Taxation & Estate Planning

Don't Expect COLA Increases in Your Social Security Payments
According to the Social Security fund trustees, cost of living adjustments (COLAs) in Social Security payments are unlikely in 2010 and 2011.  COLAs are linked in to inflation, which has been negative in 2009, primarily due to lower energy costs...

American Seniors Can Continue to Rely on the Rock Solid Promise of Social Security
Reflecting record high prices facing American consumers, a 5.8 percent cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) for Social Security beneficiaries was announced today. The AP reports: Social Security checks grow a bit as stocks shrink, 10/16/08 The 5...

NO COLA, DEFICITS: Social Security Increase Unlikely Again This Year. Maybe this is why the senior
NO COLA, DEFICITS: Social Security Increase Unlikely Again This Year. Maybe this is why the seniors are so testy.

CRS report discusses what will happen to Medicare Part B without SS COLA premium increase
Current projections indicate that there will be no Social Security cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) in 2010, 2011, and 2012. Over the same period, total Medicare Part B program costs are expected to increase...

THISLL ENHANCE HIS POPULARITY WITH SENIOR CITIZENS: Millions face shrinking Social Security paymen
THIS’LL ENHANCE HIS POPULARITY WITH SENIOR CITIZENS: Millions face shrinking Social Security payments. “Millions of older people face shrinking Social Security checks next year, the first time in a generation that payments would not rise...

Defaulted Loans May Haunt Seniors
A little?noticed law could soon result in smaller Social Security checks for hundreds of thousands of the elderly and disabled who owe the U.S. money from defaulted loans and other debts more than a decade old...

Employee Lawsuits
Dealing with violence in the workplace

Rightwing Extremism
Current Economic and Political Climate Fueling Resurgence in Radicalization and Recruitment

Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice Career Choices
Descriptions of law enforcement occupations

Department of Homeland Security, FBI, and Social Security Administration
allegedly denied social security insurance to disabled and elderly immigrants.

Social Security Class Action Launched
to Reinstate Wrongfully Terminated Payments

Social Security Loses Class Action, Will Pay $500 Million in Benefits
Social Security Loses Class Action, Will Pay $500 Million in Benefits

Coca-Cola Co.
has agreed to pay $137.5 million to settle a securities lawsuit claiming the company artificially inflated sales to boost its stock price.

Realtors, Property ID Company
Propose $39 Million in Settlement for California Class Action

Payments Begin in Landmark $16 Million Medicaid Class Action
Payments Begin in Landmark $16 Million Medicaid Class Action