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No Special Treatment for Workers With Disabilities, Please
There’s an ignoble side to the Americans with Disabilities Act that I’d really like to see change in Corporate America and beyond. The ADA, the landmark law that prohibits discrimination against people with disabilities in the workplace, can work for and against workers.…
Disability Placard Use Increases But Abuse Goes Unpunished
COLUMBUS, Ohio -Derek Mortland was a professional motorcycle racer until a crash 16 years ago left him paralyzed from the waist down. He is still very active and independent but needs a little extra time and patience to get around.To…
Retirement: Make your nest egg tax-efficient
When calculating living expenses in retirement, many preretirees forget to include taxes, says Andrea Blackwelder, a certified financial planner in Denver. That’s a big mistake because when it comes time to tap your tax-deferred accounts, such as your traditional IRAs…
Yes! Retirement Security Is Attainable
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: It’s great to be unemployed and retired if you can afford it! In recent weeks, since President Obama delivered the State of the Union address and proposed his MyRA program to address…
AMA supports overhaul of Medicare doctors’ pay
WASHINGTON (AP) — The American Medical Association says it strongly supports legislation that would change the way Medicare pays doctors, to emphasize quality care and not just sheer volume of services. The endorsement Monday from AMA President Ardis Dee Hoven provided…
Congress Plans to Dump Medicare’s “Doc Fix”
Lawmakers are moving toward a permanent fix to Medicare’s flawed physician payment system that would completely transform the way the government pays doctors. House and Senate Committee leaders unveiled a measure last week that would repeal Medicare’s sustainable growth rate formula—the current and…
Retired and broke: Social Security and the struggle to make it last
Over the course of their 60-year marriage, Bernard “Bernie” Karpinkski and his wife, Violet, took few chances when it came to their retirement. “From the time we were married, we started saving,” says Bernie, 89, who lives in Pueblo, Colorado.…
Artists with disabilities to showcase their work later this year in Phoenix
Photographers with disabilities will get an opportunity to showcase their work in downtown Phoenix this year in the ninth annual art competition as part of the city’s efforts to promote disability awareness.The competition will take place on Nov. 7 at…
Medicare paid millions to prisoners
Food stamps. Free meals. Cable TV. Unemployment and disability benefits. And now prescription drugs. It’s a good time to be in prison, where inmates are mistakenly receiving tens of millions of dollars in benefits at taxpayer expense. The latest folly comes compliments…
US says Social Security computer outage to affect HealthCare.gov
The Obama administration on Monday said people hoping to enroll in health coverage for March 1 may have trouble applying by Saturday’s deadline because of a planned 62-hour maintenance shutdown of a Social Security Administration computer system. The U.S. Centers for…