Does Medicare Provide a Grocery Benefit? Q: I keep seeing ads for a Medicare grocery benefit.  How do I qualify? A: We keep seeing the ads too.  Unfortunately, Medicare does not provide money for groceries, but so ...

Q: What portion of your total household budget do you spend on healthcare costs including Medicare premiums and out of pocket? A: It turns out to be a lot more than our government’s measurement of inflation accounts f ...

TSCL recently confirmed that a Medicare tax that became effective in 2013 never made it into the Medicare Hospital Insurance Trust Fund. Tens of billions in revenues wound up going into the U.S. General Budget Fund inste ...

By Mary Johnson, Social Security and Medicare Policy Analyst The Senior Citizens League's (TSCL) latest study on Social Security Buying Power found that the average person who retired before 2000 (those age 85 and old ...

You have undoubtedly heard about the crisis facing our country regarding the “debt ceiling.”  Right now, Congress is in a countdown to pass legislation needed to stop our government from defaulting on its debts. The l ...

The leaders of two key Senate health committees are trying to strike a deal on a group of drug-pricing bills, including ones to spur generic drug approvals, cut fees from pharmaceutical middlemen, and cap the cost of ins ...

In mid-April, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) announced that people 65 or older with one Pfizer or Moderna updated booster can roll up their sleeves again if it has been at least four months since that last shot. ...

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