Congress managed to pass a short-term fix to prevent a 19% benefit cut that was due to hit disabled Social Security beneficiaries by the end of this year. The legislation heads off the cut by temporarily transferring som ...
Daily Archives: January 6, 2016
Benefit Bulletin: January 2016
Still Working Because You Can’t Afford Your Healthcare Costs? Look Into Medicare Savings Programs More people are working far longer into retirement than they ever thought they would, and healthcare costs are a ma ...
Q & A: January 2016
Q: My husband will be retiring from a large California city police department after more than 35 years of service and entitled to a pension with spousal benefits for me. He did not work long enough under Social Security ...
Congressional Corner: COLA Tabulation Is Broken
Representative John J. “Jimmy” Duncan, Jr. (TN-2) For only the third time in history, nearly 60 million Americans are going without a Social Security cost-of-living raise this year. Why? Because the way the government ...
Legislative Update: January 2016
Older Americans Need a Raise! By Jessie Gibbons, Senior Policy Analyst By now, you’ve probably noticed that your Social Security benefit hasn’t increased with inflation as it usually does each January. That’s becau ...
FDA Threatens Access to Affordable Alternative Healthcare Options
Government studies show that 30% of older Americans regularly use various forms of alternative medicine. Alternative healthcare choices frequently include chiropractic treatments, massage, nutritional supplements, herbs, ...
Double-Digit Healthcare Cost Shock Has Budgets On Life Support
Mary Johnson, Editor How many of you under the age of 65 are counting the days until you become eligible for Medicare? Even though Medicare costs are plenty high, it’s far and away a much better deal for many adults u ...
What’s The Most Important Priority For Congress In Coming Months?
According to a recent TSCL poll, the majority of participants — 34% said a more fair and higher cost-of-living adjustment should be a top priority for Congress in the coming months. Twenty-nine percent said that passing ...
Congress Rolls Back Medicare Part B Increase of 52%, But No Emergency COLA
The recent battle in Congress over lifting the debt limit contained mostly good news and some not so good news, for disabled and retired Americans. The legislation rolled back an unprecedented 52% spike in Medicare Part ...
H.R. 4144, Seniors and Veterans Emergency (SAVE) Benefits Act
If signed into law, H.R. 4144 would give seniors and veterans an emergency 3.9 percent cost-of-living adjustment in 2016. Rep. Tammy Duckworth (IL-8) introduced H.R. 4144 on December 3, 2015. It has since been referre ...
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