Washington Could Become 1st State With A Long-Term Care Benefit
Washington is poised to become the first state to establish a program creating an insurance benefit to help offset the costs of long-term care. The measure, which awaits a final vote in the House, creates a benefit, starting in 2025, with a lifetime maximum of $36,500 per person, indexed to inflation.Read more
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Global Stocks Sink After Wall Street Declines
Asian stock markets have declined after Wall Street sank despite encouraging Chinese economic data. Benchmarks in Shanghai, Tokyo and Seoul and retreated. U.S. stocks ended lower after a sell-off of health care companies, erasing the previous day’s gains. That came despite unexpectedly strong Chinese data showing economic growth held steady in the latest quarter and consumer spending accelerated.
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Stress Testing Your Clients’ Retirement Plans
If you are planning to retire sometime in the next several years, then you should stress test your plans— living arrangements, retirement portfolio and income and anticipated leisure pursuits— because retirement is like your first days in kindergarten, full of surprises. In our 40 s and 50 s, as the pressures of college tuition, aging parents perhaps approaching…
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Let’s Talk About Better E-Policy Delivery
Within the last decade, the industry has striven to make e-delivery the standard. Protective Life began offering it in 2008, with most other insurers quickly following suit. But customers and demanding more efficiency and services all the time. Here are a few tips to improve e-delivery.
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Trump’s Indirect Social Security Fix Already Showing Signs Of Fraying
Stabilizing Social Security for the long term requires a direct approach, and more important, it will demand cooperation from both political parties.
