Is Congress Exempt From Obamacare? Q: Can you tell me how Congress is getting their health insurance this year? Our health plan got canceled and we had to enroll through the federal exchange. My husband and I now p ...
Daily Archives: March 4, 2014
Social Security & Medicare Questions: Benefits on Deceased Ex
Q: My ex-wife passed away recently. I'm 61 and still working. Would I qualify for any Social Security benefits based on her account? A: If your late ex-spouse was entitled to a Social Security retirement ...
Best Ways to Save: March 2014
Are You Due a Tax Refund? ID Thieves May Get It Before You Do Waiting for a tax refund? More Americans were victims of tax refund identity theft in the first six months of 2013 than in all of 2012. Identity thieves ...
Congressional Corner: The Social Security and Medicare Lock-Box Act
By Representative Tim Walberg (MI-7) Every day approximately ten thousand people reach their retirement age. Many have spent a lifetime working to care for their families and save for retirement all while paying fede ...
Legislative Update: March 2014
Two Provisions That Can Reduce Or Eliminate Social Security Benefits By Jessie Gibbons, Legislative Assistant The odds are high that someone you know is receiving lower Social Security benefits than they deserve. ...
Benefit Bulletin: March 2014
Obamacare Medicaid Expansion Creates New Inequities For Seniors Medicaid, the state and federal program that provides healthcare for low-income Americans, is undergoing a massive expansion with the start of the Afford ...
Is Someone Using Your Medicare Number To Steal Drugs?
By Mary Johnson, editor You get them whenever you visit a doctor, or fill a prescription — Medicare's "explanation of benefits" forms. Often perplexing, many people never review them, let alone, try to figure them ou ...
How Social Security Calculates Benefits Based On Illegal Work
President Obama and House leadership are discussing support of a more "limited approach" to immigration reform. Under discussion is a plan to grant illegal immigrants limited legal status by providing the right to work ...
Again? COLAs May Face Another Round Of Cuts In Debt Limit Battle
Debt cutters may be back with more demands to "chain" cost-of-living adjustments (COLAs), along with plans that would make seniors pay higher Medicare costs. The government's new 2014 federal budget agreement cut COLAs ...
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