Edward Cates, Chairman of the Board, TSCL It’s one of our biggest pet peeves, and a lot of you share it — the taxation of our Social Security benefits. In fact, 57% of participants in recent TSCL surveys report that t ...
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Medicare Beneficiaries and Taxpayers Are Getting Ripped Off, And Our Government Lets Too Many Get Away With It
Waste, fraud, and abuse is estimated to have cost Medicare $47 billion in 2022 according to a report from the U.S Government Accountability Office. That’s an astonishing $721 for every Medicare beneficiary. Since benefic ...
Are Social Security Benefit Cuts Coming?
The chance of problems affecting the timely funding of Social Security benefits appears to be growing this year. The Republican majority in the House pushed through a new set of rules which would make it harder to raise ...
Inflation Is Coming Down, But Will You “Catch Up?”
By Mary Johnson, Editor Some financial experts theorize that retirees can look forward to an improvement in buying power this year. As the rate of inflation falls, that should mean the buying power of Social Security ...
Millions could Lose Medicaid Coverage This Year
Roughly 84 million people in the U.S., including 7.2 million low-income seniors, are covered by Medicaid, which has grown by 20 million people since January 2020, just before the COVID-19 pandemic hit. But as states b ...
After Charges of Fraud, Insurance Companies Push Back
Cutting “waste, fraud, and abuse” is always part of the solution politicians bring up when they discuss how to reduce government spending. But there’s a debate about just what “waste, fraud, and abuse” really is. A c ...
Congress Off to a Slow Start
Congress is off to a slower start this year, even as critical issues that soon must be dealt with remain unsettled. This seems to be especially true in the House of Representatives, which in the past usually got its work ...
Will There be Cuts to Social Security and Medicare?
This is one of the hottest topics in Washington right now. Because it’s so important to seniors, we want to recap the issue for you. The crisis has come about because the federal government will sometime in the coming ...
Free Vaccines for Seniors
One of the little-known provisions of President Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act that Congress passed last fall requires all adult vaccines covered under Medicare Part D, like the one for shingles, be covered at no cost i ...
Inflation – COLA Update
Press Briefing 01.12.2023 ...