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Christie slams 2016 opponents for being ‘vague’
(By – Jordain Carney, The Hill) “I heard a candidate complain the other day that, you know, ‘my positions’ — meaning that candidate’s positions — ‘on comments I made about entitlement reform are being misconstrued by the press.’ Well, it’s…
Save the Social Security Disability Insurance Trust Fund
(By – J Patrick Gromek, www.AMAC.us) While many in the media are consumed with presidential politics, national scandals and foreign crises, the tide has been slowly rising on a serious concern closer to home — at least for older and disabled Americans. A…
Retirement Readiness: How Gen X and Gen Y Really Picture Their Futures
(By Molly Triffin, www.foxbusiness.com) Pop quiz! Who’s most worried about retirement: a) baby boomers, b) Gen Xers or c) Millennials? You’re probably thinking boomers, seeing as their golden years are just around the corner. But according to a new Merrill Edge survey, Gen…
2015 Social Security Trustees Report Issued
(Source – www.socialsecurity.gov) The 2015 Annual Report of the Board of Trustees of the Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance and Federal Disability Insurance Trust Funds has been released. The Social Security Act requires that the Board, among other duties, report annually to…
Trustees Rating Health of Social Security, Medicare
(By – STEPHEN OHLEMACHER and RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR, Associated Press) The federal government’s two largest benefit programs face short- and long-term financial problems as they close in on milestone anniversaries. The magnitude of those problems will become clearer when the trustees…
Medicare spending on Alzheimer’s to explode as boomers age: Analysis
(By – ROBERT KING, www.washingtonexaminer.com) More than 28 million baby boomers are expected to come down with Alzheimer’s as they age, which will send Medicare spending on the dementia disorder skyrocketing in the next 25 years, according to an analysis from…
Job hunters rightly fear identity theft
(By – Diane Stafford, Kansas City Star) Late one night last weekend we got one of those phone calls you hate: A credit card had been used to buy hundreds of dollars of electronics in a distant city. It was a…
Why doesn’t insurance cover hearing aids?
(By – Melissa Nann Burke, The Detroit News) The news can be tough for some to hear, but most private and government insurance plans don’t cover the cost of hearing aid devices. It would take an act of Congress to change this,…
5 Reasons You Might Need More Savings Than You Think
(Source – www.stltoday.com) You may think you have a good idea of how much money you need to save for retirement, but it is not an easy number to predict. Between age, interest rates, estimated government retirement payout and marital status,…
Aging Expert Sees Tougher Road For Retirees
(By – TOM FLANIGAN, news.wfsu.org) No matter our age, we’re all getting older. One Tallahassee expert on the subject of aging has some predictions, not all of which are happy ones. Dr. Larry Polivka heads up the Claude Pepper Center and is…