5 Ways To Make Extra Income In Retirement Retirees who depend on Social Security and live on a fixed income need to budget carefully. Here are 5 ways to bring in extra cash in retirement: Boost your Social Security ...
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Ask The Advisor: June 2015
How Can I Budget For Healthcare Expenses When I Don’t Know What They Will Be? Q: I was looking forward to saving some money on premiums when I started Medicare. Boy was I surprised when my doctor discovered a new heal ...
Social Security & Medicare Questions: June 2015
Q: My prescription drug plan denied coverage on a medication to control a severe chronic health problem. Over the years I’ve tried other treatments but they are either ineffective, or had dangerous side effects, and I ha ...
Odds Are Growing For Zero COLA In 2016
The plunge in gasoline prices, in recent months, sent the consumer price index (CPI) into a nose-dive. That deflation is expected to make a big dent in the Social Security income of 56 million people next year, according ...
How Social Security Can Be Strengthened Without Cutting Benefits
In the debate over Social Security’s funding, much of the debate has focused on benefit cuts. A recent survey by the National Academy of Social Insurance (NASI), however, shows that benefit cuts aren’t supported by a lar ...
Two Major Ways Obama Immigration Action Could Impact Federal Benefit Programs
A U.S. federal judge has temporarily blocked President Obama’s immigration program that defers deportation for almost 5 million illegal immigrants. Responding to a lawsuit filed by 26 states, the judge did not rule on th ...
Dear Patient, In Medicare’s Effort To Improve Quality, The Doctor Won’t See You Now
By Mary Johnson The Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) recently announced a bold new model to save money and improve healthcare quality by changing the way the government pays doctors. The Administration ...
Benefit Bulletin: May 2015
Obama’s Medicare Proposals — What Obama Giveth, Obama Taketh Away President Obama’s fiscal 2016 budget contains proposals that would cut Medicare spending by $423 billion over the next ten years. The cuts would come o ...
Legislative Update: May 2015
No Consensus In Congress For Social Security Disability Program Funding By Jessie Gibbons, Legislative Assistant In 2016, just one year from now, Social Security’s Disability Insurance (DI) trust fund will become i ...
What Retirement Cost Is Hardest To Cover?
A recent TSCL poll indicates that retirees are split between housing and healthcare costs as the hardest to cover. Forty percent of respondents said that housing, heat and utilities were hardest. Another 40% said healthc ...
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