My Part D Premium Went Up By 48%. Does Medicare Allow This? Q: My Part D plan premium went up by 48% in 2024. I…
Best Ways to Save: Figuring Your Taxes? Don’t Overlook These Little-Known Medical Expense Deductions
Although Medicare often comes with high out-of-pocket costs, you might be able to mitigate the hit to your finances by itemizing those medical expenses on…
The number of older Americans who pay federal income tax on their Social Security benefits is rapidly growing, according to recent surveys by TSCL. Twenty-three…
A $1,400 stimulus check for each Social Security recipient is a top legislative goal for TSCL in 2024. While hundreds of thousands of older Americans…
More than two-thirds of older adults participating in TSCL’s latest Retirement Survey say their monthly budget for essential items such as housing, food, and prescription…
December 2023 Update
The costs of prescription drugs and working to lower them will be among the top health issues facing the Biden administration in 2024, with Supreme…
According to a report in StatNews, “… the U.S. government spent more on health care last year than the governments of Germany, the U.K., Italy,…
One of the few things the House of Representatives managed to accomplish in 2023 was the passage on December 11 of H.R. 5378, the Lower…
As has become usual in recent years, Congress failed to pass the legislation needed to fund the federal government for the new fiscal year 2024.…