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Reviving Medicare’s Flailing Prevention Program
President Kennedy, in 1963, designated May as the time to honor older Americans and on April 30th President Obama issued a proclamation to mark the beginning of the celebratory month, themed Safe Today, Healthy Tomorrow. In keeping with the theme, he…
Hearing Scheduled – Strengthening Social Security to Meet the Needs of Tomorrow’s Retirees
United States Senate Committee on Finance Subcommittee on Social Security, Pensions, and Family Policy has scheduled a hearing for Wednesday, May 21, 2014, 10:00 AM at 215 Dirksen Senate Office Building on this subject. Click here for additional information and to submit a statement…
Disability Insurance Awareness Month Points Out Staggering Facts
Alarmingly, the Social Security Administration published statistics in 2013 showing that 1 in 4 working adults will become disabled for a period of time before they retire. May is Disability Insurance Awareness Month and Lisa Gorlick a.k.a HypoGal has joined…
Bill Seeks To Provide Social Security Benefits To Gay Couples Living In Non-Equality States
A bill introduced by Democratic Senators Patty Murray and Mark Udall seeks to provide married gay couples living in states that do not recognize their marriages with Social Security spousal benefits. Read more… Notice: The “Read more…” link provided…
Solving the Retirement Puzzle
The growing recognition that millions of Americans are ill-prepared for retirement has prompted a number of state and federal policy proposals to promote retirement security. Yet even the most promising proposals fail to acknowledge a prerequisite to sustaining long-term savings:…
‘Compassionate allowances’ fast-track applications for disability benefits
t used to be that some people with serious disabilities would die before the Social Security Administration finally got around to reviewing their applications for disability benefits. Today, applicants with one of 225 of the severest medical conditions can win…
Rubio’s Social Security Reform Makes a Lot of Sense
Over the last few months, Florida Sen. Marco Rubio has been releasing a series of domestic policy proposals, the most recent of which is the best yet. Drawing on the work of Andrew Biggs of the American Enterprise Institute, a leading expert on Social…
Towers Watson report challenges retirement ‘crisis’
Some of the many recent assessments of how much American workers should save and when they should save it underestimate the sufficiency of retirement savings for many households, according to a decidedly contrarian report from Towers Watson. Read more… Notice: The…
Undercover Investigation into Disability Fraud
This video-based undercover report by federal agents illustrates a real-life focus on disability fraud, an epidemic that reportedly costs taxpayers billions of dollars annually. Watch the “Good Morning America” video here… Notice: The “Read more…” link provided above connects readers…
More middle-aged people feeling confident about retirement
Lynn Davidson is living her golden years. Not set schedule, no worries about work, just retirement and some workouts. But the road to get here was not always easy. When you are planning decades in advance, there is bound to be worries. “You’ve gotta…