Nonprofit membership organization advocating for Americans aged 50 and older on issues like retirement security, healthcare, and caregiving.
Medicare open enrollment runs through Dec. 7 for coverage that starts Jan. 1, with the Part D out-of-pocket cap rising to $2,400 from $2,100. A 3.6% Social Security raise worth about $75 a month starts in the same year, so enrollees can weigh the new cap against it.
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Social Security will raise benefits 3.6% in 2027 for more than 75 million Americans, the largest increase in four years. Advocates say it will not restore purchasing power already lost, and one group backs two bills to change the index.
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Whoop, accepted into Medicare's ACCESS program, must show better or controlled blood pressure, A1C and LDL cholesterol to be paid in full. Chief medical officer Ami Bhatt told the STAT Summit that simplifying the app comes first for patients 65 and older.
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Naomi Eisenberger and colleagues report that a 1999 finding of 63 percent higher mortality in strained caregivers has mostly failed to replicate. The correction matters to some 63 million US adults who give care, a role popular wisdom says can shave years off a life.
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AARP and the Senior Citizens League project a 2027 Social Security raise of 3.5% to 3.6%, the largest since 2023, with diesel above $6.50 among the drivers. It repays prices already recorded through September, and how far it stretches in 2027 turns on tariffs and chips as much as fuel.
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The GUARD Act, passed by the House on Tuesday, would let five existing Justice Department grant programs pay for the analysts, training and blockchain tracing software that local police say they lack in scam cases.
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Relief for older and disabled homeowners keeps widening in Texas. That leaves first-time buyers still inside the school levy pricing an increase nobody has yet measured for them.
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If the projections hold, most employers spend this decade short of people while being asked for roughly a fifth more output, and a workforce plan that budgets headcount down through automation answers the wrong constraint.
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Pew found 23% of adults 65 and over use ChatGPT, up from 10% a year earlier. Age-cohort variants are now a product surface, and that cohort does not have one.
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John Larson and Bill Cassidy both lost primaries and exit Congress in four months, with the trust fund set to empty in 2032 and benefits scheduled to fall 22.5 percent.
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A six-figure executive took leave, then quit, after $700,000 in family care costs. Care prices are outrunning inflation, and the exit is coming from senior staff.
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