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If Washington's politicians can't reach a deal to avert the fiscal cliff, the temporary payroll tax cut passed two years ago as an anti-recessionary measure could evaporate - and with it, starting in January, a percentage of your take-home pay.
Sequestration - that's the five-dollar word for the across-the-board budget cuts looming in the near future - sounds pretty arcane and abstract. But if the automatic cuts go into effect at the beginning of the year, many older Americans could feel them quite tangibly - when they go to the Social…
While Medicare is largely protected from the " fiscal cliff" cuts that could come at the beginning of next year, take note: largely doesn't mean completely.
You've probably been hearing a lot about the "fiscal cliff" - the mammoth confluence of tax increases and spending cuts that will take effect after Jan. 1 unless President Obama and Republicans agree on a new deficit-reduction deal. It's complicated stuff, and you might be wondering what it's all…
The nation may be divided between red Republicans and blue Democrats, but when it comes to Social Security and Medicare for older Americans, it's downright purple.
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