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Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation issued the following report, dated December 9, 2020, entitled “Fiscal Year 2020 Annual Report.” Here is the strategic goals and results of the 153- page report:. To help further PBGC's mission, on October 22, 2020, President Donald J. Trump directed by memorandum the Secretary of the Treasury, the Secretary of Commerce, and the…

Neil L. Bradley, executive vice president and chief policy officer at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, has issued a public comment on the Federal Permitting Improvement Steering Council proposed rule entitled “Adding Mining as a Sector of Projects Eligible for Coverage Under the Fixing America's Surface Transportation Act”. The comment was written on Dec. 28, 2020,…

And the ever-present fear as the virus stalked the halls of residential facilities despite all precautions, claiming more than 8,000 lives in long-term care facilities across Florida. This is a bleak situation, made far worse by an underlying reality: Despite recurring scandals, Florida does a bad job of caring for its vulnerable senior citizens.

Mark Morgan, director of the Eastern Oklahoma VA Health Care System, said the expansion will enable the VA to repurpose Muskogee's VA hospital into “a much needed community living and behavioral health center.” “One of the things I had hoped for was that any expansion of VA health services not impact Muskogee,” he said. ” I am pleased at the investment the president and…

Dec. 30— If you want health insurance coverage starting Jan. 1, you'll have to sign up for a policy by midnight Wednesday in California. “Covered California is a critical safety net to help people get quality health care coverage during the surging pandemic and ongoing recession,” Lee said. That penalty, which is administered by California's Franchise Tax Board,…

World shares edged higher on Wednesday as some markets wrapped up trading for 2020, anticipating a dose of fresh support for the U.S. economy and efforts to speed up coronavirus vaccinations to help curb the pandemic. Shares rose in London, Paris, Hong Kong and Shanghai. The United Kingdom government said the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory…

Kate Berry, senior vice president at America's Health Insurance Plans, has issued a public comment on the Drug Enforcement Administration rule entitled “Implementation of the Substance Use-Disorder Prevention That Promotes Opioid Recovery and Treatment for Patients and Communities Act: Dispensing and Administering Controlled Substances for…

A presidential memorandum signed in August temporarily paused a portion of Social Security, called Old Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance, or OASDI, tax currently set at 6.2% of an individual's base pay from Sept. 1 to Dec. 31. To recoup funds, service members and civilians will pay the deferred 2020 Social Security tax as well as the normal 6.2% Social…

The Military Officers Association of America issued the following news:. Now that the coronavirus vaccine is being deployed to the public, you will need reliable sources of information to stay up to speed on the relevant issues. It's too much to cover in one article, so this article includes links to the most comprehensive information regarding insurance…

From securing critical, bipartisan COVID relief for Iowa families, small businesses, hospitals, and farmers, to continuing to hear directly from and be accessible to Iowans across the state on her annual 99 County Tour, U.S. Senator Joni Ernst continued to fight relentlessly and deliver for her home state of Iowa in 2020.. *Fighting for Iowa Small Businesses-…

Ned Lamont signed Dec. 16 allowing eligible taxpayers to defer personal property, real estate and motor vehicle tax payments from Jan. 1 to April 1, municipalities are deciding whether to stick with the same program they selected earlier this year or make changes. This is an extension of an executive order Lamont signed April 1, which applied to property taxes due…

Dec. 30— One disaster 2020 hasn't dumped on the Tuscaloosa area is severe weather, but as the calendar year closes, residents should be alert for possible high winds, heavy rainfall and a chance of tornadoes Thursday evening, rolling into Friday. After a freezing yule in which neighboring counties saw White Christmas flurries, temperatures may shoot as high as 70…

Dec. 30— Like other cities in Orange County and around the world, Newport Beach is not alone in its experiences in a year shaped largely by the ongoing pandemic and sweeping shutdown orders. Here are some of the top stories of Newport Beach in 2020:. Kobe Bryant, Newport Beach residents die in helicopter crash in Calabasas In January, Kobe Bryant, 41; his 13- year- old…

2020 DEC 30– By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at CDC& FDA Daily– New data from ACI Worldwide, a leading global provider of real-time electronic payment and banking solutions, shows that more than a third of consumers will take at least six months to catch up on missed bill payments due to COVID-19. The study, which surveyed 3,000 U.S. adults, also showed that 3 in 10…

DENVER >> The first reported U.S. case of the COVID-19 variant that's been seen in the United Kingdom has been discovered in Colorado, Gov. The variant was found in a man in his 20 s who is in isolation southeast of Denver in Elbert County and has no travel history, state health officials said. Elbert County is a mainly rural area of rolling plains at the far edge of the…

Public health experts say more options in addition to the two vaccines now being dispensed— one made by Pfizer and its German partner BioNTech, the other by Moderna— are critical to amassing enough shots for the country and the world. The coronavirus is blamed for about 1.8 million deaths worldwide, including more than 330,000 in the U.S. This has been the…

On Tuesday, officials in Colorado announced that a man in his 20 s was infected with the novel coronavirus strain, which was first reported in the U.K.. The Colorado case arose just weeks after the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines started to be distributed across the U.S. According to officials, the vaccines likely protect against the new strain. Melissa Nolan, an…

2020 DEC 30– By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Daily News– From Alexandria, Virginia, NewsRx journalists report that a patent by the inventors Slusar, Mark V.; Kleinhenz, Joseph; Huls, Eric D., filed on June 5, 2017, was published online on December 28, 2020. The patent’ s assignee for patent number 10,867,354 is Allstate Insurance Company.