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Compromise, hard choices can work for benefit reduction
Recent reports from the Congressional Budget Office and trustees for Medicare and Social Security underscore the difficult fiscal challenges facing our nation. Although some short-term declines are projected for federal deficits in the next couple of years, the CBO warns…
Adjustments to Social Security important
Imagine if tomorrow morning’s headline was this: “Four hundred thousand to get one half billion dollar boost in income.” The news story announces that thousands of people in three states of the Northern Rockies whose good earning jobs are behind…
Find right time for Social Security
During your working lifetime, with every paycheck you’ve dutifully paid Social Security taxes. When the time comes to retire, will you file for your benefits as soon as possible — age 62 under current guidelines — or will you wait until…
Burns: Federal budget needs closer look
A new organization is seeking support for something we desperately need, but don’t have: A realistic accounting for the unfunded commitments our government made. You can learn about it at www.theinformact.org. The idea is to pass a bipartisan initiative called “The Inform…
Fill the Gaps in Your Retirement Income
People are living longer, so the retirement span has increased. They face rapidly rising health care costs, and given low interest rates, they need a bigger pile of money than they did in the past. At the same time, the full retirement…
Meetings offer details on seniors’ benefits
A training series titled Boomer Ed 101 will be offered for seniors (born between 1948-1953) in El Dorado County this month. Sponsored by the El Dorado County Commission on Aging and County Health and Human Services Agency, it will focus on…
Veterans now have a home, and hope
After leaving the military, Bob Larsen, 55, was at risk for homelessness. He’d lost everything, was consumed by depression, addicted to opiates, and tried four times to end his life. After a time he entered transitional housing, them got approved for…
Social Security is the key to closing black/white wealth gap
One potential benefit that can come from last week’s March on Washington 2013, which commemorated the 1963 civil rights event, is the various data publicized about the current state of economic affairs of black America vis-a-vis the rest of the…
Limited Healthcare Benefits Pushing Seniors and Retirees to …
Many U.S. employers have dramatically reduced or terminated their retirement benefits. This combination of weaker public and private retirement programs is putting enormous financial risk on American retirees. For many years, retirees and seniors have looked to Social Security and…
Capito mobile office visits scheduled for September
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Rep. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., has announced the dates and times of her mobile office for the month of September. State residents can get help with the federal government, including Social Security Administration, Medicare or the Veterans…