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August is Back to School Month for families with school age children. The National Retail Federation (NRF) notes that consumers were cutting back on non-essential items or shopping sales in order to afford back to school supplies with the current inflation rate. For...
The Social Security Administration operates a Compassionate Allowance Program that identifies certain medical conditions that it will consider disabling. These conditions allow SSA to accelerate claims processing for disability. These medical conditions usually...
Recently a client inquiring about SSI (Supplemental Security Income) benefits asked me how people are supposed to live on the benefit. SSI is a disability or retirement program for low income individuals; many of whom do not have a work history or sufficient work...
Annually observed by the Centers for Disease Control, August is National Immunization Awareness Month. You can find more information about National Immunization Awareness Month here(https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/events/niam/index.html.). To date just over 70% of...
The Senate Budget Reconciliation Bill, known as the Inflation Reduction Act, passed the Senate last Sunday. The bill reduces drug spending by the federal government on Medicare. The bill allows Medicare to negotiate the price of certain high-cost medications, caps...
Catching COVID-19 a second or more time heightens one’s risk for contracting Long COVID. A recent Veterans Administration Health Study found that the risk of Long COVID increased with each subsequent re-infection. Long COVID symptoms include malaise, fatigue,...
This week marks the 32nd anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act, signed into law on July 26, 1990. According to data from the CDC, approximately 61 million Americans live with disabilities. This means one in four Americans live with a severe medical...
Injuries like those that occur in a fall, a car accident or a work accident or even a sudden chronic severe medical condition can prevent a person from returning to work full-time. Private long-term disability insurance can offset this loss of income. According to...
Next year, Social Security disability beneficiaries may be able to earn a higher amount per month without it having an effect on their eligibility for benefits. This and other changes could be coming to the Social Security Administration as early as 2023. Experts...
Can you invest your Social Security Disability benefits in a Roth IRA? Roth IRAs are a type of individual retirement account that can allow you to save earned income while allowing that income to grow. You can withdraw that income at a certain point of time in the...