Seniors Reject Retirement Trust Fund Borrowing As Disability Fix By Mary Johnson, editor According to the Congressional Budget Office, the Social Security Disability program will be fully insolvent by 2017, but so ...
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Benefit Bulletin: June 2014
Will It Work? New Program Hopes To Lower Costs Of Caring For Low-Income Seniors An experimental new program will affect the healthcare coverage of low-income seniors in 17 states over the next three years. Participati ...
Ask The Advisor: Spousal Benefits
What Happened To My Higher Retirement Benefit? Q: When my husband and I were planning the timing on our Social Security benefits, our financial advisor suggested that we could maximize our payout if I started with a s ...
Social Security & Medicare Questions: Where Can I Get Help With What Medicare Doesn’t Cover?
Where Can I Get Help With What Medicare Doesn't Cover? Q: I'm new to Medicare. I didn't realize that Medicare doesn't cover eye or hearing exams like my former insurance at work. My income is pretty low. Where can I g ...
These Ten Fastest Growing Costs Can Blow Senior Budgets
Seniors have lost 31% of the buying power of their Social Security benefits since 2000, according to TSCL's 2014 Survey of Senior Costs. The findings are the same as last year; showing no improvement in the buying power ...
Majority Of Seniors Think Affordable Care Act Not So Affordable
Majority Of Seniors Think Affordable Care Act Not So Affordable New Survey Released By The Senior Citizens League Alexandria, VA: A large majority of seniors think that the costs of new health plans und ...
Ask The Advisor: Congress Salaries and COLA
How Much Did Congress Earn Last Year? Q: Can you tell me how much members of Congress earned last year after shutting down the government? Did they receive a COLA for 2014? I've heard conflicting stories. A: Member ...
Legislative Update: May 2014
Is June The "Sweet Spot" For Immigration Reform? By Jessie Gibbons, Legislative Assistant Last June, lawmakers in the Senate passed a comprehensive immigration reform package that totaled 1,200 pages and laid out a p ...
Benefit Bulletin: 2014 COLA Repeal
Military Retiree COLA Cut Attempt Shot Down — Prelude To Next Battle? In the face of bipartisan outrage, Congress swiftly repealed a recently - enacted cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) cut before it could go into effe ...
No Lie! Affordable Care Act Not So Affordable
By Mary Johnson The Obama Administration and proponents of Obamacare have continued to downplay the cancellations of the health insurance of 4.7 million individual policy-holders (including yours truly) who received n ...
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