By Mary Johnson, editor A new rule recently announced by the U.S. Food and Drug administration (FDA) approved the sale of over the counter (OTC) hearing aids for people with mild to moderate hearing loss. OTC hearing ...

Q: Can you confirm whether Congress changed the age for required minimum distributions from retirement accounts? I am currently age 71 and will turn age 72 in April of 2023. A: It was easy to miss, but yes, budget leg ...

One of the most frequent questions that TSCL receives in our meetings with Members of Congress and from news outlets is “How has inflation impacted older households?”  To find out, we posed the following question to over ...

By Daisy Brown, TSCL Legislative Liaison          It’s been two years since prices started a stratospheric climb in 2021 at a pace that hasn’t been seen in more than 40 years. Although Social Security recipients rece ...

Edward Cates, Chairman of the Board, TSCL It’s one of our biggest pet peeves, and a lot of you share it — the taxation of our Social Security benefits. In fact, 57% of participants in recent TSCL surveys report that t ...

Waste, fraud, and abuse is estimated to have cost Medicare $47 billion in 2022 according to a report from the U.S Government Accountability Office. That’s an astonishing $721 for every Medicare beneficiary. Since benefic ...

The chance of problems affecting the timely funding of Social Security benefits appears to be growing this year. The Republican majority in the House pushed through a new set of rules which would make it harder to raise ...

By Mary Johnson, Editor Some financial experts theorize that retirees can look forward to an improvement in buying power this year. As the rate of inflation falls, that should mean the buying power of Social Security ...