Jan 13, 2026 | News
From CMS.gov – The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services – The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently released the 2026 premiums, deductibles, and coinsurance amounts for the Medicare Part A and Part B programs, and the 2026 Medicare Part...
Jan 6, 2026 | News
Millennials are getting stuck inheriting collections of ‘stuff’ and they’re not having it From Next Avenue – By Richard Eisenberg – There are 10 overstuffed boxes in the living room of Nick Fox and his wife Sarah. It’s not that the Millennial couple...
Dec 31, 2025 | News
From the U.S. Social Security Administration — Social Security and Supplemental Security Income (SSI) benefits for 75 million Americans will increase 2.8 percent in 2026. The 2.8 percent cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) will begin with benefits payable to nearly 71...
Dec 23, 2025 | News
From the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs — VA has announced an amendment to the Servicemembers’ Group Life Insurance (SGLI), Family SGLI (FSGLI), and Veterans’ Group Life Insurance (VGLI) Accelerated Benefit Option (ABO) regulation. This update allows an alternate...
Dec 9, 2025 | News
From the Internal Revenue Service – The Department of the Treasury and the Internal Revenue Service recently issued final regulations addressing several SECURE 2.0 Act provisions relating to catch-up contributions. (Catch-up contributions are additional contributions...
Dec 2, 2025 | News
From AARP – By Tony Pugh – Newly announced savings on 15 high-cost medications include popular Ozempic family of weight-loss drugs Fifteen additional expensive and widely used prescription drugs will have lower negotiated prices for Medicare beneficiaries in 2027, the...
Nov 25, 2025 | News
From KFF Health News/The Hill – By Nathaniel Weixel – The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has brought back everyone it laid off during the government shutdown, a top official told a California federal court Friday. The agency’s Office of Human Resources...
Nov 18, 2025 | News
From Next Avenue – By Myrna Marofsky – Recently, I sat in a law office at a long conference table with my two daughters beside me. Across from us was an attorney with a stack of legal pages for me to sign. They were documents that I had spent months thinking about and...
Nov 11, 2025 | News
From CBSNews via MSN – By Jon LaPook – “I just know that my brain’s not right,” said Carrie Richardson, 44. “And so, I hate it. I just want it to be normal.” At 41, Carrie developed early-onset Alzheimer’s disease. The condition is...
Nov 4, 2025 | News
From the NAELA News + Journal Online – By Alice Bers, J.D. – After over a decade of litigation, a court finally held that HHS violates the Fifth Amendment due process rights of beneficiaries when it prohibits appeals by patients who are admitted as inpatients but then...
