CMS Announces New Medicare Plan Finder

In readiness for the new Medicare open enrollment season The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has announced that is has updated its website to make its most visited  page more user-friendly. In keeping with the times you can now access the page on any...

Equifax Data Breach: Were You Affected?

In September 2017 Equifax, the consumer credit reporting agency, admitted that it had suffered a cyber-security breach of its system which had compromised the personal data of some 147 million customers in the United States alone. That translates to roughly 1 in 3...

HUD Now Exempts ABLE Accounts

In a notice issued earlier this month the US Department of Housing and Urban Development, better known as HUD,  formally recognized the Achieving a Better Life Experience (ABLE) Act and will now disregard the amounts in beneficiaries’ ABLE accounts when...

April is National Social Security Month!

T.S Eliot famously set off on his epic poem“The Waste Land” by declaring it the cruelest month but April has an additional identity as National Social Security Month, even if the notion is still to catch on at a truly national scale. There is certainly little evidence...