| With answers to over 500 Social Security and Medicare benefits questions, the brand-new, enhanced, and fully updated 2016 Social Security & Medicare Facts helps you confidently settle a myriad of insurance and financial decisions for your clients. |
| 2016 Social Security & Medicare Facts delivers completely up-to-date answers to over 500 Social Security & Medicare benefits questions covering: |
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Retirement & disability benefits |
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Filing for benefits |
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Loss of Social Security benefits due to "excess" retirement earnings |
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Social Security taxes |
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Benefits for federal government employees |
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Medicare Part A, Hospital Insurance |
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Medicare Part B, Medical Insurance |
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Medicare Part C, Medicare Advantage |
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Medicare Part D, Prescription Drug Insurance |
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How to submit Medicare claims as well as filing appeals |
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Taxation of Social Security benefits |
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And much more! |
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| Key Updates for 2016 Include: |
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Twelve new case studies, presenting dozens of situations detailing over one hundred real-life strategies to ensure that clients can analyze, review and choose the approach that best maximizes their Social Security benefits |
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Significant new content regarding: retirement and benefits eligibility; benefits computation and maximization; annual earnings test, delayed retirement credits; spousal benefits; survivor's benefits, children's benefits, and much more |
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Up-to-date discussion of the "File and Suspend" and "Restricted Application" techniques including the effect of the Section 831 of the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015 on these strategies |
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Discussion of rule promulgated by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) which will reimburse health-care providers if they choose to have conversations with Medicare patients about advance care planning–also known as "end-of-life discussions" |
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Updated 2016 Earnings Base and Cost of Living Adjustments numbers |
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Effect of Supreme Court decision on same-sex marriage on Social Security and Medicare benefits |
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New Medicare standards for in-home assessments |
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Changes to Medicare Advantage |
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Planning around Medicare "stealth taxes" |
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Expanded discussion of Special Needs Trusts |
