seniors

“Anti-Fraud” screening at Social Security eases need for in-person identity checks

In what appears to be a concession due to public outcry over the need to visit a local office to verify identity for some SSA transactions, the Social Security Administration has announced a new “anti-fraud” check which will flag telephone…

How Safe Are your Social Security Benefits?

Well, if you listen to all of the media reports these days, you might very well be concerned amount the safety of this crucial senior benefit program! On any given day, you may read about how “Social Security is going…

Oh no!!! A COLA Forecast Already?

While it is far to early to accurately predict the 2026 Cost of Living Adjustment (COLA) for Social Security recipients, predictions inevitably happens about this time every year. After all, next year’s COLA won’t be known until early-October of this…

Course Correction at the Social Security Administration Sorely Needed

Amid all of the media hyperbole from liberal Democrats in arms about the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) and, most recently, about DOGE activities to cut Social Security fraud and waste, comes a reasoned opinion by a respected media executive…

Some Retirees Will See an Increase in their Social Security payment

If you are among the retired public service workers who receive a government pension, yet did not contribute to Social Security while earning same, you will likely see an increase in your Social Security benefit, starting with your April 2025…

Medicare boosts reimbursement rates; good news for insurers

Shares for U.S. health insurers went up on the stock market yesterday, based on an announcement by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) that they will raise reimbursement rates for Medicare Advantage plans starting in 2026. This is…

Clarifying the Social Security “dead people getting benefits” claim

With a great deal of fanfare, the new Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) implied that many obviously dead people over 120 years of age were receiving Social Security benefits. The Social Security Administration has issued a clarification which disputes that…

Inside the “Iron Mountain”

“Iron Mountain” refers to an actual limestone mine repurposed 65 years ago to house records about Government employees and retirees. It is a behemoth of an underground facility housing over 400 million paper records of the Government’s Office of Personnel…

Social Security is changing; but how?

Social Security sure has been in the media spotlight recently, with many accounts predicting benefit cuts, and some even predicting the demise of the program. Of course, most of that is hyperbolic nonsense, but what is the real situation with…

Social Security promise – broken, or not?

During the recent election cycle, all candidates promised that Social Security “would not be touched.” That included President Trump, who committed that he would not “touch” Social Security. But with the recent events associated with the Department of Government Efficiency…

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