Congress Off to a Slow Start Congress is off to a slower start this year, even as critical issues that soon must be dealt with remain unsettled. This seems to be especially true in the House of Representatives, which ...
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Retirees Worried Their COLA Will Fall Short This Year
A new survey by The Senior Citizens League (TSCL) suggests that fifty-four percent of older consumers remain unconvinced that their 8.7 percent Social Security cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) will keep pace with rising ...
Will There be Cuts to Social Security and Medicare?
This is one of the hottest topics in Washington right now. Because it’s so important to seniors, we want to recap the issue for you. The crisis has come about because the federal government will sometime in the coming ...
Free Vaccines for Seniors
One of the little-known provisions of President Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act that Congress passed last fall requires all adult vaccines covered under Medicare Part D, like the one for shingles, be covered at no cost i ...
January 2023
This is our first update of the activities in Washington, D.C., regarding the issues of particular importance to seniors in 2023. As in the past, we will cover the actions of Congress as well as the Biden Administratio ...
Inflation – COLA Update
Press Briefing 01.12.2023 ...
The Social Security and Medicare Advisor – 23.01
The Social Security and Medicare Advisor - January/February 2023 ...
December 2022
Last Update for 2022 This is our last update for 2022. Congress has finished its business for the year and is out of session until the new Congress convenes in January of 2023. Thank you for the ongoing privilege of c ...
Study Shows Hearing Aids Can Reduce Risk of Dementia
As we age, seniors face the reality that dementia is a possibility and that, in some respects, whether we get it or not is out of our hands. Simply getting older is the biggest risk factor, followed by genetics. The g ...
Covid-19 Cases on the Increase
Yes, we are all sick of covid and want to get back to living our lives in a normal way. However, as others have said, covid is not done with us. Although not nearly as severe as in the past couple of years, covid infe ...
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