WASHINGTON. DC - U.S. Sens. Bill Nelson D-FL, Ben Cardin (D-MD), Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) sent a letter today to the administration’s new special...
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Bryan Gulley, for the Senate Aging Committee, 202-224-0101 Jen Burita, for Sen. Collins’ office, 202-224-9229Andy Phelan, for Rep. Johnson’s...
WASHINGTON, DC - Policy experts told Senate lawmakers on Wednesday that millions of seniors have been spared from abject poverty thanks to federal programs such as Social Security,...
WASHINGTON, DC -- The Affordable Care Act (ACA) may boost the number of self-employed in the U.S. by more than one million people, a key witness told senate lawmakers today at a...
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging will hold a joint hearing with the U.S. Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship on Wednesday to...
WASHINGTON, D.C.—As Americans live longer, they are growing increasingly concerned that they may not have sufficient savings to maintain their standard of living in...
WASHINGTON, D.C.-- The U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging will hold a hearing on Wednesday to examine the health and social service needs of aging Holocaust...
WASHINGTON, DC - A new Government Accountability Office (GAO) report released today found that during the first seven months of 2013, 25 percent of Part D contracts had one or more...
WASHINGTON, DC – Senators Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), and Bill Nelson (D-Fla.) today asked the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to investigate financing...
CFTC Opens Probe Into Fees Charged by Managed Futures Funds
By David Evans
Bloomberg
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission is investigating the high fees charged to investors in...
WASHINGTON, DC - The U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging held a hearing on December 18 to examine viable ways to help families pay for long-term care.
Currently, about 12...
WASHINGTON, DC – The U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging held a hearing on Wednesday, December 11 to explore various ways to make medication information leaflets that...
WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging Chairman Bill Nelson (D-FL) and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) issued the following statement today after the...
WASHINGTON, DC – If you or someone you know suspect you’ve been victim of a scam or fraud aimed at seniors, the U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging has set up...
Fraudsters are capitalizing on the rollout of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). The shifts in the healthcare landscape, including the overlap of Medicare’s annual open...
WASHINGTON, DC – An effort to help low-income persons with disabilities cover the cost of daily living expenses gained momentum in the U.S. Senate late Thursday when four key...
WASHINGTON, DC - The Senate Special Committee on Aging held a hearing on Wednesday to examine the transportation challenges faced by our nation’s seniors, particularly those...
WASHINGTON, DC – When 63-year old Venice, Florida resident Joanne Jacobsen starting planning for retirement, she believed her promised pension and health benefits would...
WASHINGTON, DC – With government estimates showing that half of the 1.2 million Americans living with HIV/AIDS will be over the age of 50 by 2015, the U.S. Senate...
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Some individuals approved by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs to help veterans applying for benefits may be doing them more harm than good, congressional...