Ohio NAELA News
Welcome to the news blog of the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys Ohio Chapter. Here we share news related to Elder Law, Estate Planning, Probate and Special Needs Planning, Veterans Benefits and more — for the benefit of our Chapter members, and the general public seeking more information about Elder Law.
Sorry, your kids don’t want your stuff or your parents’ stuff
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 haven't unpacked...
2026 Social Security COLA hits today for SSI recipients, January for retirees
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...
VA Insurance and the Accelerated Benefit Option
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...
IRS issues final regulations on new Roth catch-up rule for high-earners
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...
Second round of Medicare-negotiated drug price cuts expected to save billions in 2027
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...
Health and Human Services officially rescinds shutdown layoffs
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...
How a bit of empathy would help during the signing of legal documents
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...
Promising clinical trials in Alzheimer’s prevention reported
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 caused by rare genetic mutations...
A new right to appeal ‘Observation Status’ in Medicare
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...