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Politics, CPI-E, and the COLA

Following up on yesterday’s post about the lack of a Social Security COLA (cost of living adjustment) in 2016, today the Huffington Post...

No Raises Next Year!

Reuters reported earlier today that the Social Security Administration has announced no Cost of Living Adjustment in 2016. It’s not an...

Big Phone Scam from Montego Bay, Jamaica

We’ve written before about phone scams, particularly those targeting the elderly. But this particular scam is both big, and close to...

Check Your Retirement Community’s Online Security

The Chicago Sun Times wrote a fairly extensive article yesterday, covering a scam where two Filipinos duped 200 elderly Americans out of...

AMAC: Another Conservative Group for The Elderly

To be honest, it never occurred to us here at the blog that the AARP was a particularly liberal group. We hadn’t really put much thought...

What Are You Doing with the Spray Paint, Grandma?

Hot on the tails of the article this blog covered about seniors engaging in pole dancing, we’ve come across an exciting “urban art”...

Letters on The Future of Social Security

Last week, the New York Times published an opinion piece entitled “Republicans Against Retirement”. Arguably more interesting than the...

5 Tips to Keep You Sharp

It may seem inevitable that one loses mental function as one ages. In fact, it may not be a feeling, it may actually be unavoidable....

Have The Postman Check On Grandpa?

In these days of the Internet and e-everything, it shouldn’t be a surprise that the Postal Service is having a hard time making ends...