What Happened To The Effort To Add Dental Benefits To Medicare? Q: I recently had to get a tooth extracted. The practice that performed the oral surgery required me to sign a waiver stating that they do not particip ...
Legislative Update: September 2022
60% Of Older Adults Support Two Year Suspension of Tax on Social Security Benefits By Doug Osborne, TSCL Legislative Liaison TSCL is gearing up to ask Congress to enact legislation that would protect Social Securit ...
Benefit Bulletin: September/October 2022
Medicare Given Authority to Negotiate Drug Prices By Rick Delaney, Chairman of the Board, TSCL Legislation that will cut prescription drug costs by allowing Medicare to negotiate prices was recently signed into law ...
“Elder Index” Shows True Cost of Aging And That Other Sources of Income Are Needed in Retirement
A relatively little-known measure of the cost of living of older Americans — the Elder Index developed by researchers at the Gerontology Institute of Massachusetts-Boston — recently made news after researchers found that ...
How Medicare Spending Can Be Cut To Help With Inflation
As the Federal Reserve raises interest rates which affects the cost of borrowing money, the cost of the government’s debt is rising. That in turn is having an impact on government spending, as well as the balances of th ...
2023 COLA Could Be One of Highest Ever Paid —8.7%
By Mary Johnson, editor Social Security beneficiaries can look forward to receiving one the highest cost-of-living adjustments (COLA) ever paid in the history of the program next year. Based on consumer price index d ...
WEP/GPO Repeal Update
This past Friday, the House Ways and Means Committee discussed H.R. 82, the Social Security Fairness Act. They voted to send the bill to the whole House of Representatives with no recommended changes, so that it can be c ...
Medicare Open Enrollment Season Almost Here
Medicare Open Enrollment runs from October 15 through December 7 each year. There are several sources online to get information about the enrollment season, but TSCL recommends you first go to Medicare.gov to get the ...
Congress Races to Avoid Government Shutdown
This is the do-or-die week for Congress as the end of the fiscal year for the federal government arrives this Friday. Because Congress has not passed any funding legislation for FY 2023, they are planning to pass a “cont ...
Week Ending September 24, 2022
Congress Races to Avoid Government Shutdown This is the do-or-die week for Congress as the end of the fiscal year for the federal government arrives this Friday. Because Congress has not passed any funding legislation ...
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