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Senate Says No to Senior Stipend

The senate rejected the $250 check to elderly, veterans and people with disabilities.  This especially hurts the elderly since there was no cost of living increase this year.
Read more here, Senate rejects $250 checks for elderly.

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Seniors and Voting

Over the weekend, Grandma waits until the weekend to ask me about how to go about filing an absentee ballot. I told her that the deadline probably passed to file, but she still insisted that I go ahead and research it anyway.
I did a search for my state’s absentee ballot  and sure enough, I did [...]

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Why a mailing address is not complete

One thing that Gram is adamant about is the local post office.  She’s had a lot of issues with the post office. Well who hasn’t.
She once had a mail person once who would not deliver the mail because the address was not complete, i.e. didn’t have an apartment number on it, or the name of [...]

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Why we have retail tax?

Three words: World War II.

Recently I went to an organization store to get some supplies and I noticed when the cashier said the amount that the typical price was a bit higher. This is because the retail tax went up.
Grandma recently gave me a talk about taxes and how they started, as a way to [...]

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Deceased Do Not Contact List

I know we hate to think about it, but there will come a time when we have to deal with the inevitable. Unfortunately my time can came way too early when I lost my mom.
While browsing through the USPS site, I found a page about the options of the handling a deceased persons mail.  [...]

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Delivering packages to the elderly

Every once in a while, Grandma receives notices from the post office saying that she needs to pick up a delivery. The thing that she was in the house all day. How long does it take to ring the bell and deliver a package?  They should at least see if the person is home first [...]

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Reflections on the past several days

I’m not going to go on and on about how significant the past several days have been for not only those who live in the US, but also the world. What I am  going to highlight is on those who have seen a lot in their years.
Our new president-elect highlighted a story about a centenarian [...]

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Social Security Payments on Debit cards?

Yes, you saw right. I saw this blurp in the April 2008 AARP  Bulletin. Grandma was aghast with the thought of her hard earned money going on a “credit card” instead of seeing a check.
We just have to wait and see how this all develops, but one thing is for sure, Gram’s not rushing to [...]

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The Stimulus Payment…and being elderly

Yes, we know that its been a while since we written. Since I have a backlog of projects and all, it hasn’t always been easy to get back here, but we do have a couple of topics to cover. The first of which is the Stimulus Payment.
Grandma got a letter from the IRS containing [...]

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Chivalry is not dead at the DMV

Yes, we know it has been a while since we posted. With the holidays and a turbulent January, we are finally starting to gain our footing again. Anyway, on with the post.
We went to the DMV to renew Gram’s non-drivers ID. All I had say was “senior non-driver ID renewal” as I was helping her [...]

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