By Susan Stewart, Licensed Insurance Agent It’s not happy news when a Medicare beneficiary finds out they have incurred a Late Enrollment Penalty. The most common penalty I see is Medicare Part D prescription drug ...
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Adding Dental, Vision, and Hearing to Medicare Coverage
By Alex Moore Despite making cuts to other government agencies and services, the new administration has vowed to protect Medicare and Social Security. It has also, primarily through new Health and Human Services Secre ...
LEGISLATIVE UPDATE: New Bills Could Increase Benefits by $2,400 and Eliminate Taxes on Benefits
By Daisy Brown, Legislative Liaison, TSCL So far this year, Congress has been busy introducing new legislation to improve Americans’ Social Security benefits. Two bills, the Social Security Expansion Act and the Senio ...
BENEFITS BULLETIN: New Leadership Appointments for Social Security and Medicare
By Edward Cates, Chairman, TSCL With a new presidential administration, only one thing is inevitable: change. As the Trump administration has taken power, the changes made at the top of the Social Security and Medicar ...
April 2025
The Senior Citizens League (TSCL) Monthly Washington Update for April 2025 The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released its latest long-term outlook, raising alarms about the sustainability of Social Security and Med ...
New Study Shows Medicare Advantage Beneficiaries Leave Meat on the Bone
By Alex Moore Although Medicare Advantage (MA) plans usually offer vision, hearing, and dental benefits not covered by traditional Medicare, MA beneficiaries generally don’t receive additional care in those areas, whi ...
The Treasury Department Just Clawed Back $31 Million in Federal Payments to Dead People
By Alex Moore This January, the U.S. Treasury Department announced that it has recovered $31 million in federal payments that improperly went to dead people in a five-month pilot project. The Treasury Department under ...
American vs. U.K. Healthcare: The Good and the Bad
By Susan Stewart, Licensed Insurance Agent I lived in England for 10 years, worked, got a driver's license, joined a book club, and needed medical care. There, virtually all costs that we’d associate with health insur ...
Legislative Update: Medicare Begins Price Negotiations for Weight-Loss Drugs
By Daisy Brown, Legislative Liaison, TSCL In January, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced the next 15 drugs whose prices it will negotiate directly with pharmaceutical companies, using power ...
Should You Be Worried About DOGE and Social Security?
By Edward Cates, Chairman, TSCL The new Department of Government Efficiency, also known as DOGE, has spent a lot of time in the headlines over the last few months. Headed by Elon Musk, the agency was established by th ...