By Daisy Brown, TSCL Legislative Liaison Q: What Does TSCL Support To Make Medicare And Social Security Benefits More Adequate? A: Keeping Medicare affordable while providing effective, high-quality care often tops TSC ...
Benefit Bulletin: December 2022
Edward Cates, Chairman of the Board, TSCL Q: How Could the COLA Affect Medicare Costs? A: Rising Social Security income due to the COLAs will provide some greatly needed relief from rising prices. But the increased i ...
FAQ: Taxation of Social Security Benefits
By Mary Johnson, editor Q: How Will Inflation Affect Your Taxes? A: With inflation at historic levels, it’s helpful to know about two important inflation- related factors of our tax code that affect what older (and dis ...
FAQ: Medicare Part B Costs
Q: How Will Part B Premium Costs Change In 2023? A: Most healthcare costs are expected to continue to climb from 2022 - 2023, but there is some good news. The Medicare Part B premium is going down in 2023. Medicare P ...
FAQ: COLA
Q: Will Your COLA Be Enough To Keep Up With Rising Prices? A: Social Security beneficiaries will receive an 8.7% cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) in January, the highest that almost every beneficiary alive today has eve ...
Medicare Will Cap Insulin At $35 Per Month, But Is Your Prescription Still Covered By Your Plan? Better Check!
(Washington, DC) – The recently enacted Inflation Reduction Act requires Medicare Part D plans to cap insulin costs at $35 per month per covered prescription starting in 2023, but to get the savings, diabetic Medicare be ...
New Senate Report Says Medicare Advantage Ads Mislead Seniors
TSCL has been warning our supporters that all the ads for Medicare Advantage plans that are seen on TV, heard on radio, seen online, or in mail sent to homes are from insurance companies that want to sell their policies. ...
Senator Manchin Says Deal is Needed to “Shore Up” Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security
West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin said last week that Congress needs to deal with the nation’s “crippling debt” by making changes to shore up Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and other programs he said are “going ban ...
Senators from both Parties Want to Stop Medicare Payment Cuts
In a related story, a bipartisan group of 46 Senators sent a letter to the Senate leadership asking them to address looming Medicare payment cuts to providers before the new year, when they would take effect. “It is e ...
Congress Plans Post-Election Legislation
As has been the practice for years now, no matter which party controls Congress, it failed to pass the legislation that is needed to fund the government for the next fiscal year, which started Oct. 1. That means that ...
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