The Social Security Administration recently called a halt to a controversial effort to collect debts that were more than 10 years old. For the past three years the government has confiscated tax refunds of hundreds of t ...
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Healthcare Costs Taking More Than One-Third of Social Security Benefits for Many Seniors
By Mary Johnson Here's a stark finding — 44% of seniors responding to TSCL's 2014 Annual Senior Survey say they spend more than one-third of their Social Security benefits on healthcare costs. Included in that number ...
“Administrative Amnesty” Gives Work Authorized SSNs to Known Illegals
An immigration program launched by the Obama Administration two years ago has issued valid, work-authorized Social Security numbers to about 600,000 applicants who attest to be in the country illegally. The program, kno ...
Social Security & Medicare Questions: Does Medicare Require Me To Get A Referral?
Does Medicare Require Me To Get A Referral? Q: Does Medicare require me to get a referral? I recently turned 65 and enrolled in a Medicare Advantage plan. I'm unhappy with a specialist that I'm currently seeing who ...
Will Immigration Reform Put Illegal Immigrants On Path To Social Security?
A push in the House to give legal status to illegal immigrants is reviving some movement toward immigration legislation this year. But the effort is running into outspoken opposition, including that from TSCL's grass roo ...
Attention Congress!
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 ...
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 ...
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