(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 ...
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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 ...
Hold Harmless Study
2020 COLA Hold Harmless Issue Brief 9.2020 An Emergency COLA in 2021 Would Prevent Economic Insecurity and An Unprecedented Medicare Part B Premium Increase for Older Americans September 2020 By Mary Johnson, So ...
How Tax Reform Affects People 65 And Over For 2017 Tax Season
Tax legislation enacted at the end of last year makes significant changes that touch virtually all taxpayers. While most of the new provisions have consequences for the 2018 tax year and thereafter, there are at least a ...
Congressional Leaders Call For Cuts to Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid
Shortly before passing tax reform into law, Republicans announced plans to go after “entitlement spending” in 2018 to reduce the federal debt. Passage of the tax bill is estimated to increase the federal deficit by $1.5 ...
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