In November, Paula Mont did something new: The 86-year-old, who hasn’t left her New Jersey senior living community in nearly a year, went shopping, online.
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Online Shopping Popular With Older Shoppers
Posted on 28 February 2021.
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Medicare Insolvency Looms But There’s A Fix
Posted on 23 February 2021.
The most urgent retirement issue facing the new Biden administration and Congress is not Social Security reform or figuring out how to boost savings in 401(k)s and IRA accounts.
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State Lawmakers Propose Tough New Bills to Curb Drug Costs
Posted on 16 February 2021.
Fed up with a lack of federal action to lower prescription drug costs, state legislators around the country are pushing bills to penalize drugmakers for unjustified price hikes and to cap payment at much-lower Canadian levels.
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Counterfeit N95 Scam Widens As Senator Demands FTC Investigation
Posted on 13 February 2021.
A key U.S. senator is calling on the Federal Trade Commission to investigate N95 mask fraud and federal agents announced the seizure of 1.7 million more counterfeit 3M masks in the New York borough of Queens.
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Financial Calamity: When Life Blows Up Well-Laid Plans
Posted on 11 February 2021.
Job loss, business failure, involuntary retirement, divorce, disability or the death of a breadwinner, these are just some of the ways our finances can force us to come up with a Plan B.
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Got Life Insurance? You May Not Have Enough
Posted on 26 January 2021.
You probably need life insurance if your death would cause financial hardship to someone else. If the only coverage you have is through your job, though, you may not have enough.
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