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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Snowstorms or not, its important to have a checklist of items prepared.
Here are a few items you may or may not already thought about.
If your elder has a home, do they need to go out in a storm? If they are anything like mine, they don’t want to go out.
Make sure they have all the [...]
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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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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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In the October 2007 issue of Real Simple, there is article called Caring for Aging Parents. They also included a checklist of questions to ask which include living situation, health and finances as well a links to other resources.
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