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Need Help with Tax Prep? Find the Answers Here
We're closing in on tax season once more and that can pose quite a number of questions and concerns for all of us. We at MDBCN are not tax professionals but we can point you in the right direction. We've tracked down a very helpful site that will give you the contact...
The Pickle Amendment: Keeping Medicaid When COLAs Make You Ineligible for SSI
Jake Pickle was a US Representative of the 10th District of Texas between 1963 and his retirement in 1995. A Democrat, he voted in favor of the Civil Rights Acts of 1964, ’65 and ’68. In 1983 he worked on increasing the full retirement age for Social Security, a...
Dear Reader, What Would You Like to Discuss in ‘22?
The new year’s updates have all been completed and we’re settling into another year. We’ve had the good news about the Social Security COLAs and the bad news about the Medicare Part B premiums; the Federal Poverty Level is up again, and Social Security said they were...
Update on SNAP Maximum Allotments
The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), still more commonly known as food stamps, has an annual maximum allotment depending on the size of the household. The figures for 2022 came into place back in October 2021 as the US Department of Agriculture works...
2022 Federal Poverty Levels Released
The new year brings with it an expected change in the US Federal Poverty Guidelines, and as would also be expected, they are a little higher than before. The guidelines are used to determine the financial eligibility for state and federal programs, and so play a huge...