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Congress Unveils Deal to Overhaul Military Retirement System

The months-long debate over how to overhaul the U.S. military retirement system may be reaching its conclusion. Congress on Tuesday unveiled a bill to act on Pentagon-endorsed recommendations ...
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Seven Questions To Ask When Searching for Assisted Living

Finding reliable data on assisted living isn’t easy. Federal and state statistics can be hard to come by, and it’s often simpler to search for restaurant reviews on Yelp than ...
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Congressional Leaders Ask FDA About Coumadin Safety Following Nursing Home Deaths

The bipartisan leadership of the House Energy and Commerce Committee is asking the Food and Drug Administration how it monitors the safety of the popular blood thinner Coumadin, particularly ...
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Leading Retirement Think Tank Changes Tone on 401k(s)

Research conducted by the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College has traditionally suggested that the trend of shifting from defined benefit plans to defined contribution ...
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Meet The California Family That Has Made Health Policy Its Business

Kaiser Health News (KHN) is a nonprofit national health policy news service. This article was produced as part of a partnership with National Public Radio (NPR). If there’s such ...
What Tom Wolf’s Win Means For Pennsylvania Pensions

Pennsylvania Gov. Wolf Proposes Pension Overhaul Amid Budget Impasse

Pennsylvania has now gone two months without a budget, and the end of the impasse isn’t in sight. In an attempt to jump-start negotiations, Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf on Thursday proposed ...
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Chart: Retirement Income By Source – In 1975 and 2013

Here’s a chart that shows the percentage of a retiree’s income stream that comes from various sources. More people are drawing pensions today than they were 40 years ago ...
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Video: Pros and Cons of Increasing the Social Security Tax Cap

Here’s a segment from PBS NewsHour that explores the idea of raising the limit on the amount of income subject to payroll taxes. How much would raising the cap help Social Security’s ...
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In Pennsylvania Municipality, Pension Boards Sue City Over COLA Cuts

In the city of Scranton, Pennsylvania, the pension boards representing the city’s police and firefighters this weekend sued the city to unfreeze retiree cost-of-living adjustments, ...
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Video: Rethinking Social Security Benefit Calculation – What Are The Pros and Cons of Changing the Benefit Formula

Here’s a segment from PBS NewsHour that examines the pros and cons of reducing Social Security benefits by tying them to cost-of-living increases rather than wage increases. ...
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