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...
Oct 28, 2025 | News
From AARP – By Deirdre Shesgreen – Social Security beneficiaries will get a 2.8 percent increase in their monthly payments for 2026, the Social Security Administration (SSA) announced on Oct. 24. The 2026 cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) is slightly higher than last...
Oct 21, 2025 | News
From the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys (NAELA) – By PRNewswire – The National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys and the Special Needs Alliance, the nation’s leading organizations specifically dedicated to planning for individuals with disabilities, their...
Oct 14, 2025 | News
From WCMH-NBC4i.com — By Ava Boldizar— COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) – A disability advocacy organization has sued the Ohio Department of Behavioral Health, accusing the agency of withholding records tied to alleged abuse and neglect at its facilities, including one in which...
