Tyler Foster
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Medicare covers a medically necessary ambulance ride when other travel would risk your health
Medicare will pay for an ambulance, but only under a test that catches many patients off guard: the ride has to be medically necessary, meaning...
Original Medicare now covers many telehealth visits from home
A retiree in Original Medicare can, right now, see a doctor by video from the kitchen table and have Medicare pay its share — a...
Anti-rejection drugs stay covered for life for Medicare kidney-transplant patients
For decades, Medicare paid for a kidney transplant and then, three years later, stopped paying for the drugs that keep the new organ alive. The...
Medicare pays for a one-time abdominal aortic aneurysm screening for those at risk
An abdominal aortic aneurysm gives almost no warning. The body’s largest artery balloons silently, often for years, until it ruptures — an event that kills...
Medicare covers medical nutrition therapy at no cost for people with diabetes or kidney disease
Among the long list of Medicare services that carry a copay or a deductible, medical nutrition therapy is a rarity: for the people who qualify,...
Many states run a pharmaceutical assistance program that helps seniors pay for prescriptions
Medicare Part D is not the only program that can pay down a senior’s drug bill. A number of states — though far from all...
Every state offers free one-on-one Medicare counseling through its SHIP program
Every state funds free, one-on-one Medicare counseling through a program most enrollees have never heard of: the State Health Insurance Assistance Program, or SHIP. Backed...
A widow or widower can switch between a survivor benefit and their own retirement check to get the most
For a widow or widower, Social Security offers a choice that most beneficiaries never get: two different benefits, drawn from two different records, that can...
A disabled worker’s spouse and children can also draw a monthly check on that worker’s Social Security record
When a worker qualifies for Social Security disability benefits, the payment does not have to stop with the worker. A spouse and children can each...
Legal immigrants who earned 40 work credits can collect Social Security like any other worker
A widespread assumption holds that Social Security retirement benefits are reserved for citizens. They are not. The program pays a monthly retirement benefit based on...
A dependent parent of a worker who dies can qualify for a monthly Social Security parent’s benefit
Most Social Security survivor benefits flow down a generation, to a widow, widower, or child. One little-known benefit runs the other way: an aging parent...
A surviving divorced spouse can collect Social Security survivor benefits when the marriage lasted 10 years
A divorce does not always sever the Social Security tie between two people. When a former spouse dies, the survivor can still draw a monthly...
A Social Security “disability freeze” keeps low-earning years from dragging down your future retirement check
Social Security figures a retirement check from a worker’s highest-earning years, which means a stretch of little or no income can quietly shrink the benefit...
Macy’s plans to close about 150 stores by year’s end
Macy’s is closing in on the finish line of a plan to shut roughly 150 of its namesake department stores, a retrenchment that began in...
Older Americans reported losing billions to fraud last year, with investment scams draining the most
Older Americans reported losing about $2.4 billion to fraud in the most recent year the government tallied, a figure that has quadrupled since 2020, and...
Comcast is paying Xfinity customers $50 with no proof over a data breach, with a September 14 deadline
Current and former Xfinity customers have until September 14 to claim a flat $50 payment, with no documentation required, from Comcast’s $117.5 million settlement over...
