By Alex Moore New data from TSCL’s 2025 Lifestyle Survey suggests that many American seniors live in communities with poor access to key services and community goods. The study, which reported on data from a national ...
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Best Ways to Save: Automatic Coupon Finders
By Alex Moore Finding ways to save doesn’t have to be hard. Sure, sometimes it is, but many simple tricks exist that have more impact than you think. One example is automatic coupon finders for online shopping. These ...
When Can You Use a Special Enrollment Period to Make Changes to Your Health Plan?
By: Susan Stewart, Licensed Insurance Agent Every year, seniors must choose the Medicare Part D drug plan that best fits their healthcare needs and budget during what’s called the Annual Enrollment Period, or AEP. Th ...
The Future of Social Security Just Got a Bit Darker
By Edward Cates, Chairman, TSCL If you’re a regular Advisor reader, you already know that Social Security has money problems: Because the agency pays out more in benefits than it brings in via tax revenue every year, ...
Age-Based Discrimination Goes Far Beyond the Workplace
By Alex Moore Ageism. It’s a nasty word about a nasty phenomenon: Discriminating against people due to nothing more than how many years they’ve spent on earth. We often hear about it in the workplace. However, ageism ...
Best Ways to Save: Audit Your Subscriptions
By Alex Moore The average American spends approximately $1,080 per year on subscriptions, with around $200 allocated to subscriptions that they don’t even use. That’s according to the 2nd Annual Subscription Survey, a ...
Other Insurance and Medicare
By Susan Stewart, Licensed Insurance Agent When you have other insurance (like a group health plan, retiree health, or Medicaid) in addition to Medicare, it’s essential to know the rules for whether Medicare or your o ...
FBI Puts a Stop to $227 Million Medicare Fraud Scheme
By Alex Moore According to court documents and an FBI press release, the defendants are accused of submitting false claims to Medicare for the reimbursement of over-the-counter COVID-19 test kits, which were supposedl ...
New TSCL Research Shows How Much We Need Social Security
By Edward Cates, Chairman, TSCL According to a new study published by TSCL this June, 21.8 million seniors, or approximately 39 percent of the 55.8 million seniors counted in the 2020 Census, depend on Social Security ...
Medicare Advantage Terminology
By Susan Stewart, Licensed Insurance Agent When I speak with Medicare beneficiaries, I notice a lot of confusion around the meaning of certain words and phrases related to Medicare Advantage plans. Let’s clear a few t ...
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