What Happened To The Effort To Add Dental Benefits To Medicare? Q: I recently had to get a tooth extracted. The practice that performed the oral surgery required me to sign a waiver stating that they do not particip ...
Legislative Update: September 2022
60% Of Older Adults Support Two Year Suspension of Tax on Social Security Benefits By Doug Osborne, TSCL Legislative Liaison TSCL is gearing up to ask Congress to enact legislation that would protect Social Securit ...
Benefit Bulletin: September/October 2022
Medicare Given Authority to Negotiate Drug Prices By Rick Delaney, Chairman of the Board, TSCL Legislation that will cut prescription drug costs by allowing Medicare to negotiate prices was recently signed into law ...
“Elder Index” Shows True Cost of Aging And That Other Sources of Income Are Needed in Retirement
A relatively little-known measure of the cost of living of older Americans — the Elder Index developed by researchers at the Gerontology Institute of Massachusetts-Boston — recently made news after researchers found that ...
How Medicare Spending Can Be Cut To Help With Inflation
As the Federal Reserve raises interest rates which affects the cost of borrowing money, the cost of the government’s debt is rising. That in turn is having an impact on government spending, as well as the balances of th ...
2023 COLA Could Be One of Highest Ever Paid —8.7%
By Mary Johnson, editor Social Security beneficiaries can look forward to receiving one the highest cost-of-living adjustments (COLA) ever paid in the history of the program next year. Based on consumer price index d ...
Ask the Advisor: August 2022
How Did Mortality From COVID-19 Pandemic Affect Social Security Finances? Q: I recently read that the Social Security Trust Fund picked up an extra year of solvency. Was that due to the high mortality rate in senior ...
Legislative Update: August 2022
TSCL Endorses Legislation That Would Boost Benefits $2,400 per Year By Doug Osborne, TSCL Legislative Liaison Social Security recipients have been hit hard by inflation this year. Inflation is eating into the buyi ...
Benefit Bulletin: August 2022
Medicare Won’t Issue Refunds For Part B Premiums This Year Rick Delaney, TSCL Chairman of the Board Here’s a recent email that we received from a TSCL supporter in the state of Washington: I must have missed TSC ...
“Data Mining” Scheme To Overcharge Medicare Leads to Crackdown
Data analytics firms and “data mining” are the center of a broad government crackdown on abusive Medicare Advantage overcharges according to the U.S. Department of Justice. In California, for example, a health system sc ...
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