Millions of Seniors Are Losing Benefits A new report has found that millions of senior Americans are missing out on over $20 billion in benefits that help pay for healthcare, prescriptions, food, and utilities. TSCL is ...
Daily Archives: April 25, 2012
Ask The Advisor: Congress’ 2012 Salary
Q: Did Members of Congress receive a COLA this year? If so did they get more than the 3.6% that seniors received? Is it true they don’t pay into Social Security? A: Congress did not receive any automatic pay adjustmen ...
Congressional Corner: Promises Made To Seniors Must Be Kept
By Representative Bill Posey (FL-15) Most seniors have spent their entire lives paying into a system that guarantees Social Security and Medicare benefits at retirement age, and the federal government must honor that ...
Best Ways To Save: Watch Those Hospital “Observation Stays”
Big bills for uncovered charges are surprising some seniors after some hospital stays that aren’t considered inpatient services by Medicare. The problem occurs when the hospital classifies your stay as “observation” whic ...
Legislative Update: April 2012
Medicare’s Doctor Payment Formula Breeds Uncertainty By Legislative Analyst, Jessie Gibbons Fourteen times in the last ten years, lawmakers have voted to override mandated pay cuts to doctors who accept Medicare pa ...
Social Security & Medicare Question: April 2012
Q: My father recently passed away. When I notified the bank as his legal power-of-attorney I was told that his Social Security check for the month in which he died, and any others received thereafter, must be returned. I ...
How “Undocumented” Workers Are Becoming Entitled To Social Security
Q: How can illegal immigrants get Social Security? They don't pay taxes! A: That’s a common misconception. According to estimates from the Social Security Administration’s Chief Actuary, three-quarters of “other-than- ...
Strange Medicare Cases
LA Pastor & Wife Sentenced For $14 Million Medicare Fraud By Mary Johnson When federal HEAT investigators started asking questions about the $6,000 wheel chairs for which he billed Medicare, Los Angeles pastor Ch ...
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