Jan 10, 2024 | News
From Barron’s — By Elizabeth O’Brien — Planning for your Medicare premiums isn’t on most preretirement checklists, but it’s an important consideration for those with higher incomes. Your Medicare premium for a given year is based on your income from two years...
Jan 2, 2024 | News
From Disability Scoop— By Michelle Diament — A pandemic relief package that was expected to funnel $12.7 billion to states to bolster Medicaid home and community-based services actually distributed nearly three times that much in extra funding, the White House...
Dec 26, 2023 | News
From AARP — By Andy Markowitz — How changes in Social Security, Medicare, taxes and more will affect your finances For most people, retirement finance is a delicate balance between income that’s likely less than what you made while working and expenses that may be...
Dec 19, 2023 | News
From Kiplinger — By Tracy Craig — Unless Congress acts, on Jan. 1, 2026, the estate, gift and generation-skipping transfer (GST) tax exemption amounts will be cut in half. A decrease in the exemption amount could result in significant additional transfer taxes for...
Dec 12, 2023 | News
You can create positive change by applying inclusion, diversity, equity and accessibility (IDEA) principles when you plan your estate. From Kiplinger — By Allison L. Lee — Every single person deserves to exercise agency over the decisions that affect their lives and...
Dec 5, 2023 | News
From AARP — By Bruce Horovitz — Jaclyn Strauss has four words of advice for siblings who want to share the costs of parental caregiving: Play to your strengths. That’s precisely what she and her brother have done in preparation for what they both know will be...
Nov 28, 2023 | News
From Barron’s — By Debbie Carlson — Are you better off giving money to children now when you can see the results of the gift, or making them wait for their inheritance until you have shuffled off this mortal coil? That is the dilemma that millions of parents...
Nov 21, 2023 | News
From Kiplinger — By Allen J. Falke — Parenting is hard. From the moment your child comes into your life, you become responsible for that child until they reach adulthood. But what if something happens to you and your partner? How can you be sure your child is taken...
Nov 14, 2023 | News
From Disability Scoop — By Salvador Hernandez, Los Angeles Times/TNS — A former Amazon employee with Asperger’s syndrome claimed he was bullied and abused by co-workers at a warehouse in San Bernardino, Calif. and the company did nothing when he spoke up. Co-workers...
Nov 7, 2023 | News
From The Associated Press — By Lolita C. Baldor — The number of suicides among U.S. military members and their families dipped slightly in 2022, compared with the previous year, as the Defense Department tries to build prevention and treatment programs to address...
