Over-diagnosis: Medicare Preventive Services Don’t Always Make Sense For Everyone Medicare covers most, or all, of the cost of many preventive services, like annual mammograms and PSA tests for prostate cancer. But t ...
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Congressional Corner: SNAP Simplification Act Would Reduce Burdens on America’s Elderly and Disabled Community
By Representative Al Lawson (FL-05) Many of our nation’s seniors live on fixed incomes and struggle to afford everyday expenses. Sadly, a large number of these individuals are also disabled. There are several exis ...
Legislative Update: April 2018
Why Mothers and Wives Can Receive Less in Social Security Madison West, Legislative Assistant Many social and economic factors work against women who are family caregivers and mothers that can lower their Social S ...
Benefit Bulletin: April 2018
Easier Said Than Done: Public Unconvinced That Medicaid Spending Should Be Cut By Chairman Art "Coop" Cooper About one in five older and disabled Medicare beneficiaries has income so low that their state Medicaid p ...
Medicare Tops For U.S. Healthcare But Lags Other Nations
By Mary Johnson, Editor Medicare is highly popular among retired and disabled beneficiaries. But according to a study of international health systems, older Americans are in worse health and pay more for their heal ...
Medicare Starts Mailing New Cards In April — Beware Of Scams!
Start watching the mail for your new Medicare card. The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services will start mailing the cards this month and plans to replace all existing Medicare cards over the next year — by April of ...
18% Of Workers Pay No Social Security Taxes On Earnings Over $128,400
Most working people pay Social Security taxes on every dollar earned and many pay more in Social Security taxes than in federal income taxes. Yet nearly one out of five workers — some 18% — pay no Social Security taxes ...
How Tax Reform Affects People 65 And Over For 2017 Tax Season
Tax legislation enacted at the end of last year makes significant changes that touch virtually all taxpayers. While most of the new provisions have consequences for the 2018 tax year and thereafter, there are at least a ...
Congressional Leaders Call For Cuts to Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid
Shortly before passing tax reform into law, Republicans announced plans to go after “entitlement spending” in 2018 to reduce the federal debt. Passage of the tax bill is estimated to increase the federal deficit by $1.5 ...
How A Provision of Tax Reform Increases Chances of Lower COLAs
By Mary Johnson, editor The main source of funding for Social Security comes from the payroll taxes that workers pay into the program. But there are two other sources of revenues: taxes that retirees pay on their Soc ...
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