Edward Cates, Chairman of the Board, TSCL Momentum is growing to fix two provisions of Social Security law that reduce the Social Security benefits of public employees such as firemen, teachers, postal workers, police ...

My Part D Premium Went Up By 48%.  Does Medicare Allow This? Q: My Part D plan premium went up by 48% in 2024. I remember reading that the new Inflation Reduction Act restricted the amount that our drug plan premiums ...

Although Medicare often comes with high out-of-pocket costs, you might be able to mitigate the hit to your finances by itemizing those medical expenses on your federal income taxes to lower your tax bill. Taxpayers are a ...

The number of older Americans who pay federal income tax on their Social Security benefits is rapidly growing, according to recent surveys by TSCL. Twenty-three percent of participants in TSCL’s latest Retirement Survey ...

A $1,400 stimulus check for each Social Security recipient is a top legislative goal for TSCL in 2024. While hundreds of thousands of older Americans have signed our petitions in support of such legislation, some critics ...

More than two-thirds of older adults participating in TSCL’s latest Retirement Survey say their monthly budget for essential items such as housing, food, and prescription drugs was 10 percent higher than in the fall of 2 ...

The costs of prescription drugs and working to lower them will be among the top health issues facing the Biden administration in 2024, with Supreme Court activity, drugmaker lawsuits, and other hurdles expected to compli ...

According to a report in StatNews, “… the U.S. government spent more on health care last year than the governments of Germany, the U.K., Italy, Spain, Austria, and France combined spent to provide universal health care c ...

One of the few things the House of Representatives managed to accomplish in 2023 was the passage on December 11 of H.R. 5378, the Lower Costs, More Transparency Act, a bipartisan healthcare bill that would impose new tra ...