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Social Security’s Crisis Next Year With Disability Insurance
(Source – www.concordcoalition.org) In a Washington Monthly op-ed focusing on Social Security’s Disability Insurance program, Phil LaRue, government relations director for The Concord Coalition, writes that reform is personal for the 11 million Americans who could face a severe cut in…
A Silver Tsunami Invades The Health Of Nations
(By – Reenita Das, Forbes Contributor) One of the biggest mega trends impacting the world today is population aging. By 2020, for the first time in history, the number of older people will outnumber the number of children younger than 5…
Big Price Hikes Coming for Medicare Premiums in 2016
By – Martha Lynn Craver, www.kiplinger.com) Retirees, adjust your budget: Double-digit price hikes for Medicare Part B premiums are coming next year. The actual rates for Part B (which covers the costs of doctor visits and outpatient care) will be announced in October…
Social Security After Divorce
(Source – www.nasdaq.com) If you plan to retire soon and you’re divorced, you may be entitled to additional Social Security retirement benefits based on your ex-spouse’s work and earnings record. Here’s how to get what you might well be entitled to. This…
Eight trivia questions for 80th Anniversary of Social Security
(By – Kirk Larson, Social Security Western Washington Public Affairs Specialist) Eighty years ago, on Aug. 14, 1935, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Social Security Act into law. Here in Washington, Social Security plays a major part in supporting our communities…
Preliminary observations on overpayments and beneficiary work reporting concerning disability insurance
(Source – hr.cch.com) The SSA’s Disability Insurance (DI) program is one of the nation’s largest cash assistance programs. To ensure that beneficiaries remain eligible, SSA regulations require that they promptly report their work activity—including starting a job or a change in…
Mike Huckabee says Social Security imperiled by dramatic decline in wage-earners
(By – Christian Belanger, www.politifact.com) During the Aug. 6 Republican debate, Mike Huckabee and Chris Christie engaged in one of the calmer exchanges of the evening, discussing how best to reform Social Security and Medicare. Christie laid out his position first: raising the…
More Veterans Exposed to Toxic Water Receive Disability Status
(By – Crystal Shepeard, www.care2.com) In 2012, President Barack Obama signed a law that provided health care to thousands of Marine veterans and their families who suffered illnesses linked to contaminated drinking water at a North Carolina Marine base. Due to…
How should Social Security define disability?
(By – JASON RUSSELL, www.washingtonexaminer.com) According to Social Security’s Disability Insurance program, there are only two kinds of disability: completely disabled or not. But in reality, disability is more complex than that. The program’s failure to account for this is a disservice…
Social Security; Part 1: Today the Problem, Tomorrow the Solution
(By – Martin Shapiro, www.huffingtonpost.com) The so-called ‘retirement age’ is nominally thought to be 65 years old, but to get your full Social Security benefit the age is inching up each couple of months to 67, for those born in 1960 or…