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 ...
Category: Issues
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 ...
Ask The Advisor: May 2015
Would Selling A Home Affect Our Social Security? Q: My wife is 65 and I’m 66. Both of us have started Social Security. We have an opportunity to sell our home, and would realize about $180,000 gain. Would this affect ...
Social Security & Medicare Questions: May 2015
Q: How do I enroll in Medicare if I’m not getting Social Security benefits? I turn 65, next month (June). I’m still working, but I don’t receive health benefits through my employer. I’ve been visiting the doctor at my lo ...
Social Security & Medicare Questions: March 2015
Q: My new rheumatoid arthritis prescription is on the highest tier of my drug plan. Before insurance, it costs about $3,322 for 2 injections that I take every month. I just learned that instead of a co-pay like I have wi ...
Legislative Update: March 2015
Will Budget Negotiators Propose Cutting COLAs Again? Jessie Gibbons, Legislative Assistant With the Social Security Disability Insurance trust fund set to become insolvent by the end of next year, The Senior Citize ...
Benefit Bulletin: March 2015
Social Security Demanding Repayment For (Very) Old Debts If one of your parents died when you were a child, and the other was paid more in Social Security survivors than you were entitled to, should you be held respon ...
F.A.Q. What Does “Executive Action” On Immigration Have To Do With Social Security and Medicare?
President Obama set off a firestorm of controversy announcing an ambitious set of “executive actions” to protect illegal immigrants from deportation. The non-partisan Congressional Budget Office recently released a repor ...
Are Social Security Benefit Cuts More Likely?
The U.S. House sent a strong signal of its plans for Social Security the first day of the new Congress. A new procedural rule may make Social Security benefit cuts much more likely in the near future. At issue is the sol ...
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