In this Edition: 2018 Social Security COLA House Pits Children Against Seniors Executive Order Eliminating ACA Subsidies Annual Medicare Enrollment Starts October 15, Ends December 7 Open Enrollment for Washington State HealthCare.gov (ACA) for Individual Health Care Policies 2018 Social Security COLA Set at 2% From the Alliance for Retired Americans – The Social Security Administration announced Friday that …
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In this Edition: House, Senate Budget Resolutions Both Include Trillion-Dollar Cuts to Medicare & Medicaid Annual Medicare Enrollment Starts October 15, Ends December 7 Open Enrollment for Washington State HealthCare.gov (ACA) for Individual Health Care Policies House, Senate Budget Resolutions Both Include Trillion-Dollar Cuts to Medicare & Medicaid From the Alliance for Retired Americans – The House passed its …
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In this Edition: ACA Repeal & Replace Efforts Stall Out, Yet Again Senate Passes Bipartisan Medicare Reform Bill Tax Reform Next on Congress’ Agenda ACA Repeal & Replace Efforts Stall Out, Yet Again The threat of the latest attempt to repeal and replace the ACA, the Graham-Cassidy bill, died early this week after the Senate realized that again, they …
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Select Committee on Pension Policy (SCPP) Discusses Plan 1 COLA Select Committee on Pension Policy (SCPP) – Members of RPEC attended the Select Committee on Pension Policy (SCPP) meeting September 19th in Olympia where they heard two options for a PLAN 1 COLA. Click here to see the two proposals. The SCPP Executive Committee voted in favor of having the …
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Retired Public Employees Council of WA Working to protect and enhance the pension and health care benefits of Washington retired state, county and local government employees