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Should You Work in Retirement?
So you’ve paid your dues for decades, and it’s time to decide whether you’re ready to retire. You’re not only wondering whether you can afford to live off your savings, but you’re wondering how leaving the workplace could affect your…
Medicare costs may crowd out other needs
The White House recently put out a 40-page report arguing that the 24 states that have not expanded Medicaid coverage under the Affordable Care Act (ACA or “Obamacare”) are hurting their poor and themselves. It’s an easy case to make,…
Social Security honors veterans
In the United States, people do a lot to recognize and honor the heroes who serve in the Armed Forces and those who paid the ultimate sacrifice. July is an appropriate month to recognize veterans and wounded warriors, as we…
Social Security reforms popular, but improbable
Women, don’t hold your breath. For that matter, no one should be getting blue in the face waiting for Social Security to change for the better. So says a study from the Institute for Women’s Policy Research, authored by IWPR…
Medicare is here to stay
Medicare went into effect 48 years ago on July 1, 1966. Earlier that same year, Medicare workers went door to door trying to get seniors to sign up. Medicare was not the cornerstone then that it is today and people…
VA denied 80 percent of disability claims filed by Gulf War veterans
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs has released data that shows 80 percent of disability claims filed by Gulf War veterans for conditions related to the war have been denied, citing “inadequate and insufficient evidence” to indicate that the cancers,…
Social Security must preserve face-to-face services
As Baby Boomers reach retirement age, more and more Americans today are receiving Social Security benefits. Yet, despite this substantial increase in caseload, the Social Security Administration (SSA) is actually closing field offices. In the past five years, the SSA…
Women must know what to expect from Social Security
Everyone needs to be aware of the financial resources they will have available in retirement. But if you’re a woman, you must be particularly diligent, for a variety of reasons. And that means you’ll need to know just what to…
Ready or Not, Obamacare Could Alter Medicare Advantage Plans As We Know Them
It’s been a little more than nine months since state and federally run health insurance exchanges opened for business, and we’re still largely at the point where everyone involved, from consumers all the way up to the insurance companies themselves,…
Social Security: Retirement is a big decision
If you believe in going all the way or not going at all, there’s a day to celebrate your extreme ways. July 26 is All or Nothing Day. Not a day for the undecided, All or Nothing Day is dedicated…