Over the years, we have constantly warned people to protect their Social Security number. That’s good advice–but if you have Medicare, then it was good advice that was hard to follow since your Medicare card had your Social Security number right on it. Medicare is now changing out all of its beneficiaries’ cards and replacing that Social Security number with an…
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Over the years, we have constantly warned people to protect their Social Security number. That’s good advice–but if you have Medicare, then it was good advice that was hard to follow since your Medicare card had your Social Security number right on it. Medicare is now changing out all of its beneficiaries’ cards and replacing that Social Security number with an…
Aon, a provider of risk management, insurance and reinsurance brokerage, human resources solutions and outsourcing services, issued the following news release:. Aon, the leading global professional services firm providing a broad range of risk, retirement and health solutions, has said that two-thirds of respondents to a recent survey stated they believed…
DEAKIN, Australia, April 24– The Consumers Health Forum of Australia issued the following news release:. Australia’s Health Panel will, for the first time provide a national platform for people to register their views on health issues that are touching their lives, whether it be access to the right care, costs or issues of safety and quality. “Australia’s Health…
Embrace Pet Insurance surveyed over 4,000 policyholders on pet-friendly workplace benefits from bringing their dog to work to discounts on pet insurance. “Having dogs around in a high-stress, fast-paced work environment offers a much-needed connection to reality,” according to Robert Dorsey, an employee at SimplePart, a software company in the…
–Anpac Bio-Medical Science Co., Ltd., an international life sciences corporation with operations in the United States and Asia, announced today a 386% increase growth in its insurance sector revenue in the first quarter of 2018, over the same period in 2017; due largely to securing key partnerships and contracts with several of the world’s largest insurance…
As baby boomers approach retirement age, the time to grow investments in the stock market dwindle further and further. As the post reported, only about 1 in 3 baby boomers has $250,000 or more in retirement assets saved up. For example, notes the post, Self-Directed IRAs allow individuals age 50 and older to put $1,000 away each year in Roth IRA and Traditional IRA…
Republican Debbie Lesko won Tuesday’s special election in Arizona’s 8th Congressional District, keeping the U.S. House seat in GOP control but by a much narrower margin than expected. The former state senator defeated Hiral Tipirneni, a former emergency room physician who had hoped to replicate surprising Democratic wins in Republican strongholds. President Donald Trump won the 8th District by 21 percentage points in 2016, but early returns show Lesko winning by just 6 percentage points.
Mike McGuire, D- Healdsburg, has sponsored one of the measures, Senate Bill 897, which would require carriers to pay out at least 80 percent of the maximum limit under a homeowner’s personal property coverage without requiring policyholders to itemize their losses. The measure would apply retroactively to those who filed claims in the October fires, which have…
On April 24, 2018, the Centers for Medicare& Medicaid Services proposed changes to empower patients through better access to hospital price information, improve the use of electronic health records, and make it easier for providers to spend time with their patients. The deadline for submitting comments on the proposed rule and the RFI is June 25, 2018.
Congressman Leonard Lance today was ranked one of the most bipartisan lawmakers in Congress. Major accomplishments of this Congress like the bipartisan sanctions on Russia and North Korea and the bipartisan reauthorization of the Children’s Health Insurance Program would not have been possible without the voices in the center. Lance is a member of the…
Mike Kelly, R- Pennsylvania, issued the following news release:. U.S. Representative Mike Kelly- a member of the House Ways and Means Committee- authored a guest opinion piece published today by The Hill in which he describes the damage being caused by the controversial “Cadillac Tax” provision within the Affordable Care Act and argues for Congress to permanently…
Over the years, we have constantly warned people to protect their Social Security number. That’s good advice–but if you have Medicare, then it was good advice that was hard to follow since your Medicare card had your Social Security number right on it. Medicare is now changing out all of its beneficiaries’ cards and replacing that Social Security number with an…
Survivors of Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico can get help with food, housing, transportation and medical equipment even if they have not registered with FEMA. Immediate Disaster Case Management is a FEMA funded program that assigns a case manager to work with applicants one-on-one, directing them to resources and helping them to develop a personalized…
Nationwide Mutual Insurance issued the following news release:. “Goals” will make its television debut on Thursday, April 26 during first-round coverage of the 2018 National Football League Draft on NFL Network, Fox and ESPN. “When Nationwide chose to be the presenting sponsor of the Walter Payton NFL Man of the Year award in 2014, we made a promise to the league,…
GUAYNABO, Puerto Rico, April 24– The U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Federal Emergency Management Agency issued the following news release:. Survivors at all income levels have experienced the challenges of rebuilding their lives after hurricanes Irma and Maria. Financial preparedness is an essential part of 2018 hurricane season planning.
“This is affecting what you’re filing a year from now,” Mike Mendelsohn, tax partner with PBMares in Newport News, told attendees of a seminar at the Virginia Peninsula Chamber of Commerce offices in Hampton on Tuesday. However, the IRS and local experts are saying employees should double-check to make sure the right amount of taxes are being withheld from their…
But in a flash, he lost $2.5 million of their retirement savings by using it to bet on the volatility of U.S. stock markets. That’s what Joseph Daines, a retired orthopedic surgeon, and his wife Susan allege in a lawsuit against local investment adviser Mark Matsko and his firm Selway Asset Management.
“Cooper should do better,” wrote the editorial board of Virginia’s largest paper, which also serves some of northeastern North Carolina. That editorial in the Virginian-Pilot lamented what it said was North Carolina’s lack of progress compared to Virginia and South Carolina, on the heels of reports that North Carolina has yet to spend anything from a pot of…
