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- 10 Ways the Elderly Can Avoid Financial Abuse
- 2019 Will Bring Social Security Beneficiaries the Biggest Increase in Eight Years
- 5 Rights that Trust Beneficiaries Have
- 5 Things to Know to Reduce Your Tax on Capital Gains
- Five Tips for Starting Retirement Planning in Your 50s
- 8 Tips for Having 'The Talk' with Elderly Parents
- A Final Retirement Account Distribution Must Still Be Made After Death
- A Modest Raise for Nursing Home Workers Could Save 15,000 Lives a Year: Study
- A Modest Social Security Increase for 2021
- A New Rule May Make It Harder for Medicare Beneficiaries to Receive Home Care
- A Tax Break to Help Working Caregivers Pay for Day Care
- Ability to Withdraw Money Early from Retirement Plan without Penalty Ends at The End of The Year
- About to Turn 65? Your Health Insurer May Be Automatically Enrolling You in Its Own Medicare Plan
- Activities of Daily Living Measure the Need for Long-Term Care Assistance
- Adding to Uncertainty for Scam Targets, the IRS Now Allows Private Debt Collectors to Dun Taxpayers
- Annual Long-Term Care Survey Finds Steep Rise in Assisted Living Facility Costs Amid Pandemic
- Aretha Franklin’s Lack of A Will Could Cause Huge Problems
- More States Asking to Eliminate Retroactive Medicaid Benefits
- Be Careful About Putting only One Spouse's Name on A Reverse Mortgage
- Be on The Lookout for New Medicare Cards (and New Card-Related Scams)
- Beware Medicare's Penalties for Late Enrollment
- Beware of Non-Lawyers Offering Medicaid Planning Advice
- Beware: Your Estate May Contain an Unnecessary Bypass Trust
- Biden Administration May Spell Changes to Estate Tax and Stepped-Up Basis Rule
- A Guidebook to Planning for Old Age
- Budget Deal Blunts Medicare Premium Spike, at Least for Now
- Called for Jury Duty? You May Be Excused Based on Your Age
- Can Social Security Benefits Be Garnished to Pay Debts?
- Can You Put a Surveillance Camera in A Nursing Home Room?
- Can You Transfer Your Medicare and Medicaid Plans when You Move to Another State?
- Can You Visit Nursing Home Residents After They Are Vaccinated?
- Caregivers Are Getting Younger, Making Planning for Long-Term Care Even More Important
- Charitable Giving Options Under the New Tax Law
- Choosing Retirement Account Beneficiaries Requires Some Thought
- Congress Fixes Some, but Not All Medicare Enrollment Problems
- Coronavirus Relief Funds Paid to Deceased Americans Must Be Returned
- Costs of New Long-Term Care Insurance Policies Vary Considerably
- Costs of Some New Long-Term Care Insurance Policies Going Down in 2018
- Costs of Some New Long-Term Care Insurance Policies Rise in Latest Survey
- Court Approves Use of Short-Term Annuities for Medicaid Planning
- Court Overturns Obama Rule Protecting Investors Saving for Retirement
- Despite Pandemic’s Toll, Federal Government Proposes Loosening Infection Control Regulations for Nursing Homes
- Discovery of Aretha Franklin's Handwritten Wills Throws Her Estate Into Turmoil
- Dispute Between Brothers Demonstrates Need to Plan for Long-Term Care
- Do Frequent Flier Miles Expire when You Do?
- DOL Announces That Fiduciary Rule Will Go Into Effect June 9
- Don’t Forget to Fund Your Revocable Trust
- Don't Let Medicare Open Enrollment Go by Without Reassessing Your Medicare Options
- Don't Make the Mistake of Not Signing up For Medicare Supplemental Coverage
- Don't Wait Too Long to Purchase Long-Term Care Insurance
- Drafting a Power of Attorney that Lessens the Chances of Abuse
- Elder Law Attorneys to Present Free Webinar on What to Expect from Trump and The New Congress
- Estate Planning and Retirement Considerations for Late-In-Life Parents
- Estate Planning During a Divorce: Five Key Considerations
- Estate Planning Is Essential for Unmarried Couples
- Estate Planning when You Have a Stepfamily
- Estate Planning when You Live in Two States
- Execute a Power of Attorney Before Its Too Late
- Fear of Losing Home to Medicaid Contributed to Elder Abuse Case
- Feds Release 2020 Guidelines Used to Protect the Spouses of Medicaid Applicants
- Fighting Nursing Home Discrimination Against Medicaid Recipients
- Finding the Best Retirement Calculators
- Five Estate Planning Myths
- Florida School Shooting Hits Home for Elder Law Answers Member Attorney
- For Better or For Worse, States Are Turning to Managed Care for Medicaid Long-Term Care
- For First Time, Median Cost of Private Nursing Home Room Hits Six Figures in Annual Survey
- Four Provisions People Forget to Include in Their Estate Plan
- Four Social Security Myths Debunked
- Four Steps You Can Take to Protect Your Digital Estate
- Four Things People Forget to Include in Their Estate Plan
- Four Ways the Coronavirus Pandemic May Affect Long-Term Care Insurance
- Free Tax Preparation Help Is Available to Most Seniors
- Georgia Elder Law Answers Member Attorney Wins Fiction Writing Contest
- Getting Paid as A Family Caregiver Through Medicaid
- GOP Tax Plan Could Deal Blow to Seniors Paying for Long-Term Care
- Grandparents Raising Grandchildren May Qualify for The Earned Income Tax Credit
- Feds Release 2019 Guidelines Used to Protect the Spouses of Medicaid Applicants
- Guns and Dementia: Dealing with A Loved One's Firearms
- Have Private Insurance and Are Turning 65? You Need Sign up For Medicare Part B
- Home Care Costs Rise Sharply in Annual Long-Term Care Cost Survey
- Home Health Care Patients with Chronic Conditions Are Having Trouble Getting Medicare
- Hospitals Now Must Provide Notice About Observation Status
- How Does the Coronavirus Relief Bill Affect Seniors?
- How Does the Medicaid Look-Back Period Work?
- How Likely Are You to Need Long-Term Care?
- How Low Nursing Home Wages Are Contributing to Covid-19's Spread
- How Medicare and Employer Coverage Coordinate
- How Secure Is Social Security?
- How the Coronavirus Has Brought Ageism Into Stark Relief
- How to Appeal a Medicare Prescription Drug Denial
- How to Assist Aging Parents During the Pandemic
- How to Choose a Trustee
- How to Create an Estate Plan that Includes Your Pet
- How to Deal with Student Loan Debt as You Age
- How to Deduct Long-Term Care Premiums from Your Income
- How to Divide up Personal Possessions without Dividing the Family
- How to Fix a Required Minimum Distribution Mistake
- How to Get Good Hospice Care: Hard-Won Advice from The Pennsylvania Nurse Prosecuted for Aiding Her Father’s Death
- How to Handle Sibling Disputes Over a Power of Attorney
- How to Include Cryptocurrency in An Estate Plan
- How to Pass Your Home to Your Children Tax-Free
- How to Plan Your Funeral
- How to Protect Your Deceased Loved Ones from Identity Theft
- How to Vote While in A Nursing Home
- How Will the Coronavirus Pandemic Affect Social Security?
- How Will the New Tax Law Affect You?
- How Would the Presidential Candidates Change Social Security?
- How Your IRA Can Benefit Both Your Heirs and Charity
- How Your Stimulus Check Affects Medicaid
- Husbands Usually Don’t Consider Their Wives’ Future when Deciding when To Take Social Security Benefits
- Hybrid Policies Allow You to Have Your Long-Term Care Insurance Cake and Eat It, Too
- If My Husband Enters a Nursing Home, Can I Keep Some of His Income to Meet My Own Expenses?
- If You Haven’t Been Regularly Reviewing Your Estate Plan, Start when You Hit 60
- If Your Estate Plan Includes IRAs, A New Law Means It Is Time to Reevaluate
- Incentive Trusts: Ensuring that An Inheritance Will Be Well Spent
- Incentives to Keep Working While You Collect Social Security
- IRS Issues Long-Term Care Premium Deductibility Limits for 2016
- IRS Issues Long-Term Care Premium Deductibility Limits for 2017
- IRS Issues Long-Term Care Premium Deductibility Limits for 2018
- IRS Issues Long-Term Care Premium Deductibility Limits for 2019
- IRS Issues Long-Term Care Premium Deductibility Limits for 2020
- IRS Issues Long-Term Care Premium Deductibility Limits for 2021
- Is It Better to Use Joint Ownership or A Trust to Pass Down a Home?
- It's Important to Shop Around for Your Medigap Policy
- It’s Now Harder for Veterans to Qualify for Long-Term Care Benefits
- It’s Open Enrollment Season: Is Your Medicare Plan Still Working for You?
- It's Time to Reassess Your Medicare Choices
- Jumbo Reverse Mortgages Are Increasingly Available for High-Value Homes
- Know Your Options Before Signing up For Medicare
- Last Chance to Use File and Suspend Strategy for Claiming Social Security Benefits
- Last Year for Couples to Use 'claim Now, Claim More' Later Social Security Strategy
- Law Firms Devising Creative Strategies to Help Clients Safely Execute Estate Planning Documents During Pandemic
- Lawsuit Alleges Assisted Living Facilities Discriminate Against Wheelchair Users
- Learn About Social Security's Online Tools
- Life Insurance Can Still Play a Key Role as Part of An Estate Plan
- Long-Reviled Military ‘Widow’s Tax’ Is Finally Being Phased Out
- Long-Term Care Insurance Policyholder Wins Suit Against Company for Raising Premiums
- Long-Term Care Insurance Premiums Have Soared in Past Year
- Long-Term Care Insurer Cannot Be Sued for Elder Financial Abuse
- Make Reviewing Your Estate Plan One of Your New Year's Resolutions
- Make Sure You Are Counted in The 2020 Census
- Make Sure Your Beneficiary Designations Match Your Estate Plan
- Married Couples Need an Estate Plan
- Maximizing Social Security Survivor's Benefits
- Medicaid Home Care
- Medicaid's Benefits for Assisted Living Facility Residents
- Medicaid’s Coverage of Nursing Home Care
- Medicare and Medicaid Will Cover Coronavirus Testing
- Medicare Announces Parts A and B Premiums and Deductibles for 2016
- Medicare Beneficiaries May Be Eligible for An Extra 100 Days of Skilled Nursing Coverage Due to Pandemic
- Medicare Beneficiaries Need to Know the Difference Between a Wellness Visit and A Physical
- Medicare Coverage While Traveling Within the U.S.
- Medicare Drug Cards May Be Sent out In January
- Medicare Extends Deadline for Relief from Part B Penalties
- Medicare Is Expanding Telehealth Services During Coronavirus Pandemic
- Medicare Launches App to Help Beneficiaries Find out What's Covered
- Medicare May Not Cover the Coronavirus Vaccine After All
- Medicare Now Covers Conversations About End-Of-Life Care
- Medicare Now Covers Outpatient Treatment for Opioid Addiction
- Medicare Open Enrollment Means It's Time to Shop Around
- Medicare Open Enrollment Starts October 15: Is It Time to Change Plans?
- Medicare Pilot Program Allows for Hospice Coverage While Still Fighting a Disease
- Medicare Premium to Edge up In 2019
- Medicare Premiums to Increase by Almost $10 a Month in 2020
- Medicare Premiums to Increase Slightly in 2021
- Medicare's Different Treatment of The Two Main Post-Hospital Care Options
- Most Are Taking Social Security at The Wrong Time
- Most Caregivers Are Now Entitled to Minimum Wage and Overtime Pay
- Movement Grows to Add Dental Coverage to Medicare
- Moving to A New State? Be Sure to Update Your Estate Plan
- New Book Offers Guidance Through the Medicare Maze
- New Federal Budget Ends Two Spousal Social Security Claiming Strategies
- New Federal Law Puts Focus on Preventing Elder Abuse
- New Law Expands Benefits for Chronically Ill Medicare Advantage Beneficiaries
- New Law Set to Make Big Changes to Retirement Plans
- New Medicare Payment Method Causing Cuts to Home Health Care Services
- New Medicare Rule Encourages Doctors to Test for Alzheimer's Disease and Offer Care Planning
- New Protections for Nursing Home Residents
- New Regulations Will Make It Harder to Qualify for Long-Term Care Help from The VA
- New Rule Once Again Allows Nursing Home Arbitration Agreements
- New Rules Will Make It Harder to Qualify for Long-Term Care Help from The VA
- New Brokerage Account Safeguards Aim to Protect Seniors from Financial Scams
- New York Imposes Restrictions on Medicaid Eligibility for Home Care
- New Yorker Article Highlights Abuses in The Guardianship System
- Nursing Home Care Costs Are only Slightly Higher in 2016
- Nursing Home Costs Rise Sharply in 2017
- Nursing Home Residents Face Even Greater Barriers to Voting Amid Coronavirus Pandemic
- Nursing Home Residents Win Back Right to Sue
- Nursing Homes Are Evicting Residents to Make Room for Coronavirus Patients
- Obama Signs Law Requiring Hospitals to Warn of Costly Medicare Loophole
- Owe Back Taxes? the IRS May Grant You Uncollectible Status
- Pandemic Relief: Retirement Account Owners Do Not Have to Take Required Distributions in 2020
- Part B Premium Will Rise Slightly for Most Medicare Beneficiaries in 2017
- Pay Attention to Your State Estate Tax Exemption
- Paying Taxes when Selling an Inherited Vacation House
- Premiums for New Long-Term Care Insurance Policies Actually Decline in Some Cases
- Problems with Guardianship Abuse Leading to Calls for Reform
- Problems with Guardianship System Is Focus of John Oliver Show
- Proposed New Medicare Payment System May Affect Beneficiaries
- Proving Age Discrimination Is Difficult
- Proving that A Transfer Was Not Made in Order to Qualify for Medicaid
- Repealing Obamacare Will Have Consequences for Medicare
- Report Finds Lack of Government Oversight of Assisted Living Facilities
- Report Ranks States on Nursing Home Quality and Shows Families' Conflicted Views
- Reports Find Hospice Deficiencies Go Unaddressed
- Robin Williams' Death Laid to Underdiagnosed Form of Dementia
- Say It Loud: Fight Over James Brown’s Estate May Finally Be Drawing to A Close
- Seniors Affected by The Coronavirus Pandemic Have More Time to Apply for Medicare or Change Plans
- Seniors and Adults with Special Needs Who Are Claimed as Dependents Will Not Get Coronavirus Relief Payment
- Short-Term Care Insurance: An Alternative to The Long-Term Care Variety
- Should an Annuity Be Part of Your Retirement Planning?
- Should Seniors Who Lose Their Job During the Coronavirus Pandemic Claim Social Security Benefits Early?
- Should You Bring Your Parent Home from The Nursing Home During the Coronavirus Pandemic?
- Should You Sell Your Life Insurance Policy?
- Social Security Beneficiaries Will Receive a 2 Percent Increase in 2018
- Social Security Benefits to Remain Flat in 2016, While Millions Could Get Stuck with Huge Medicare Increases
- Social Security Offices Shuttered in Response to Coronavirus Outbreak
- Some Nursing Homes and Assisted Living Facilities Are Snatching Residents’ Pandemic Relief Checks, FTC Warns
- Special Ownership for Married Couples: Tenancy by The Entirety
- Special Tax Deduction for 2020 Allows Donations of $300 to Charity without Itemizing
- States Begin Offering State-Run Retirement Plans
- States May Not Terminate Medicaid Benefits During the Coronavirus Pandemic
- States Move to Immunize Nursing Homes from Liability During Coronavirus Pandemic
- Staying Connected to Family Members in A Nursing Home when Visits Are Banned
- Study Finds that Social Security Workers Often Provide Incomplete Information
- Are Medicare Advantage Plans Steering Enrollees to Lower-Quality Nursing Homes?
- The 2020 Social Security Increase Will Be Smaller than 2019's
- The Benefits and Drawbacks of Buying an Annuity Doubler to Pay for Long-Term Care
- The Best and Worst States for Protection Against Elder Abuse
- The Complex Modern Family Requires a New Planning Model, Book Argues
- The Coronavirus Pandemic May Be a Good Time to Reevaluate Your Estate Plan
- The Hardship Exception to The Medicaid Penalty Period: Rare but Possible
- The Hazards of Do-It-Yourself Estate Planning
- The Little-Known Tax on Roth 401(k) Distributions
- The Most Important Estate Planning Documents
- The New Tax Law Means It's Time Review Your Estate Plan
- The Trump Administration Allows States to Choose Medicaid Block Grants
- The Use of Immediate Annuities in Medicaid Planning for Married Couples
- Three Changes You May Want to Make to Your Estate Plan Now Due to The Pandemic
- Tips on Creating an Estate Plan that Benefits a Child with Special Needs
- Trump Delays Rule that Retirement Advisers Put Their Client's Interests Ahead of Their Own
- Typical Social Security Recipient Will Get $4 Benefit Increase in 2017
- Understanding how Assets Are Distributed in A Will
- Understanding Medicare's Hospice Benefit
- Understanding Revocable Trusts
- Understanding the Differences Between a Living Trust and An Irrevocable Trust
- Understanding the Tax Consequences of Inheriting a Roth IRA
- Use Your Will to Dictate how To Pay Your Debts
- Using a Donor-Advised Fund May Be a Way to Get a Charitable Tax Break Under the New Tax Law
- Using Estate Planning to Prepare for Medicaid
- Using Life Insurance as Part of Your Estate Plan
- Utah Hospitals May Implement Age-Based Care Rationing in Response to Coronavirus Pandemic
- Watch out For Mistakes in The List of Doctors Covered by Your Medicare Advantage Plan
- Watch out For These Potential Problems with Life Estates
- What Can You Do to Protect Your Loved One in A Nursing Home During the Pandemic?
- What Happens when A Nursing Home Closes?
- What Is a Life Estate?
- What Is Cost Basis and How Do You Prove It?
- What Is Critical Illness Insurance and Is It Worth Buying?
- What Is Long-Term Care and Who Provides It?
- What Is the Difference Between a Living Will and A Do-Not-Resuscitate Order?
- What Is Undue Influence?
- What Makes a Will Valid?
- What to Do and Not Do with Your Estate Planning Documents
- What to Do if You Are Appointed Guardian of An Older Adult
- What to Look for In a Pre-Paid Funeral Plan
- What to Look for When Buying an Annuity
- What to Look for When Choosing a Medicare Advantage Plan
- What You Can’t Do with a Will
- When Buying a Medigap Policy, It Really Pays to Shop Around
- When Can an Adult Child Be Liable for A Parent's Nursing Home Bill?
- When Can You Delay Taking Medicare?
- When Inheriting Property, Consider Your Options
- When Planning Your Estate, Don’t Let the Perfect Be the Enemy of The Good
- Where Trump and Biden Stand on Issues Important to Older Americans
- Where’s My Coronavirus Relief Payment? Well, It Depends.
- Where’s My New Medicare Card? How to Find out The Status
- Which Nursing Home Rating System Should You Trust?
- Who Should Purchase Long-Term Care Insurance?
- Who Will Inherit Whitney Houston's Fortune Following Bobbi Kristina's Death — and What Are the Lessons?
- Will Electronic Wills Be the New Normal?
- Will Medicare Cover a Coronavirus Vaccine?
- Will My Advance Directive Work in Another State?
- Will Trump’s Immigration Policy Cause a Shortage of Caregivers for The Elderly?
- Woman's Efforts to Change Will without Professional Assistance Backfire
- Yes, You Can Receive Unemployment and Social Security at The Same Time
- Your Right to Refills if Medicare Drops Coverage of Your Drugs
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