Forget Medicare’s “Free” Annual Wellness Exam, We Need Medicare to Cover Annual Physicals To be our nation’s largest healthcare program, Medicare doesn’t always operate in a way that makes sense.  True fact: Medicare ...

Should We Be Looking for a Live-In Nurse, or Nursing Home Care? Q:  A family member who lives alone told me that she had stage IV colon cancer.  Recently, she had to go to the emergency room and was hospitalized for s ...

How Much of Your Retirement Income is Taxable? Taxes on retirement income take many retirees by surprise, and recent tax changes that took effect in 2018 made planning even harder for some people.  While still working ...

Plan Ahead To Avoid This IRA Tax Trap If you are close to age 70, and own one or more retirement accounts, start planning ahead to manage required minimum distributions (RMD).  Even when you are taking a distribution ...

Shopping For a Better Drug Plan NOW Can Put More Money in Your 2020 Budget By Mary Johnson, editor One-out-of-five people who participated in TSCL Senior Survey spend more than $250.00 per month out-of-pocket on pr ...

How You Can Get Help With Heating Costs The Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) is a federal program that can help eligible households with their heating and cooling costs.  The program varies by state ...

Attention Diabetics! New Drug Plan Program Lowers Cost of Lantus to as little as $6.00 to $11.00 Increased Congressional scrutiny of drug pricing practices, particularly for the pricing of insulin, appears to be pr ...

It’s Hurricane Season.  Do You Need Hurricane Insurance? Technically, there’s no such thing as “hurricane insurance,” but if you live in a hurricane prone area, it’s a good idea to get a better understanding of your h ...

3 Experts Share Their Best Tips For Saving Money Recently we asked 3 specialists to share their ideas for saving money and living in retirement.  Here’s what each told us: Kevin L. Lawrence, MD pulmonologist of Sent ...

How Would You Document Your Losses After a Catastrophe? It’s the one thing that every person who has been through a fire, flood, tornado hurricane or other major disaster wish they had. Every firefighter and first res ...