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Medicare Open Enrollment – New Benefit Options in 2024

Medicare open enrollment for 2024 has arrived. Now is the time to start thinking about any changes you may want to make to your Medicare coverage. Thanks to the Inflation Reduction Act, some significant changes have come about with Medicare, and more will take effect in the near future. Medicare Open Enrollment Medicare open enrollment

Cybersecurity Awareness Month: Maintain Your Online Safety

What would we do without our smartphones, tablets, and computers? These internet-connected devices allow us to connect instantly with friends and family, order food, hail rides, pay our credit card bills, and so much more. Our devices offer so many benefits and have become such an integral part of our lives that we often forget

Better Together…Integrating Financial Products with Medicaid Planning

For all but the very wealthy, prudent retirement and estate planning includes legal measures to protect against the cost of financially ruinous long-term care. Nursing homes in Pennsylvania cost $150,000 - $180,00 a year. Medicare and private health insurance don’t pay for this. Medicaid does, without any dollar caps or time limits. But poverty is

IRS Finalizes 10-Year RMD Rules for Inherited IRAs

After much anticipation, the Treasury Department and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has issued final regulations relating to the 10-year required minimum distribution (RMD) rule for people who inherit individual retirement account (IRA) assets. The newly published guidelines generally reflect what the IRS proposed in 2022, but they bring clarity to several key questions about the rule,

Picking The Right Trustee – Important Considerations

A trustee is the person or institution appointed to manage a trust on behalf of beneficiaries of the trust. Being a trustee is a significant responsibility. Those serving in this role must always act in the best interests of beneficiaries when carrying out their trust management duties, which include locating and protecting trust assets, investing

Promissory Notes and Medicaid Planning

What is Medicaid? Nursing homes in Pennsylvania typically cost $150,000 - $180,000 a year. Medicare and health insurance don’t pay. Medicaid does, without any dollar caps or time limits. But you must first go broke in order to qualify and, if you’re married, your spouse could forfeit a substantial part of his or her estate

Blended Families and Wills in Estate Planning

Today, 16 percent of children in the United States live in “blended” families, according to U.S. Census data. Blended families are households that have a stepparent, stepsibling, or half-sibling. In Pennsylvania, stepchildren do not receive the same treatment as full biological children or adopted children in the case of inheritance, except as regards Pennsylvania Inheritance Tax.  Stepchildren