seniors

Improving Seniors’ Timely Access to Care Act

Improving Seniors’ Timely Access to Care Act of 2025 was reintroduced by U.S. Senators Roger Marshall, M.D. and Mark Warner on May 20, 2025. The bill if passed will establish requirements with respect to the use of prior authorization under…

The “Big, Beautiful Tax Bill” still needs some attention!

The House Ways & Means Committee has published it’s “one big beautiful bill” to provide government spending in the next fiscal year. And that bill does, in fact, have some very positive aspects, most notably extending the expiring 2017 tax…

About Retiring from a Long Working Career

I remember it well – my first day of retirement from over 40 years working in my chosen professional career. It was a day of both trepidation, but excitement looking forward to living my days according to my own rules,…

About Taxation of Social Security – Most States do not tax benefits

There is a lot of media attention about income tax on Social Security benefits these days, what with Congress debating the possibility of eliminating Federal income tax on SS benefits (as President Trump has asked). But in all the hoopla…

The ongoing Saga of Social Security’s “Full Retirement Age”

Although, for many years, age 65 was considered to be the normal retirement age, for Social Security purposes that changed with legislative changes made in 1983. In that year, legislation was enacted which gradually raised the age at which full…

How Age Affects your SS Disability Claim

Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) is a program for workers who become disabled and unable to work. SSDI is available to disabled workers until they reach their normal Social Security full retirement age, and is intended to replace income lost…

Are you emotionally ready to retire?

Although most retirement planner focus on the financial aspects of achieving a comfortable retirement, don’t forget about the emotional aspects as well. Are you ready to go from a full day of working, along with the related stress of your…

Is increasing Social Security’s full retirement age on the horizon?

Social Security’s full retirement age (FRA) is the point at which you get 100% of the monthly benefit you’ve earned from a lifetime of working. Right now, the FRA for anyone born in 1960 or later is age 67. And,…

New Tax & Spending Bill being considered

The House Ways & Means Committee recently released a draft of the Trump Administration’s planed Tax Bill for the next fiscal year, and that bill could be voted on in the House of Representatives by next week. Of course, the…

2026 COLA: Good news and bad news

The Senior Citizens League (SCL), an advocacy group for seniors, regularly monitors the U.S. cost of living, with an eye towards what next year’s Cost of Living Adjustment (COLA) might be for those collecting Social Security. And even though actual…

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