| Above the Fold |
October 24, 2011 |
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| Today's News |
| Demise of CLASS leaves gap |
| By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar |
| The Obama administration's decision to pull the plug on a financially flawed long-term care insurance plan is likely to worsen a dilemma most middle-class families are totally unprepared for...Read more |
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| The Pulse |
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| Conversing with seniors about the chained CPI |
| By Rich White |
| As the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction searches for ways to cut $1.5 trillion from the federal budget over 10 years, the issue of how the Social Security Cost of Living Index (COLA) will be indexed could become controversial for retired clients...Read more |
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| Overheard on BenefitsPro |
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 the extensions have wiped out the system on a state and federal level. The feds are borrowing more money just to lend states money. There will be no money left for the newly unemployed when this economic depression gets deeper. We are basically bankrupt.
-- EPabon, Unemployment benefits face worst financial position
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