Getting your household budget headed in the right direction after more than two years of historic inflation is priority number one for retired Americans and TSCL. Roughly half the participants in TSCL’s most recent Senio ...

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Emergency SNAP Benefits Ended, But Older Americans Still Need to Eat. TSCL Working For $1,400 Stimulus Payment By Daisy Brown, TSCL Legislative Liaison A temporary boost to SNAP benefits (food stamps) that was put ...

Edward Cates, Chairman of the Board, TSCL 58% of Older Taxpayers Say Income Thresholds for Taxation of Social Security Benefits Should Be Adjusted You said it! We recently learned that 58% of older taxpayers think ...

By Mary Johnson, Editor Are you following the debate over the debt limit? Congress recently agreed to keep its hands off Social Security and Medicare. But it would be premature — even dangerous for your benefits — to ...

Q: I keep seeing information that recent legislation will lower the cost of my prescription drugs, but I haven’t seen much of any change yet, other than the $35 cap on insulin costs which is helping a friend of mine. Wha ...

Does Medicare Provide a Grocery Benefit? Q: I keep seeing ads for a Medicare grocery benefit.  How do I qualify? A: We keep seeing the ads too.  Unfortunately, Medicare does not provide money for groceries, but so ...

Q: What portion of your total household budget do you spend on healthcare costs including Medicare premiums and out of pocket? A: It turns out to be a lot more than our government’s measurement of inflation accounts f ...

TSCL recently confirmed that a Medicare tax that became effective in 2013 never made it into the Medicare Hospital Insurance Trust Fund. Tens of billions in revenues wound up going into the U.S. General Budget Fund inste ...