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The Pension Check They Can Now Ask You to Trade In

For roughly a decade, there was a specific protection built into federal pension rules: a company could offer

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The No-Payment Loan That Still Has a Payment

A reverse mortgage is marketed, accurately, as a loan with no required monthly payment, a way for a

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The Wait Time That's Changing When People Retire

The Social Security Administration has lost more than eight thousand employees over the past fifteen months, its largest

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The Policy That Was Priced Wrong Thirty Years Ago

Thousands of long-term care insurance policyholders have received a letter this year they never expected when they

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The Hospital Stay That Doesn't Count as a Stay

A senior can spend three nights in a hospital bed, receive the same tests, the same monitoring, the

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The Heating Aid That Has Money but No Staff

The federal program that helps low-income households, most of them seniors or people with disabilities, pay their

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The Safety Feature That's Quietly Raising Your Premium

Car insurance for older drivers has been climbing sharply, with premiums for drivers between 60 and 80 rising

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The Waiting List That Only Exists for Staying Home

If a Medicaid-eligible senior needs a nursing home bed, Medicaid has to provide one. It's

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The Agency's Mistake, Your Monthly Check

The rate at which the Social Security Administration is allowed to claw back an overpayment from a beneficiary&

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