What Was I Thinking? By Mary Johnson, editor, and Terry Newell, President, Leadership for a Responsible Society Why does decision making have to be so hard? How much time is the right amount to spend on thinking thi ...
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Benefit Bulletin: July 2018
"Official" Poverty Measure Undercounts The Number Of Older Americans Living In Poverty By Arthur Cooper, Board Chairman An alternate measure of inflation, the Supplemental Poverty Measure, indicates that the number o ...
2018 Loss of Buying Power Report
2018 Loss of Buying Power Report ...
Social Security COLA Could Top 3% In 2019
(Washington, DC) – The annual Social Security cost of living adjustment (COLA) for 2019 could top 3 percent, according to a new estimate released by The Senior Citizens League. A 3 percent COLA would be the highest sinc ...
Q & A: May/June 2018
Q: My dad passed away at 67 and my mother claimed a widow’s benefit, at 65 based on his account. Now she’s over age 70, and she’s having trouble making ends meet. She worked for 30 years for a large company. Is ther ...
Benefit Bulletin: May/June 2018
Medicare Therapy Caps: A Long Battle for Patient Access Madison West, Legislative Assistant Mary Katherine was 90 when a stroke left her paralyzed on one side of her body and unable to speak. It was 1996 and at th ...
Retiree Expenses Up More Than $119 Month, COLA Up Less Than $45 Month
How well does the Social Security cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) protect the buying power of Social Security benefits? Not very, according to early online results of TSCL’s 2018 Senior Survey. Retiree household spe ...
The Advisor Asks:
Can Healthcare Costs Be Improved By Expanding Medicare? By Mary Johnson, editor, with Carol Bingaman, retired public health and business professional What would you say if you had the opportunity to sit down with 1 ...
Medicare Tops For U.S. Healthcare But Lags Other Nations
By Mary Johnson, Editor Medicare is highly popular among retired and disabled beneficiaries. But according to a study of international health systems, older Americans are in worse health and pay more for their heal ...
Social Security COLAs Need to Double and Medicare Part B Increases Cut in Half, to Ensure Benefit Adequacy
(Washington, DC) – Social Security cost-of-living adjustments (COLA) would need to double their rate of growth and Medicare Part B premium increases would need to slow by half their historic rate to provide greater Socia ...
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