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Wednesday’s inflation reading to determine Social Security rise
Lower gasoline prices look like they are here to stay for a while and that’s good news for consumers. It means already-low inflation is likely to recede and effectively give working-age Americans a pay raise. The same is not necessarily true…
Here’s How Social Security Will Cut Your Benefits If You Retire Early
Social Security retirement benefits normally may be taken as early as age 62, but your income will be substantially higher if you can afford to wait. If you are entitled to, say, a $1,500 monthly benefit at age 66, you…
How medicare covers outpatient mental health services
Does Medicare cover outpatient counseling or therapy sessions for seniors? Since retiring, my husband has really struggled with depression and needs to get some help. What can you tell us? Yes, Medicare recently upgraded its coverage of outpatient mental health services…
Social Security Column: Social Security Speaks Your Language
Social Security’s award-winning website provides information and services in Spanish. Find out why by visiting www.segurosocial.gov. More than a million people visit this website each year to get the information they need.Our popular Spanish-language website offers information that is useful…
ReelAbilities Film Festival focuses on talents of people with disabilities
Pittsburgh’s second annual ReelAbilities Film Festival opens Wednesday in an activist mode with an acclaimed documentary about Hollywood’s portrayal of people with disabilities in movies and television, a personal appearance by the star of the groundbreaking reality show “Push Girls,”…
Mass Governor to Sign Bill at Fenway Protecting People with Disabilities from Out-of-State Criminals
At Fenway Park on Thursday, Oct. 23, disability advocates will gather for the ceremonial signing of the MDSC’s top priority bill – the National Background Check (NBC) Bill. The legislation, which Governor Patrick officially signed into law over the summer,…
Disney Urged To Include Characters With Disabilities
In the history of human storytelling, the flawed hero is as old as the story of Achilles that the ancient Greeks once told one another on the Acropolis hillside. In more modern times, though, and especially writ large on the silver…
Billionaire Urges Disability Hiring
One of the richest people in the world is calling on employers to join him in hiring people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim and Best Buddies founder Anthony Shriver kicked off a new campaign Tuesday to encourage expanded employment…
7 Things You Must Do To Successfully Prepare For Retirement
With 10,000 boomers turning 65 each day, many eyes are watching the sand in their job hourglasses drain. But before they accept their gold watch — does anyone even get gold watches anymore? — here are seven important things everyone…
Medicare patients pay more for rural hospital services
An electrocardiogram, used to monitor heartbeats, will cost a Medicare patient about $5 at the average hospital but nearly $33 at a rural, critical access hospital. ECGs and nine other frequently provided outpatient services cost from two to six times more…