Pensions, in general, reduce poverty, and importantly, the anti-poverty impact of pensions is greatest for Black and Latino retirees, as well as for retirees without a college degree, says the National Institute on Retirement Security.
The stimulus checks landed automatically in beneficiaries' mailboxes or bank accounts in 2020 and 2021, but now, the SSA has been sending notices in an attempt to claw back $21.6 billion in "overpayments."
Benchmarks are fine for developing an employee benefits strategy. But they shouldn't be the ultimate arbiter. It's the human-centric approach that makes them effective.
In January, new federal rules will pose restrictions on how Medicare Advantage plans use algorithm tools that match patients with similar diagnoses and characteristics to make some coverage decisions.
Many states have passed laws that allow hospital systems to merge into monopolies, making them difficult to control and causing a decrease in care – and public records suggest that's exactly what happened at Ballad Health.