Obamacare fails to address the growing coverage gap. Despite the 2,200 page, $2.5 trillion effort known as the Affordable Care Act and the 20,000 pages of Obamacare regulations, there is a growing coverage gap that Obamacare fails to address. As a result, millions of Americans have ...
Good news for Michigan veterans and surviving spouses with the announcement that there will be a cost of living (COLA) increase for 2015. This means that Michigan veterans benefits for 2015 will have the same increase for 2015 as those who receive ...
‘Pension Poachers’ are “helping” veterans hide assets to ensure they qualify for Aid and Attendance, typically by charging high fees to set up annuities and trusts (up to $10,000). The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has an outrageous backlog of disability claims, ...
People Magazine reports, “Mickey Rooney told a Senate hearing of a real-life drama involving eder abuse, and he spoke from his own personal case history.” Rooney testified that he felt trapped, scared, used and frustrated as he and his (ninth) wife ...
Obamacare has implemented major changes in the United States’ health care system, especially in Medicare. By Chris Berry Obamacare mandates $716 billion in Medicare payment reductions from 2013 to 2022. These across-the-board changes in Medicare payment formulas include a number of Medicare providers, including ...
Standalone Retirement Plan Trust A common question I hear is "who should be named for beneficiaries of an IRA or retirement account?" Should it be the spouse, the kids, the revocable living trust? Typically, I hear, even professionals, say that ...
Life expectancies in the U.S. have gone up again. According to the National Center for Health Statistics, women are living to an average of 81.1 years, and men to an average of 76.3. While living longer is wonderful news, most ...
Ai-jen Poo, co-director of Caring Across Generations (a national coalition of advocacy groups to transform America’s long-term care system), director of the National Domestic Workers Alliance and one of Next Avenue’s 2015 Influencers in Aging, addressed that issue during a ...
Pending Benefits Legislation analyzed, solutions offered, by the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys. In our previous post we discussed the primary areas of concern that the The National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys (NAELA) has provided the Department of Veterans’ Affairs after analyzing S. ...
There’s no better time to start preparing your affairs than right now. For many, it can be uncomfortable to think about, or a task that continually gets put off until some distant tomorrow, but an emergency or accident could happen ...
