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Aetna Government Health Plans of Hartford, Conn., appears to have gained an unfair advantage in competing for TRICARE’s North Region support contract, valued at $16.7 billion, by hiring a former chief of staff at TRICARE headquarters to help the company draft its winning proposal.
An unprecedented financial planning opportunity arrives in 2010 and you might want to start planning for it now. Starting in January, anyone, regardless of level of income, can convert assets in pretax retirement accounts to a Roth IRA.
I’ve started trading futures and currencies. It’s a small account, but I’m worried about the effect on my taxes because there is so much trading. Is there anything I can do about that?
The Social Security Administration recently announced that retirees would get no cost-of-living adjustments this year – and maybe not even next year – because the inflation measure it uses to determine them has declined for the first time in more than three decades.
A typical officer retiring today who declines to enroll in the Survivor Benefit Plan lets the government off the hook for a subsidy worth $50,100 in “net present value,” say Department of Defense actuaries.
It seems simple enough: If investors are souring on the dollar and gravitating to other currencies, why not follow along?
Whenever one of the few bonafide stars of the fund world announces a new fund, savvy investors take notice.
Middle-class American youths are entering the military in significant numbers today, drawn by more competitive pay, a battered civilian job market and the buzz surrounding an improved GI Bill education benefit.
I heard from a family the other day that wondered about taking a loan out of the 401(k) – or maybe a hardship withdrawal.
I have a pension that is available to me and I wonder about beginning the pension now or waiting. If I take the pension now I will get about $1,183 per month. By waiting, it increases approximately 7.5 percent each year to a maximum of $2,071 per month at age 65. I am not in need of the pension at this time.
You smell smoke, you expect fire.
The debate over health care reform has given one topic short shrift: How would reform affect consumers?
Defense health officials didn’t do the Obama administration any favors Wednesday when they announced a “small” increase in the daily fee that military retirees under 65, their families and covered survivors must pay for inpatient care in civilian hospitals under TRICARE Standard starting Oct. 1.
The enrollment period for Washington’s Guaranteed Education Tuition college savings program re-opened on Sept. 15. You might have noticed over the summer the price of future GET tuition credits increased 33 percent. Units that cost $76 during the enrollment period that ended last March, now cost $101. That’s an alarming increase that the state deemed necessary to keep the program solvent. Part of the increase is a response to the state legislature’s vote to allow 14 percent tuition increases each of the next two years at state four-year public universities.
Agreement is growing that the economy has taken its medicine and is feeling better.
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