The failure of the politically divided Congress and Obama White House to address a sizable list of thorny spending and tax issues by year’s end could pose hardships for seniors and a setback for the economy. At the close ...
Category: Issues
Government Waste At Its Worst
Medicare Doesn’t Recover The Majority Of Overpayment Payment Amounts, By Mary Johnson Federal prosecutors recently announced the biggest-ever one-day takedown of a phony Medicare billing scheme. One hundred seven peop ...
Benefit Bulletin: August 2012
TSCL Chairman Larry Hyland Congratulates Representative Mike McIntyre (NC-7) Congressman Mike McIntyre Receives TSCL 2012 Seniors Advocate Award One of North Carolina’s staunchest advocates for seniors was recently re ...
Social Security & Medicare Questions: Choosing a Hospital
Q: I’m 65 and enrolled in Medicare. I need to undergo a routine surgery. There are several hospitals in my area and my doctor asked me which one I wanted to use. Since I’m new to this area, I wasn’t sure. Any suggestions ...
Best Ways to Save: Aug 2012
Five Ways to Get Affordable Dental Care If you’re new to Medicare and you need dental work, don’t count on Medicare to cover the bill. Neither routine dental care nor dentures are covered as basic benefits under Medic ...
Legislative Update: August 2012
Three Ways Congress Can Pay For Notch Reform By Jessie Gibbons, Legislative Analyst Each month, due to the Social Security Act Amendments that were signed into law in 1977, more than 3.7 million Notch babies receiv ...
Congressional Corner: We Have To Do A Better Job On The COLA
By U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown (OH) While many of you received your first cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) for Social Security in more than two years, I understand the increase is less than it should be – and how it do ...
Ask the Advisor: Child Tax Credits
Is The IRS Paying Illegals Billions In Child Tax Credits? Q: I recently received an email with a link to a “Tax Loophole for Illegals” video claiming that the IRS had paid over $4 billion in Child Tax refunds to illeg ...
When Should You Enroll In Medicare?
Failure to enroll in Medicare on time can cost you thousands in extra Medicare premium penalties during the course of your retirement. Medicare’s exhausting perplexity raises the chance of costly deadline errors for seni ...
The Three Biggest Social Security & Medicare Mistakes
(And what you can do to avoid them) Eighty-six percent of workers in their 60s say they plan to work past age 65 according to the Transamerica Center for Retirement Studies. But for seniors who keep working, learning ...
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