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Access to an employer-based, payroll-deduction retirement savings plan plays a key role in allowing people to save for the future. Yet nearly half of American workers, or about 56 million, do not have access to such a plan. To address this challenge, in recent years a growing number of states have…
In a recent AARP focus group, Malcolm (name changed for privacy), a 64-year-old man with health insurance through his employer and a preexisting condition, shared how over the course of a year, he received two low-balance medical bills he couldn’t afford to pay. The bills went to collection, which…
New AARP research finds that about half of American working adults, or about 56 million people, lack access to a payroll-deduction workplace retirement savings plan, making it much more difficult for them to save for retirement. Small business employees, workers with low-to-moderate earnings, and…
Here are some suggestions to help the grieving process move forward in spite of constraints brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Across the globe, many communities—both local and virtual—are innovating out of necessity to support older adults and immunocompromised people as they cope with the COVID-19 pandemic.
In the face of COVID-19, governors and state legislatures have removed restrictions on advanced practice registered nurses, giving consumers better access to primary care.
Expanding Medicaid coverage in non-expansion states will provide access to needed health care and treatment for millions of adults during the COVID-19 pandemic.
COVID-19 stands to exacerbate socioeconomic challenges we have long faced.
Bus drivers are on the front lines delivering groceries and medicine to older adults.
SNAP, formerly "food stamps," needs additional investments and flexibility to respond to the pandemic.
Recently passed legislation will allow food programs to ramp up home meal delivery.
These actions can enable relationships between family caregivers and long-term facility residents during the spread of COVID-19.
As countries across the globe struggle to contain the pandemic, economists forecast continuing severe job loss in the coming months.
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