William Benson

Above: Bill co-presents a session about advocacy and public policy at the 2025 National Service Coordinator Conference. 

William Benson,
Principal, Health Benefits ABCs

Bill Benson has worked in the aging field for more than four decades at the local, state and national levels including as a State LTC Ombudsman, Senior Congressional Staffer in both the U.S. Senate and the House of Representatives, and a political appointee at the U.S. Administration on Aging including as the Acting Assistant Secretary for Aging. Since 1998 he has run a successful consulting practice in aging/human services and public health serving dozens of clients from the government, not-for-profit and proprietary sectors. He provides public policy services for AASC. 

Bill is co-founder and President of the International Association for Indigenous Aging focusing on American Indian elders. For the past 19 years he has led conversations with Holocaust survivors before live audiences at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C.