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Is The Nation’s Retirement System Really Failing?
The U.S. retirement system as well as the retirees it was designed to help face major challenges, according to a new report from the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO). The GAO says that fundamental changes ove ...
Q & A: Will my Social Security benefits be taxable?
Q: I retired last year, but my spouse continues to work. This will be our first tax season with Social Security benefit income. Will my Social Security benefits be taxable? A: If you’re receiving Social Security in ...
How Are You Doing In Retirement?
By Mary Johnson, Editor One of the most remarkable things about our current Congress is the way in which lawmakers have crafted massive, contentious legislation mostly in secret, and then rushed bills to the floor f ...
How Adequately Does Social Security Cover Medicare Costs?
The annual Social Security cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) increased benefits by 2% this year. But Social Security recipients probably did not see much, if any, increase in net Social Security benefits, because of the ...
Benefit Bulletin – Congress Plans To Make “Mandatory Spending” Cuts A Priority This Year
By Chairman Art "Coop" Cooper After making much to-do over budgets that don’t balance last year, the GOP went on to release tax plans last fall that would add an estimated $1.7 trillion to the federal debt, accordin ...
Q & A – what home health care benefits Medicare covers
Q: My 89-year-old mother was recently hospitalized and held for observation due to suspicious chest pain. She has been released, but my husband and I are considering moving her in with us. We are wondering what home h ...
Ask The Advisor – Help! My Disabled Son Is Getting Transferred To A Medicaid Managed Care Plan.
Q: My adult son has cerebral palsy and gets his healthcare through both Medicare and Medicaid. I recently received a letter from the state that his former fee-for-service coverage is ending and that he has been assigned ...
Congressional Corner – Rep. Charlie Crist (FL-13)
Congress Should Work Together to Strengthen Social Security By Representative Charlie Crist (FL-13) Social Security represents America’s promise that after a lifetime of hard work and paying into the system, senior ...
7 Recommendations For Social Security’s Disability Insurance Program
By Jessie Gibbons, Senior Policy Analyst For the past several years, Social Security’s Disability Insurance (DI) program has been facing financing challenges. In the fall of 2015, lawmakers took action to prevent ...
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