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nTIDE Jobs Report: People With Disabilities Falling Behind but Still Striving to Work
While people with disabilities continue to fall behind in obtaining employment, the percent looking for work among Americans with and without disabilities is nearly equal, according to today’s National Trends in Disability Employment – Monthly Update (nTIDE), issued by Kessler…
Medicare’s Nursing Home Rating System Is Misleading, NY Times Finds
From hotels to movies, a five-star rating denotes top quality. But this is not necessarily the case with nursing homes, according to a recent New York Times investigation. The revelation serves as a reminder that when looking for a nursing…
Social Security Disability: Why Do So Many Americans Get Denied?
When most Americans think of Social Security, they focus on the retirement benefits they’ll eventually receive from the program. But for those who suffer an injury or illness that prevents them from working long-term, Social Security disability benefits are far…
Headache-free retirement planning
Every time one of my children says, “Back in your day,” I wince. After watching an old black-and-white sitcom, my son actually asked me if there was color television back in my day. His sisters thought it was funny. Me? Not…
Obamacare Effect Linked to Lower Medical Cost Estimates
Estimates of U.S. health-care spending for the next five years have been lowered by two federal agencies, and the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is getting much of the credit. U.S. health spending in 2019 will be $4 trillion,…
Take care with Medicare reforms
Medicare is the most successful government social program in U.S. history. It not only provides access to care for 45.3 million people older than 65 and 8.8 million disabled people, but by doing so keeps millions of those people out…
Football and Social Security
Good coaching and a great playbook can make all the difference in the world for a winning football team. Fail to create a sound game plan, and you’re likely to miss opportunities and fall behind. The same is true for…
6 Tools to Supercharge Retirement Savings
Saving for retirement certainly isn’t easy. A recent study by the Transamerica Center for Retirement Studies found that only 18 percent of those surveyed expect to be better off in retirement. While no tool can fully automate retirement planning, there…
How You Can Be Happy in Retirement
People who feel more secure about their finances are more likely to be happy in retirement, a survey by Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance shows. If you don’t want to fall into the unhappy retiree camp, or even worse, not have…
‘Independent’’ workers raise questions in SC
COLUMBIA, S.C. — In the months that a $10 million housing project rose from a north Columbia hillside, teams of workers installed pipes, laid carpet, lifted boxes, swung hammers and cemented bricks as their employers raced to meet deadlines. But about a…