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How Medicare Patients Rate Access to Doctors
ACCESS TO CARE: Worried about finding health-care providers in later life? This is one area of retirement planning where you should be able to breathe a bit more easily. A recent study by the Kaiser Family Foundation, a nonprofit in Menlo…
Your retirement planning checklist
Many who are planning their retirement need someplace to start — a list to begin their thinking. The information in this article is just such a list and includes links to relevant content to help in this planning. Areas you should be…
Social Security launches expedited veteran disability claims process
Social Security claims from veterans with a Veterans Affairs Department disability compensation rating of 100 percent permanent and 100 percent total have a new process that will treat their applications as high priority and issue expedited decisions. Carolyn W. Colvin, the…
SOCIAL SECURITY: Dust off your financial plan
Spring is officially here. Before you get started with your spring-cleaning, perhaps another matter deserves some dusting off – that long-term financial plan. April is National Financial Literacy Month – the perfect time to spring into action when it comes to…
Tips on dealing with the Social Security Administration
The workings of the U.S. Social Security Administration can be clouded by jargon and bureaucracy. Check these sites for answers to big questions and how to deal with those bureaucrats. • The retirement “estimator” at Social Security’s SSA.gov site will give…
Seniors facing retirement amid savings crisis
Over the years, Beverly Beiderbeck and her husband, Edward, put away what money they could. When Nabisco was bought out, they rolled Edward’s company retirement savings into an individual retirement account. In the last 10 years of Edward’s life, as his…
Social Security column for March 30
The World Health Organization held the first World Health Assembly in 1948, and, beginning in 1950, every year on April 7 the world comes together to observe World Health Day. Each year, World Health Day focuses on a particular subject…
Retirees headed for rough times
Fifty years ago, Americans could count on a three-legged stool to rest upon in retirement: Social Security payments, a solid pension and the savings they had accumulated during a lifetime of work. Today’s American retirees are about to land on…
10 things you need to know about Monday’s federal health insurance sign-up deadline
Here are 10 things you need to know about Monday’s Health Insurance Marketplace deadline: 1. It’s only sort of a deadline. Anyone who has started the registration process online or by phone, but isn’t able to finish by March 31,…
Eyeing disability backlog, GOP rep. pushes VA accountability
Citing a backlog of disability claims that leaves many disabled veterans waiting months to receive their benefits, Rep. Jackie Walorski, R-Ind., slammed the Department of Veterans Affairs for mismanagement Saturday, saying the VA has “become the epitome of bureaucracy run…