Taking care of an elderly relative is hard work and time-consuming, but it can be profitable work. As a caregiver you will spend countless hours assisting loved ones with daily tasks such as cooking and cleaning, errands, driving them to appointments and keeping them safe.
Under the Affordable Care Act, Maryland Medicare beneficiaries receive a free annual wellness visit. This is not to be confused with an annual physical. The difference between the two can be extremely costly.
When someone passes away, the probate court supervises the administration of the estate by overseeing how the executor notifies creditors, pays debts and disburses the assets to the beneficiaries.
We advise our clients to periodically review all accounts with beneficiary designations such as life insurance, retirement plans, annuities and the like. Part of comprehensive estate planning includes looking at these types of presumably non-probate assets to ensure the beneficiary designations match up with the client’s overall goals.
Concerns over whether Social Security will survive as baby boomers age into retirement has been a growing issue on many Americans’ minds. The most recent government assessment notes that Social Security will not be able to meet the demands of its beneficiaries starting in 2035 without Congressional intervention.
A constitutional mandate requires the federal government to conduct a census every 10 years and 2020 is the next one to take place. The 2020 Census is taking a new approach. For the first time, it will be conducted almost entirely online.
In 2013, Joe Kiani founded the Patient Safety Movement after years of studying alarming statistics that revealed how many preventable deaths were occurring in hospitals. Seven years later the growing organization has almost 5000 hospitals across the nation committed to the mission of ZERO preventable deaths and as such those hospitals report over 90,000 lives saved each year.
