Can Medicaid Really Take Mom’s Home??

  Toni, Really enjoy your articles in the Examiner. Have a client who just received a bill for her mother’s Medicaid payments during the last few years of her life. My client had no idea that Medicaid was running a tab; otherwise she would have had her...

Local Teacher Confused about Changes to TRS Medicare Plans

Toni:             My wife is a retired teacher and we are both on her TRS-Care Plan.  I also have retirement benefits from Dow Chemical where I worked for 30+ years.  I have just found out that I’ve lost my Dow retiree health benefits because TRS enrolled us in the...

Veterans Late Enrollment in Part B is Very Costly!!

Hello Ms. Toni: I am a Vet and have always received my healthcare from the Michael DeBakey VA center.  I turned 65 last April 2011 and did not sign up for Part B in Medicare.  Now I have a serious heart condition requiring surgery and I would like to go to a heart...

Retiring at 68 from Company Benefits…

Hello Toni: I turned 65 in March 2009, I continued to work full time with excellent company benefits, and I decided to delay Part B until December 1, 2012 when I have retired.  I enrolled in a Medicare supplement plan F and a Part D prescription drug plan and now...