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Changing Your Name After Marriage Could Risk Your Credit
Have you gotten married? Congratulations! Now, it’s time to check your credit report. Credit bureaus get their information about you from two places: The Social Security Administration, which verifies your identity, and from your creditors, who report your activity. Read more… …
SSA Could Take Steps to Improve Its Assessment of Continued Eligibility
Testimony Before the Subcommittee on Energy Policy, Health Care, and Entitlements, Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, House of Representatives Read more… Notice: The “Read more…” link provided above connects readers to the full text of the posted article.…
Government says 2015 Medicare payments to rise
The U.S. government on Monday said that final payments to private health insurers for 2015 private Medicare Advantage plans would rise 0.4 percent compared with a proposed cut it said would have been about 1.9 percent. The final rate announcement comes…
7 Shocking Facts About the Financial Security of Americans
Our nation’s Social Security system is said to be woefully underfinanced, but if you think Americans are any better off with their private savings, think again. Forty percent of individuals in the U.S. said they could not or probably could not…
Social Security Administration Updates Transgender Policy
After a 92-year-old WWII vet took on the federal agency, the Social Security Administration has issued updated guidelines designed to eliminate a number of challenges trans individuals face when attempting to obtain benefits. Read more… Notice: The “Read more…”…
Medical Assn Won’t Stop Medicare Doc Data Release
The nation’s largest doctors’ group said Monday it won’t try to block Medicare’s release of billing records for 880,000 physicians, although it continues to oppose the government’s recent decision to open up the massive data trove. An official of the American…
Why You Could Die Broke, Lonely and Miserable
While health insurance is controversial, the product is not broken. Long-term care insurance is broken. Long-term care insurance works something like Social Security. Young workers pay; old workers collect. But as the costs of long-term care have skyrocketed, and as America has continued to age, the…
Democrats and Seniors…Keep the Medicare Advantage Program?
“Democrats have to perform better with seniors than they did in 2010. They got shellacked with seniors in 2010. I don’t think the goal here is to win, but I definitely think the goal is to narrow the gap,” he…
The Smart Way to Tap Investment Accounts in Retirement
If you are like many Americans, you have a variety of investment and retirement accounts. When it comes time to live on that money, how do you decide which ones to tap first? The goal is to maximize your ability to…
America, the Land of Workarounds
Once upon a time, Americans took on great challenges and met them: the transcontinental railroad and the Panama Canal. Universal high school and Social Security. The conquest of polio and the Interstate Highway System. During the four years between Pearl Harbor…