For this reason, Medicare imposes fairly significant late-enrollment penalties for those who postpone signing up.  To encourage everyone to sign up when they first become eligible, the program increases premiums based on how long a beneficiary waits to enroll.  

After initially delaying a rule intended to prevent financial advisers from steering their clients to bad retirement investments, the Department of Labor announced that the rule will go into effect on June 9, but its future is still unclear.

Immediate annuities can be a useful tool to protect the spouse of a nursing home resident who applies for Medicaid.

New Obama-era rules designed to give nursing home residents more control of their care are gradually going into effect. 

I am a senior contemplating marriage. We will have a prenuptial agreement shielding “Separate Property Assets” from access by the other spouse. My question is, in New York State, if one of the spouses is in a nursing home and must use Medicaid to pay expe

As baby boomers continue to work past retirement age, age discrimination lawsuits are becoming more common. While many older employees say they have experienced discrimination, proving it is difficult.

The managers of a skilled nursing facility are preventing a mentally competent wheelchair user who lives in the facility from coming and going as she pleases. She would like to roll around the neighborhood and take public transportation to shop, go to mov