By Mary Johnson, editor I hope this issue of The Social Security and Medicare Advisor provokes thought and gets you thinking about how to get more involved in efforts to strengthen and protect our Social Security and ...

How TSCL Is Working For You In 2024 By Daisy Brown, TSCL Legislative Liaison Most of the older Americans who take our surveys aren’t very confident about the future of their retirement. Less than one out of five ad ...

Edward Cates, Chairman of the Board, TSCL Momentum is growing to fix two provisions of Social Security law that reduce the Social Security benefits of public employees such as firemen, teachers, postal workers, police ...

My Part D Premium Went Up By 48%.  Does Medicare Allow This? Q: My Part D plan premium went up by 48% in 2024. I remember reading that the new Inflation Reduction Act restricted the amount that our drug plan premiums ...

Although Medicare often comes with high out-of-pocket costs, you might be able to mitigate the hit to your finances by itemizing those medical expenses on your federal income taxes to lower your tax bill. Taxpayers are a ...

The number of older Americans who pay federal income tax on their Social Security benefits is rapidly growing, according to recent surveys by TSCL. Twenty-three percent of participants in TSCL’s latest Retirement Survey ...

A $1,400 stimulus check for each Social Security recipient is a top legislative goal for TSCL in 2024. While hundreds of thousands of older Americans have signed our petitions in support of such legislation, some critics ...

More than two-thirds of older adults participating in TSCL’s latest Retirement Survey say their monthly budget for essential items such as housing, food, and prescription drugs was 10 percent higher than in the fall of 2 ...