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Medicare Changes Coming in 2015
Changes are coming to Medicare, the insurance plan for seniors and disabled, in 2015. This will affect the way physicians deliver care and the way patients receive care. Officials from the Pennsylvania Medical Society discussed some of the changes in…
Stop enabling disability fraud
The number of Americans receiving Social Security disability benefits has soared over the last decade, with serious fiscal consequences. Among the forces driving that trend are the Great Recession and the aging of the U.S. workforce. Though costly, those factors…
More Redistribution, Less Income
One reading of the midterm election wave is that voters have concluded that President Obama ’s answer to falling incomes and slow growth—higher taxes on the rich and more redistribution—is tapped out. These policies have been up and running for…
It’s Bonus Time: 4 Things You Must Do Before December 31
Getting a bonus is just about the best news you can get at work. Traditionally, bonuses represented a relatively small part of employees’ pay, but recently, the trend has been toward bonuses making up a larger portion of the overall…
How To Plan For Retirement With A Pension
As retirement approaches, the importance of such tools as pension plans, savings accounts and Social Security sets in. Whether you have two months or 20 years before your final day at the office, devising a solid plan for how you…
Motley Fool: Pundits pandering your wealth away
“My job is to write the exact same thing between 50 and 100 times a year in such a way that neither my editors nor my readers will ever think I am repeating myself,” Wall Street Journal columnist Jason Zweig…
What Social Security benefits will spouse get?
A spouse receives one-half of the retired worker’s full benefit if the spouse retires at full retirement age. If the spouse begins collecting benefits before full retirement age, we reduce those benefits by a percentage based on how much earlier…
Fraud fighters offer tips to thwart ever-smarter thieves
Credit card and identity thieves are getting so believable in their scams that they fooled even Robert Moraca. Briefly. Moraca is a former police detective, an expert on credit card fraud, and vice president for loss prevention for the National Association…
Big data, big money collide with privacy
On June 12, Technet, a trade group that lobbies on almost any privacy legislation that affects Silicon Valley interests, spent $1,938 to cover food and drinks at DeVere’s Irish Pub. That’s pocket change in today’s politics. Assemblyman Ian Calderon, a Los…
Serving veterans on Veterans Day and always
Every day, but particularly on Veterans Day, Social Security salutes those who have put their lives on the line for our freedom. Members of the United States armed forces receive expedited processing of their Social Security disability applications. The expedited process…