The annual Social Security cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) increased benefits by 2% this year. But Social Security recipients probably did not see much, if any, increase in net Social Security benefits, because of the ...
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Benefit Bulletin – Congress Plans To Make “Mandatory Spending” Cuts A Priority This Year
By Chairman Art "Coop" Cooper After making much to-do over budgets that don’t balance last year, the GOP went on to release tax plans last fall that would add an estimated $1.7 trillion to the federal debt, accordin ...
Q & A – what home health care benefits Medicare covers
Q: My 89-year-old mother was recently hospitalized and held for observation due to suspicious chest pain. She has been released, but my husband and I are considering moving her in with us. We are wondering what home h ...
Ask The Advisor – Help! My Disabled Son Is Getting Transferred To A Medicaid Managed Care Plan.
Q: My adult son has cerebral palsy and gets his healthcare through both Medicare and Medicaid. I recently received a letter from the state that his former fee-for-service coverage is ending and that he has been assigned ...
Congressional Corner – Rep. Charlie Crist (FL-13)
Congress Should Work Together to Strengthen Social Security By Representative Charlie Crist (FL-13) Social Security represents America’s promise that after a lifetime of hard work and paying into the system, senior ...
7 Recommendations For Social Security’s Disability Insurance Program
By Jessie Gibbons, Senior Policy Analyst For the past several years, Social Security’s Disability Insurance (DI) program has been facing financing challenges. In the fall of 2015, lawmakers took action to prevent ...
Best Ways to Save – Medical Expense Deductions For People 65 And Over Shrink In 2017
How To Increase Medical Tax Deductions for Older Taxpayers New IRS medical expense rules for people age 65 and over reduce the amount of medical expenses you can deduct for the 2017 tax year (which you file in 2018). ...
Benefit Bulletin
What To Do When You Can’t Afford Your Drug Costs By Chairman Art "Coop" Cooper If your prescription drug costs are outgrowing your ability to pay for your medicine, look into Medicare’s “Extra Help” program. The p ...
My Letter From Social Security
Thank You Anyway, I’ll Just Keep Working A Little Longer By Mary Johnson, Editor Most Americans are under-informed about their Social Security retirement choices, and they don’t mind saying so. The fact is the Soc ...
Why We Need A Better COLA
Social Security recipients will get 2% cost-of-living (COLA) adjustment effective January 2018. But despite it being the largest increase in five years, the news is being met with frustration from millions of retiree ho ...
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