A news and educational resource pooling excerpts from various news and information sources from the web for the Federal Retiree.
Article Excerpt: "It's not infidelity or arguments over sex and money that break up today's marriages. It's men leaving women to shoulder the lion's share of the relationship work. ...women describing their husbands as so 'useless' they felt like married single parents."
Article Excerpt: "No matter their financial stability or other factors, respondents to the longitudinal Survey of Health, Aging, and Retirement in Europe all displayed accelerated memory decline after retirement. But there are ways to slow cognitive decline as you age. ...Spending too much time isolated and disconnected from other people can really wallop a person's health, including an increase of 50% in the risk of developing dementia for older adults. ..."
Article Excerpt: "...Toney-Finch said 15 of the veterans got the heave-ho from the Crossroads Hotel in Newburgh about 60 miles north of New York City in Orange County — a new epicenter of Big Apple’s migrant crisis since Mayor Eric Adams began bussing Gotham’s overflow there against local officials’ wishes. The other five displaced veterans were split between two other local facilities — the Super 8 and Hampton Inn & Suites in Middletown, Toney-Finch said. The Middletown hotels are not believed to have migrants yet but were reportedly on the city’s shortlist to take some. She said the hotels didn’t explicitly say the vets had to move because of the migrants but that it was clear to her that was the case..."
Article Excerpt: "...Prior to his election as president in November 2020, then-candidate Biden laid out a four-point plan designed to overhaul Social Security and strengthen the program. Biden's plan called for increased taxation on the wealthy, as well as higher payouts for aged beneficiaries and lifetime low-earners. ..."
Article Excerpt: "...Federal employees and contractors likely will not notice much difference when the mandates end, because enforcement had already been suspended due to legal challenges. The military’s vaccine mandate had already been repealed, as part of the fiscal 2023 National Defense Authorization Act signed in late December. ..."
Article Excerpt: "...The OPM is set to release proposed regulations that will ban federal agencies from considering an applicant’s nonfederal salary history when setting pay for new federal employees. The proposed regulations are part of the administration’s efforts to advance pay equity and be a model employer for the rest of the United States. ..."
Article Excerpt: "...Residents of the following 12 states get a bit of a raw deal, as they could wind up giving some of their checks back to the government. Here's what you need to know. ..."
Article Excerpt: "...Yes. Women with saline implants and women with silicone gel implants have both been shown to have symptoms of breast implant illness...While the risk of BII is not necessarily greater with saline implants, some patients do report more visible rippling and a less natural look and feel with saline implants when compared to silicone implants. This is particularly true for women with a low body fat percentage and minimal native breast tissue. A more serious type of breast implant illness, known as BIA-ALCL – which is actually a form of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma – has recently been connected to certain forms of textured breast implants..."
Article Excerpt: "...Benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) is a health issue that becomes more common with age. It's also called an enlarged prostate. The prostate is a small gland that helps make semen. It's found just below the bladder. And it often gets bigger as you get older.
An enlarged prostate can cause symptoms that may bother you, such as blocking the flow of urine out of the bladder. It also can cause bladder, urinary tract or kidney problems.
Many treatments can help BPH. These include...Cystoscopy: A lighted, flexible tool is placed into the urethra. It lets a provider see inside the urethra and bladder. Before this test, you will be given a medicine that keeps you from feeling pain. ...symptoms include:
Urinary tract infection.
Not being able to pee.
Blood in the urine.
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Article Excerpt: "...Can you get a mortgage if you’re retired, even though you no longer receive a regular paycheck? The good news: Yes, you can. Though, qualifying for a mortgage with retirement income comes with specific requirements. Similar to getting a mortgage before retirement, you’ll need to have reliable income now and the foreseeable future that shows you can repay the mortgage, you must have good credit, and have little debt. ..."
Article Excerpt: "...High cholesterol, which is when your blood contains too much of a fatty substance called cholesterol, can cause called peripheral aerial disease (PAD). ..."
Article Excerpt: "...Recent military service and medical records are not online. However, most veterans and their next of kin can obtain free copies of their DD Form 214 (Report of Separation) and the following military service records any of the ways listed below.
DD 214/ Separation Documents
Official Military Personnel File (OMPF)
Replacement Medals
Medical and Health Records
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Article Excerpt: "...In accordance with OMB Memorandum M-13-13, the Department of Defense provides a machine-readable listing of all publicly releasable datasets on our agency website. This file is in the JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) file format. Further information on JSON is available at http://www.json.org. ...HTML Listing of DoD's datasets"
Article Excerpt: "...the agency cross-matches records from a Treasury Department database of deaths against the federal retirement rolls. If the death has not been reported to OPM, its retirement services (RS) branch attempts to verify the death. If the death is verified, OPM stops the annuitants’ annuity payments and moves to recoup any payments made after the death. If OPM cannot verify the reported death, it sends the annuitant an address verification/proof of life letter—and if there is no response, it can suspend annuity payments pending proof that the person is alive. ..."
Article Excerpt: "...Fidelity surveyed working Americans and found that there has been a decline in retirement readiness, possibly linked to concerns about inflation and recession. The report scored the financial preparedness of American household and found a five-point decline from the all-time high score of 83, reached in 2020. ..."