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What the Sequester's Cuts Will Mean for Seniors
As a consequence of congressional gridlock, $85 billion in automatic, across-the-board spending cuts are starting to take effect. ...
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Married Couples Can Maximize Their Social Security Benefits Using File and Suspend
Are you married, with one spouse wanting to retire but the other one prepared to keep working?...
Read moreSocial Security and Veteran's Administration Issue Guidance on Same-Sex Couples
The Social Security Administration (SSA) and the Veteran's Administration (VA) have begun to issue guidance governing the treatment of same-sex marriages.
Read moreSocial Security Benefits to Rise Only 1.5 Percent in 2014
The nation's elderly and disabled Social Security recipients will receive a 1.5 percent increase in payments in 2014 . . . ...
Read moreMedicare Part B Premium to Remain the Same for 2014
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid has announced the 2013 Medicare premiums, deductibles, and coinsurances . . .
Read moreHow Do Divorce and Remarriage Affect Social Security Benefits?
It is common knowledge that husbands and wives are entitled to collect Social Security benefits on their spouses' work records.
Read moreMass. High Court Rules: Trust Principal Not Countable as a Medicaid Resource
The highest court in Massachusetts has ruled that in determining a Medicaid applicant's eligibility for benefits, Medicaid officials cannot count the principal of a trust created by the applicant after she waived her right to any of the principal in...
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