelBene (D-WA), Suzanne Bonamici (D-OR), Andrea Salinas (D-OR), Val Hoyle (D-OR) and several Democratic Senators at the Democratic Policy and Steering Committee meeting. * May 2025: Met with the Democratic staff of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, Senate Democratic Health Care legislative staff and Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) and Representatives Suhas Subramanyam (D-VA) and April McClain Delaney (D-MD). * June 2025: Met with Senator Charles Grassley (D-IA) and Representative Yassamin Ansari (D-AZ) * July 2025: Met with Representatives John Larson (D-CT), James Clyburn (D-SC), and Janelle Bynum (D-OR). Met with the staff of Representatives Gil Cisneros (D-CA) and Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL). * August 2025: Met with Representatives Suhas Subramanyam (D-VA) and Angie Craig (D-MN). Met with staff of Rep. Robert Aderholdt (R-AL) and Dave Min (D-CA). * September 2025: Met with House Ways and Means Democratic staff. * October 2025: Met with Representative Mike Levin (D-CA). * November 2025: Met with Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), Representatives Brendan Boyle (D-PA) and Emilia Sykes (D-OH). Also met with Representatives John Larson (D-CT) and Robin Kelly's (D-IL) staff. * December 2025: Met with Representative John Larson (D-CT) and several Democratic Senators at the Democratic Policy and Steering Committee winter reception. * January 2025: Met with Representatives John Larson (D-CT) and Mike Levin (D-CA). * March 2025: Met with Senators Rick Scott (R-FL), Kristen Gillibrand (D-NY), Andy Kim (D-NJ) and Elizabeth Warren (D-MA). Also met with several Democratic members of the House Committee on Ways and Means. Official Congressional Hearings/Events * April 2025: Max Richtman spoke at the Senate Democratic Policy and Steering Committee meeting in the Capitol Building. * June 2025: Dan Adcock spoke at the town hall meeting held by Representative Yassamin Ansari (D-AZ) in Pheonix, AZ * August 2025: Dan Adcock spoke at the town hall meeting held by Representatives Suhas Subramanyam (D-VA) in Manassas, VA and he spoke at the press conference held by Representative Angie Craig (D-MN) in Hasting, MN. * March 2025: Dan Adcock spoke at a hearing on the Social Security retirement earnings test at a hearing of the Senate Aging Committee. Congressional and Administration Letters and Statements The National Committee wrote the following letters to members of Congress: * April 2025: NCPSSM Letter House Vote No HR 22 Save Act, NCPSSM Letter to Senate Opposing Concurrent Budget Resolution, NCPSSM Letter Supporting Representative John Larson Field Office & Privacy Bills, NCPSSM Letter to House Opposing Concurrent Budget Resolution, NCPSSM Letter Supporting Hassan-Grassley Identity Theft Act, NCPSSM Letter Supporting H. Res. 344. * May 2025: NCPSSM Letter to House Agriculture Committee Opposing SNAP Cuts, NCPSSM Letter to House Energy and Commerce Committee Opposing Medicaid Cuts, NCPSSM Letter Supporting Social Security Emergency Inflation Relief Act, NCPSSM Endorsement of Medicare and Social Security Fair Share Act, NCPSSM Letter to House Opposing HR 1 FY 2025 Budget Reconciliation Bill, * June 2025: NCPSSM Letter to Senate Opposing House-Passed FY 2025 Budget Reconciliation Bill, NCPSSM Letter Opposing Senate FY 2025 Budget Reconciliation Bill * July 2025: NCPSSM Letter Opposing Senate FY 2025 Budget Reconciliation Bill, NCPSSM Letter to House Opposing Senate-Passed HR
Source: Form 990 for the year ending March 31, 2026, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. How we rate
Legitimacy checks
Is it registered with the IRS? Passed.
Listed in the IRS master file of tax-exempt organizations as a 501(c)(4) social welfare organization.
Source: Exempt Organizations Business Master File, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
Has the IRS revoked its tax-exempt status? Passed.
Not on the IRS automatic revocation list.
Source: Automatic revocation of exemption list, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
Are donations tax-deductible? Caution.
The IRS master file records contributions to this 501(c)(4) social welfare organization as not deductible.
Source: Exempt Organizations Business Master File, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
Is it keeping up with its IRS filings? Passed.
Most recent return on file covers the year ending March 2026.
Source: Exempt Organizations Business Master File, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
How long has it been tax-exempt? Passed.
Recognized by the IRS since June 1984.
Source: Exempt Organizations Business Master File, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
Is it in good standing with state regulators? Passed.
Not on California's list of charities barred from soliciting. Other states are not yet checked.
Source: May Not Operate or Solicit for Charitable Purposes list, California Attorney General, Registry of Charities and Fundraisers, file dated October 21, 2026.
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