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They're not buying it. Most Americans say they don't believe Medicare has to be cut to balance the federal budget, and ditto for Social...

HAVERHILL, Mass. — A third Maine man accused of scamming a 92-year-old Massachusetts man out of $90,000 for odd jobs around his home has been...

WASHINGTON — Call it drugs for the departed: A quirky bureaucratic rule led Medicare’s prescription drug program to pay for costly medications even after the...

By Kristen Alberino, Social Security Public Affairs Specialist, Boston Region - Beginning on January 8, 2020, field offices will remain open until 4 p.m. on...

By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama’s health care law would let several million middle-class people get nearly free insurance meant for the poor, a...

By Charles Babington TAMPA, Fla. — Attacked from all sides by fellow Republicans, Texas Gov. Rick Perry softened his rhetoric if not his position on Social...

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By Kelli Kennedy MIAMI — Dear seniors, your Medicare benefits aren’t changing under the Affordable Care Act. That’s the message federal health officials are trying to...

As owner and producer of Connect Your Stories Productions, Judy Faust, 64, of Stow has begun pre-production on her third documentary, “From Institution to Independence: The Donna Jay Story.” Jay is legally blind, and has intellectual and developmental disabilities. She was age 4 in 1960 when their family doctor advised her parents to institutionalize her.

If the House goes along, Congress would stave off a 23 percent cut in doctors’ pay scheduled to take effect Dec. 1. The cost of the one-month postponement, $1 billion over 10 years, will be paid for by changes in Medicare reimbursement for outpatient therapy services.