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The Surprising Push to Make Your Benefits Bigger
For years, Social Security has faced a looming financial crisis that has future recipients fearful that they’ll have to accept smaller monthly payments than they’d hoped. Surprisingly, though, a growing group of lawmakers in Congress are working to raise Social…
What Might Social Security Look Like in 20 Years?
Ask a majority of Americans what they think about Social Security — the program intended to provide income to qualifying individuals so as to help prevent financial hardship — and they’ll tell you it’s broken. According to a CNN/ORC International poll…
What the history of Medicare Part D can tell us about Obamacare
How Americans will take to the Affordable Care Act over the long haul may be hard to predict, but mapping out its future course need not be entirely the product of guesswork. That’s because we have a model on which…
Man with disability needs help finding his service dog last seen in Marion, AR
A Colorado man with a disability needs your help finding his service dog last spotted in Marion, Ark. “I have basically scoured the whole highway,” said the dog’s owner, Mark Urich. “Just walking and calling him.” Urich got into Marion…
This week: National My Social Security Week
The Social Security Administration has declared this week National my Social Security Week. The administration is asking for help encouraging Americans to sign-up for their own my Social Security account. It is offering posters, publications, social media content and other…
Telephone tax scam growing
The Internal Revenue Service has shifted most of its operations online, but tax scammers are relying on a 19th century invention. Con artists pretending to be IRS agents are calling people via Alexander Graham Bell’s communications-changing device and, in many cases, demanding…
Social Security: The Surprising Push to Make Your Benefits Bigger
For years, Social Security has faced a looming financial crisis that has future recipients fearful that they’ll have to accept smaller monthly payments than they’d hoped. Surprisingly, though, a growing group of lawmakers in Congress are working to raise Social…
Court officials warn of jury scam
Durham County court officials have been informed that a Durham County resident was recently targeted in a scam involving jury duty. A caller informed the resident that a bench warrant had been issued because they had failed to report for…
Medicare Still Needs Reform — Soon
Despite the recent news that the Medicare Part A trust fund is projected to remain solvent for four more years than previously projected, it is important to understand that Medicare’s financial status still calls for immediate reforms. Some proponents of the Affordable Care…
5 Ways to Protect Your Credit
Sometimes it feels like the only stories in the news these days are about data breaches. Just this week alone, the Identity Theft Resource Center has reported a whopping 480 breach cases, a 21.5 percent increase over the same period…