The National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys (NAELA) has declared the month of May as “National Elder Law Month” as an effort to call attention the the legal rights and legal resources available to educate older Americans within their communities. Unlike traditional lawyers, elder law attorneys deal with their clients “holistically” – helping with the…
To help our community answer your life planning legal questions, we are putting on Facebook live-stream sessions every Friday, starting 4/24, 11:00A-11:30A EST. The community is invited to participate w/Q&As. Recordings will be available on Instagram & YouTube. Get your life planning questions answered as we discuss estate planning, probate, guardianship, and medicaid questions. (This…
“I want to provide an update to people who receive benefits from the Social Security Administration. The Department of the Treasury (Treasury) announced on April 1 that Social Security beneficiaries who are not typically required to file tax returns will not need to file an abbreviated tax return to receive an economic impact payment. The…
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RETIRING With its beneficiaries among the most at risk for Covid-19, the agency is relaxing some rules. Health care workers handling a coronavirus test at a drive-through station in Stamford, Conn.Credit…John Moore/Getty Images Older Americans are at a high risk for serious illness from the coronavirus, and most who are over age 65 are covered by…
Major Consumer Protections Announced in Response to COVID-19 This article, which will be updated as developments warrant, seeks to list the actions federal and state agencies as well as businesses are taking to aid consumers in light of the COVID-19 epidemic. These actions include suspensions on foreclosures, evictions, and terminations on telecommunications and utility service,…
In the movie “Paper Moon,” a con man during the Great Depression travels from town to town and trawls the deaths notices in the local papers. Then he turns up on the widow’s doorstep, trying to deliver an expensive bible supposedly ordered by her husband just before he died. The movie, which won Tatum O’Neal…
By: Megan Kamerick NPR Published: January 20th, 2020 Kendra Gonzales coaches Linda Haverty on how to add a photo of a friend to her contacts list on her phone. Megan Kamerick/KUNM The United States now has 46 million people age 65 or older. That’s a record number, according to a study by the Pew Research Center….
By Chris Serres Star Tribune Published JANUARY 16, 2020 DAVID JOLES – STAR TRIBUNE FILE. In 2017, Lisa Papp-Richards installed a camera to monitor the care of her mother, Mary Ann Richards, 77, at a nursing home in Bemidji, taking advantage of a new law that permits electronic monitoring devices in senior facilities. At 2 a.m….
BY ALFRED LUBRANO THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER PUBLISHED DEC 12, 2019 The Trump administration is proposing changes to Social Security that could terminate disability payments to hundreds of thousands of Americans, particularly older people and children. The new rule would change aspects of disability reviews the methods by which the Social Security Administration determines whether a…
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