Explore
This is the year to reshop your Part D plan!
Do Not Skip Reshopping for 2025 during the Open Enrollment Period Well, this year’s Medicare Open Enrollment Period is loaded for bear. It is definitely not the year to skip reshopping your Part D plan. The window to reshop your…
Continue Reading This is the year to reshop your Part D plan!
2025 Social Security COLA set at 2.5%
There’s always a tremendous amount of speculation about Social Security’s annual cost of living (COLA) increase. In fact, the first soothsayers stir the pot as early as February or March each year. Yet the COLA is only announced after inflation…
ERISA Turns 50. Happy Birthday!
Have you embraced becoming your own pension manager? When I was 13 years old, then President Gerald Ford celebrated Labor Day by signing ERISA into law. ERISA is the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (pronounced a-ris-a). And it is one…
Get Ready for Big 2025 Medicare Part D Changes
Are you already in Medicare and have your prescriptions covered by a Part D plan? Or maybe you are reading this because you will be starting Medicare in the next few years? Either way, it’s important to get up to…
Continue Reading Get Ready for Big 2025 Medicare Part D Changes
2024 Inflation: Implications for Lasagna, Ice Cream, and Retirement Income
June 2024 data shows prices moderating, but grocery bills still high July is my favorite month of the year. It has some very important dates including National Ice Cream Day on July 21st this year. Plus, my birthday and anniversary,…
Continue Reading 2024 Inflation: Implications for Lasagna, Ice Cream, and Retirement Income