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America’s Jump From Economic Crisis To Retirement Crisis
Over and over again, America’s seniors are being told they must foot the bill for fiscal failures which have already left them facing a weakened and tenuous retirement. In Detroit, a bankruptcy judge has ruled the city can cut pension payments to…
THEN & NOW: Preaching against the odds
For the past two years, the Rev. Tom Clement hasn’t just fought against the degenerative disease that some predicted would have killed him by now.He and his wife, Hye Kyong, have had to battle the government for his Social Security…
Retirement myths you need to ignore
Ever find yourself around the water cooler discussing with co-workers how your 401(k) is performing — likely leading to the increasingly popular “I’ll never be able to retire” discussion? It’s becoming a bit of a modern-day lament, begging the question:…
Give low-income earners more from Social Security
A new study just published by the National Institute on Retirement Security, “Race and Retirement Insecurity in the United States,” presents a dismal snapshot of the state of retirement savings of minority American families. It reports that 54.3 percent of…
COLA cap would cut lifetime retirement of service members
The yearly value of a 20-year military retirement would be cut for the current force steadily until age 62 under a COLA cap provision in the “bipartisan” budget deal struck by Rep. Paul Ryan R-Wis., and Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash.,…
Long-sought Medicare change could help local doctors, patients
The U.S. Congress is closer than ever to fixing a federal reimbursement crisis that every year around the holidays threatens to cut Medicare payments to doctors by about 25 percent. The legislative fix would eliminate Medicare’s formula for controlling spending. Known…
Wheelchair icon revamped by guerrilla art project
It started as a guerrilla street art project in Cambridge aimed at beginning a conversation. Then it quickly became something else, a grass-roots movement that spread quickly, because it requires no language and no explaining. You just have to consider…
Lawmakers express hopes for permanent Medicare ‘doc fix’
Committee leaders in both the House and Senate expressed optimism Thursday that Congress could soon reform Medicare’s flawed physician payment system. The chairmen of the Senate Finance and House Ways and Means committees urged quick progress on bills to repeal…
Addressing Four Misconceptions That Can Derail Social Security Disability Benefits
Many people put off an application for Social Security Disability benefits because they feel it is too complicated, that they don’t qualify, or because of worries that the process is simply too daunting. Handler, Henning & Rosenberg has helped numerous…
AMAC Warns on Social Security’s Financial Cliff
The Association of Mature American Citizens (AMAC) today reaffirmed concerns expressed in the 2013 Social Security Trustees Report about the program’s projected insolvency. Despite recurring internet postings dispelling the Trustees’ observations and projections of an impending shortfall, AMAC president Dan Weber…