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Senior Living Q & A: Getting your affairs in order
Q. With the beginning of the new year, I’ve been thinking about getting my affairs in order. What do I need to do? Here is a list of some of the less obvious topics a personal executor may need to have access to upon a moment’s notice:...Tags: Health Insurance, Personal Data Collection, Charity, Interior Policy, Politics
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Legislators try to revive old bills
Local lawmakers used a brief legislative session this month to dust off old bills that never made it, and to push new proposals ahead of the new year. State Sen. Carol Liu (D-La Caņada Flintridge) reintroduced two measures that failed last year,...Tags: California, Business, Credit and Debt, Laws, Small Businesses
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Challengers eye Dreier's Congressional seat
Thirty years after he was first elected to Congress, David Dreier looks poised to retain his job representing the 26th District in Washington D.C. Nov. 2 will mark the 16th time the Republican Congressman's name has appeared on the ballot, and if he wins...Tags: California, Economy, Business and Finance, Business, Small Businesses, Gun Control
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Our Readers Write: Middle class needs to unite, vote
Wow, this election cycle is really astonishing; the money flow, the heated rhetoric, the extreme views! I believe that the anticipated demise of our majority democratic government is greatly exaggerated. It can only happen if the majority of voters is...Tags: California, Event Planning, Environmental Issues, Illegal Immigrants, Health
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Senior Living: In-home help options
Q. My mom recently broke her kneecap and needs assistance in bathing. I can't help her because I have back problems. What sort of care is available? — Diane, La Crescenta First, contact her doctor and ask him/her to prescribe home health for...Tags: Medical Procedures and Tests, Health, Health and Medical Professionals, Family, Career and Workplace
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Senior Living Q & A: Reaping Social Security
Q. Can you give me some insight into ways my wife and I can maximize our Social Security payments? — Mike, La Caņada A lot depends on whether your wife worked, and if she worked, for how long. If she didn't work the 40 quarters required to collect...Tags: Retirement, Career and Workplace, Health and Safety at School, Education, Wages and Pensions
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Thursday letters to the editor
Politicians held to higher standard My Mother's Day breakfast was interrupted with the article on Commissioner Dale Holness and the claim that he was just another victim of the real estate situation here in Broward County. The fact that he claims he was...Tags: Turkey (animal), Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test, Deerfield Beach, Politics, Real Estate Buyers
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ACLU challenges schools over Social Security numbers on enrollment forms
The American Civil Liberties Union of Florida has given the Orange and Osceola county school districts an F grade for not indicating that providing Social Security numbers on enrollment forms is optional, a requirement based on federal law and court...
Tags: Career and Workplace, Labor Legislation, American Civil Liberties Union, Personal Data Collection, Politics
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Alan Simpson pens scathing letter to 'greedy geezers' retiree group
WASHINGTON -- Former Sen. Alan Simpson has again unleashed his sharp tongue on critics, this time in the form of a scathing letter that accuses the California Alliance for Retired Americans of being “greedy geezers.” The Oakland-based retiree...
Tags: Fox News Channel (tv network), Health, Government Health Care, Politics, Public Finance
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Consumer index hints of lower COLA in 2013 for seniors
Seniors be warned: Your Social Security cost of living adjustment for next year may be less than half of this year's 3.6 percent increase. That's because the inflation rate that Social Security increases are pegged to is only 1.7 percent as of the...
Tags: Petroleum Industry, Economy, Business and Finance, Market and Exchange, Health, Economic Indicator
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Health care and taxes
There has been a lot of controversy about the new health care law that is now being considered by the Supreme Court. I cannot see how the government can force everybody to buy health insurance. Seems to me that would be a direct violation of our...Tags: Health Insurance, Health
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Adjust income tax on Social Security benefits
Several people have commented about paying income tax on some of their Social Security income. I have written to members of Congress and to AARP that the tax is also unfair because the original taxable thresholds were never indexed for inflation. Not...Tags: Hellertown, Inflation and Deflation, Personal Income
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