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About the Medicare Advantage “blitz” during Annual Open Enrollment
If you’re like me, you are likely receiving a good amount of mail – email and via the U.S. Postal Service – and, perhaps text messages, offering you wonderful benefits if you simply switch your healthcare coverage by calling “this…
Social Security Resources for Homeless People
The Social Security Administration is one of nineteen federal agencies which participates in the U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness, whose mission is to prevent and end homelessness in America. Unfortunately, homelessness is a substantial problem in America affecting those in…
Suspending Benefits Can be a Useful Option for Some
There are situations where a Social Security recipient has claimed, out of necessity, benefits before full retirement age only to reach a subsequent point where the need for a cash infusion has been offset by income from another source. In…
Social Security Spousal Benefit Nuances: The Older Wife
The Social Security rulebook is pretty complex, and this complexity becomes obvious when one dives into the murky world of spousal benefits. In a post morningstar.com post by, columnist Beth Pinsker examines a situation in which a non-working spouse is…
Social Security’s Operational Funding Shortfalls Highlighted in Appropriations Hearing
Yesterday’s hearing by the House Appropriations Committee and the Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Subcommittee spotlighted the impact of current Social Security Administration funding levels on the agency’s customer service capabilities. In her remarks at the…
“Fixing” Social Security has a Wide Range of Options to Consider
We’ve mentioned many perspectives on the best ways to address the looming Social Security insolvency crisis on this website. In a recent post on nasdaq.com, columnist The Motley Fool’s Matt Frankel covers a list of 16 possible ways to put…
Addressing Retirement Savings Concerns…Some Help Coming in 2025
The importance of building a satisfactory financial “nest egg” one’s life in retirement cannot be understated, especially when viewed in light of Social Security’s design to replace about 40% of most workers’ re-retirement earnings. With the median household retirement savings…
A Discussion on Strenghtening the “Guardrails” for Social Security and Medicade
The crisis in Social Security and Medicare funding is drawing attention from many quarters, especially as the flashpoints draw closer. We’ve reached the point where the luxury of deferring action on the insolvency issues facing these two critical programs will…
Understanding SSDI’s 5-Year Rule
The application for Social Security Disability Income benefits can be a daunting process, and one of the often misunderstood rules encountered concerns the number of years an applicant older than 31 must have worked before developing a disability. Maite Knorr-Evans…
SSA Representatives Outline *00-number Improvements
In a recent press release on the SSA website, agency representatives Tiffany Countess and Chris Chapple outlined improvements implemented on the program’s 800 number platform. Their post touches on the Call Back Assist feature and interpreter services and includes an invitation to…