Massachusetts Care Act becomes law
By Mike Festa, State Director, AARP Massachusetts
AARP Massachusetts is thrilled to announce that the Caregiver Advise, Record, Enable (CARE) Act has been signed into...
FPA March 2022 Central
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Medicare Open Enrollment
By Mike Festa, State Director, AARP Massachusetts
It’s that time of year again! Medicare Open enrollment is your opportunity to make changes in your coverage...
Fidelity issues new retirement savings guidelines
By Dave Carpenter
Fidelity Investments has issued new savings guidelines suggesting that workers save at least eight times their final salary in order to meet...
Gov. Healey travels to Northborough Senior Center to highlight tax cuts
By Laura Hayes, Contributing Writer
NORTHBOROUGH – Gov. Maura Healey and Lt. Gov. Kim Driscoll joined Northborough officials at the Northborough Senior Center Oct. 10...
Government: 401(k) fee disclosures may be electronic
Workers with 401(k) retirement accounts are due to receive improved disclosures about the fees they’re paying. The Department of Labor has mandated such disclosure...
Feds start clock ticking with new plan to fight Alzheimer’s
By Lauran Neergaard
WASHINGTON —
The clock is ticking: The first National Alzheimer’s Plan sets a deadline of 2025 to finally find effective ways to treat,...
Republican plan would hike Medicare premiums
Raising taxes on millionaires may be a non-starter for Republicans, but they seem to have no problem hiking Medicare premiums for retirees making a...
Unitarian Universalist Congregational Society of Westborough welcomes new minister
Westborough - Ministry is a third career for Reverend Beverly Waring, 57, who holds an undergraduate degree in computer science and a master’s in social work. After working as a software engineer for a dozen years followed by over 15 years working with the homeless, the addicted, the mentally ill, the abused, and the terminally ill and dying, Waring decided to take a different path. Today, she is the residing minister at the Unitarian Universalist Congregational Society of Westborough (UUCSW).
Task force urges bone-density tests for more women
By Stephanie Nano
NEW YORK — Routine screening for osteoporosis should include all younger postmenopausal women who have at least the same chance of a...