How to Avoid Tax Refund Scams in 2016
Tax refund fraud is rising, but it’s avoidable. The IRS is helping Americans not have their hard-earned tax refunds stolen by scammers.
The IRS is attempting to prevent tax fraud ...
BBB Releases List of Holiday Scams
The Better Business Bureau (BBB) released a list of popular scams that commonly appear in the U.S. and Canada during holidays. Some of the most common scams listed by the BBB include ...
NQF to Review Hospice and Home Health Standards
The National Quality Forum (NQF) has announced a plan to begin reviewing prospective health measures that are under consideration by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. ...
Chart: Most Workers Way Behind Schedule on Retirement Planning, Saving
The Employee Benefit Research Institute (EBRI) released its annual Retirement Confidence survey recently, and the survey revealed an important reality: most workers are behind schedule ...
Lawmaker Proposes Linking Nursing Homes’ HUD Loan Eligibility to CMS Quality Ratings
A U.S. representative this week filed legislation that would link a nursing home’s eligibility for federally backed loans to the facility’s CMS quality ratings.
The legislation ...
16 States Oppose Nursing Home Pre-Dispute Arbitration Clause; Takes Power “Out of Hands of Consumer”
It’s common practice, when being admitted to a nursing home, for the resident to sign a pre-dispute arbitration clause – a document that forces residents to agree up-front ...
Nursing Home Industry Says Proposed Rules Are Too Burdensome
The Center for Medicare Services this summer released a sweeping, 400-page rules proposal that aims to improve quality of care and patient safety at long-term-care facilities participating ...
No Social Security Increase in 2016
Before this week, it had only happened two times since 1975. Now, it’s happening again.
There will be no Social Security benefit increase in 2016.
Benefits change on a year-to-year ...
U.S. Senate Hears Testimony on Predatory Pension Advance Schemes
OpenRetirement has occasionally covered the growing business of pension advances—businesses that apply the concept of a payday advance to retirement benefits by giving retirees an ...
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 ...
