Effective April 29, 2016, the law has changed regarding Social Security Benefits. Suspend and Restart will be Gone.Married couples can no longer use the “file and suspend” option. Under Suspend and Restart, you could increase benefits once you started them. If you...
The VA has finally released its new regulations, which can be very important to anyone who files for VA benefits AFTER October 18, 2018, or who wants to file before then! The Good News: Allowable medical expenses have increased to include the monthly cost of...
On July 31, 2015, President Obama signed into law P.L. 114-41, the “Surface Transportation and Veterans Health Care Choice Improvement Act of 2015.” Although this new law was primarily designed as a 3-month stopgap extension of the Highway Trust Fund and related...
“What is a Living Trust and Who Does it Involve?” A trust is very flexible and many provisions can be drawn to achieve your specific goals. A trust has three parties: one who creates it (a “Grantor”); one who administers is (the “Trustee”); and one who gets the...
In October, 1913 a minor provision was attached to a revenue bill to establish the first income tax following the ratification in February, 1913 of the Sixteenth Amendment of the Constitution. There were prior forms of income tax, but they were short lived until the...
Elder Law and COVID-19
