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I am interested if anyone has made an appeal to SS regarding medicare coverage and how it played out? My situation: applied for medicare in Nov.(1 month after my eligibility date of Oct.) expecting it to be effective on Jan. 1, 2020. I met with a SHIBA volunteer a few months ago and his...

Just saw a FB post from my cousin in Anchorage about the earthquake they experienced this morning. News says it's a 6.7 magnitude quake. https://abcnews.go.com/US/magnitude-67-quake-rocks-anchorage-alaska-officials/story?id=59523391

The deal site Fat Wallet closed today. I'm sorry to see it go as that is where I always checked for hot deals including the best price for tax prep software each year. They are now referring visitors to ebates. Some of the active FW posters have moved to other places to try and continue on...

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/07/us/harvey-irma-couple.html?mwrsm=Facebook Here is a nice human interest story. Harvey and Irma Schluter celebrated their 75th anniversary earlier this year. He is 104 and she is 92. They marvel at having hurricanes bearing their names. They've lived quite...

A recent announcement that the premiums for the FLTCIP are going up and in some cases by triple digits. "The Enrollee Decision Period runs July 18 through Sept. 30. The new premiums take effect Nov. 1. Enrollees can make changes throughout the decision period, however, the “last election...

I have seen this several times on the ER forum now. It is a message asking for a login ID and PW. Has anyone else seen this? I don't think it is unique to ER.org as a Google search brings up this same question on several other message boards. The message box has this in it: Authentication...

Premiums Links on the page to both HMO and fee for service plans. The overall premium increase for 2015 is 3.2% according to OPM. Federal Employees Health Benefits (FEHB) Premiums to Increase in 2015 My current plan is actually going down in 2015. Will have to see if there are significant...

This article tells of a man who bid for medical services for his hip replacement surgery. I wonder if we might see more of this type of thing in the future. He says he's happy with the results. Emergency and urgent issues could not be dealt with this way. I did have a family member who...

Amazon just raised the minimum purchase amount to receive free shipping to $35. Amazon raises free shipping minimum to $35 - Oct. 22, 2013 A number of people on here have said they were happy with the Amazon Prime service, but I keep noticing more lower priced items are not included in Prime...

I thought this video was very nice of David Gilmour (of Pink Floyd) performing a musical interpretation of Shakespeare's Sonnet 18. Pink Floyd’s David Gilmour Sings Shakespeare’s Sonnet 18 | Open Culture

Article at Myfederalretirement about the 2013 premiums for federal and retired federal employees. 2013 FEHB Premium Rate Increase Announced by OPM "The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) announced today that the average premium for the 8 million people enrolled in the Federal Employees...

Wow, I heard on the radio that Whitney Houston died today at 48 years of age. Looked on Google and couldn't find anything to confirm it until just a couple minutes ago. RIP Whitney :( Whitney Houston, superstar of records, films, dies | abc30.com "Whitney Houston, who reigned as pop...

Treasury to End Over-the-Counter Sales of Paper U.S. Savings Bonds; Action will save $70 million over first five years The article doesn't state the annual limits on purchases, but I'm betting an individual will be limited to $5k/year via the online purchase. Kind of a bummer as right now you...

A lunch time talk at the City Club today by Eric Dishman from Intel. He discusses a number of interesting ideas for caring for an aging population and shares his research and observations. He believes that the majority of falls in the elderly population are caused by medication mix problems...

For all the cat lovers on this forum. I just loved this story about Oscar the cat and his new back feet along with the video showing him walking around for the first time on them. They also put black tape around the feet so they would match the black cat. BBC News - Bionic feet for amputee cat

I will be eligible to retire at the end of 2009 and currently plan to stay until the first part of 2010. The retirement system I'm under is CSRS (I'm a fed) so the current stock market predicament is not a major consideration. It would be nice though for the TSP to return to some level of former...