Chicago’s 2014 pension reform law will soon be heard by the state Supreme Court. But there’s another, lower-profile law – one that eliminated COLAs for retirees in the Chicago ...

Under pressure to resolve a budget stalemate that has gone on for over a month, Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf – previously staunchly opposed to any pension reforms that cut benefits ...

The above video tells the story of Ramona Wilson, a retired Ohio woman who was conned out of $50,000 by an ex-felon masquerading as a priest. The man was also her husband — but ...

  Kaiser Health News (KHN) is a nonprofit national health policy news service.  A “sleeper” provision when Congress created Medicare in 1965 to cover health care for seniors, ...

Kaiser Health News (KHN) is a nonprofit national health policy news service. The U.S. Senate unanimously approved legislation Monday night requiring hospitals across the nation to ...

After nearly 30 years, the Obama administration wants to modernize the rules nursing homes must follow to qualify for Medicare and Medicaid payments. The hundreds of pages of proposed ...

The Employee Benefit Research Institute (EBRI) released its annual Retirement Confidence survey recently, and — as usual — the report contained loads of interesting insights. One ...

  LOCKHART, Texas — The call from the nursing home came just before dawn, jolting Martha Sherwood awake. During the night, fire ants had swarmed over her 85-year-old mother, ...

Did New Jersey act illegally when it froze cost-of-living adjustments as part of a 2011 pension overhaul? The state’s high court will soon decide — it was announced on Thursday ...

On August 22-25, Phoenix voters will get a chance to approve or throw out a ballot measure that would overhaul the city’s pension system. Residents are getting used to this routine: ...