By Representative Tim Walberg (MI-7) Every day approximately ten thousand people reach their retirement age. Many have spent a lifetime working to care for their families and save for retirement all while paying fede ...
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Legislative Update: March 2014
Two Provisions That Can Reduce Or Eliminate Social Security Benefits By Jessie Gibbons, Legislative Assistant The odds are high that someone you know is receiving lower Social Security benefits than they deserve. ...
Benefit Bulletin: March 2014
Obamacare Medicaid Expansion Creates New Inequities For Seniors Medicaid, the state and federal program that provides healthcare for low-income Americans, is undergoing a massive expansion with the start of the Afford ...
Is Someone Using Your Medicare Number To Steal Drugs?
By Mary Johnson, editor You get them whenever you visit a doctor, or fill a prescription — Medicare's "explanation of benefits" forms. Often perplexing, many people never review them, let alone, try to figure them ou ...
How Social Security Calculates Benefits Based On Illegal Work
President Obama and House leadership are discussing support of a more "limited approach" to immigration reform. Under discussion is a plan to grant illegal immigrants limited legal status by providing the right to work ...
Again? COLAs May Face Another Round Of Cuts In Debt Limit Battle
Debt cutters may be back with more demands to "chain" cost-of-living adjustments (COLAs), along with plans that would make seniors pay higher Medicare costs. The government's new 2014 federal budget agreement cut COLAs ...
Social Security & Medicare Questions: Retroactive Benefits
Q: Can you explain the rules about working after starting Social Security, and retroactive benefits? My older brother received 6 months in retroactive benefits when he filed for benefits after turning 66. I turn 66, m ...
Ask The Advisor: Totalization Agreement with Mexico
What is the status of the Totalization Agreement With Mexico? Q: What happened with the U.S. Social Security Totalization Agreement with Mexico? Has TSCL learned anything from those Freedom of Information Act reques ...
Legislative Update: February 2014
Another Broken Obamacare Promise – This One Hits Medicare By Jessie Gibbons, Legislative Assistant Back in 2010, before Obamacare became law, the President made the following promise to the public: "If you like you ...
Congressional Corner: Reduce Deficit In A Balanced Way, Not On The Backs Of Seniors
By Representative Cheri Bustos (IL-17) Forty-nine years ago, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed Medicare into law and by doing so made a solemn agreement with every single American. Simply put, if you work hard and p ...
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