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The author and his wife have enlisted the help of a free consultant to guide them until Medicare’s December 7th deadline. My wife and I have been covered by traditional Medicare since we each turned 65. In addition, we have had a secondary insurance plan that was heavily subsidized by my wife’s former employer. Similar to a supplemental plan, it mostly covered what Medicare did not fully pay for. And the amount we paid for the premium was significantly less than what we would have paid for a supplemental plan because of the subsidy from her former company. Times have…
Key Tronic Corporation (NASDAQ:KTCC) Q1 2025 Earnings Conference Call November 5, 2024 5:00 PM ET Company Participants Tony Voorhees – CFOBrett Larsen – President & CEO Conference Call Participants Bill Dezellem – Titan CapitalGeorge Melas – MKH Management Operator Good day, and welcome to the Key Tronic FY ’25 Q1 Investor Call. Today’s conference is being recorded. At this time, I’d like to turn the conference over to Tony Voorhees, Chief Financial Officer. Please go ahead. Tony Voorhees Good afternoon, everyone. I am Tony Voorhees, Chief Financial Officer of Key Tronic. I would like to thank everyone for joining us…
A longtime industrial plant manager was eager to retire. He even had numbers written on his truck’s visor that no one, not even his wife, knew what they meant. It was his retirement date. He saved, planned, and dutifully attended all his company’s retirement readiness seminars. He was in the zone; he could finally retire with financial security. A Friday that was 30 years in the making finally came. His work buddies threw a party. There was cake, cards, and even a celebratory bottle of whiskey. After a pour or two and promises made by all to get together, he…
Unlock the US Election Countdown newsletter for freeThe stories that matter on money and politics in the race for the White HouseKamala Harris and Donald Trump raced across the crucial battleground state of Pennsylvania on Monday, in a last-ditch quest to secure the final votes in one of the tightest US presidential contests in modern history.The state has 19 electoral votes and has been long viewed as crucial for both candidates’ path to the White House, with Trump winning there in his successful 2016 campaign but losing by 80,000 votes out of nearly 7mn cast four years ago.The focus on…
Hologic, Inc. (NASDAQ:HOLX) Q4 2024 Earnings Conference Call November 4, 2024 4:30 PM ET Company Participants Ryan Simon – Vice President, Investor RelationsStephen MacMillan – Chairman, President & Chief Executive OfficerEssex Mitchell – Chief Operating OfficerKarleen Oberton – Chief Financial Officer Conference Call Participants Patrick Donnelly – CitiJack Meehan – Nephron ResearchAnthony Petrone – Mizuho GroupVijay Kumar – Evercore ISI Casey Woodring – JPMorganMike Matson – Needham & CompanyNavann Ty – BNP ParibasRicardo Moreno – RBC Capital MarketsMaggie Wilmouth – William BlairAndrew Cooper – Raymond James Operator Good afternoon, and welcome to the Hologic’s Fourth Quarter Fiscal 2024 Earnings Conference…
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is notifying almost 950,000 Medicare beneficiaries that their personally identifiable information was compromised in late May 2023. In a press release, CMS reported details of the situation. Here’s a Readers Digest summary. In May 2023, Wisconsin Physicians Service identified a vulnerability in its system for transferring files. WPS applied a patch and didn’t think any personal information had been exposed. However, in July of this year, WPS determined that some of the files contained personal information and notified CMS. “Some” turned out to be 946,801 current Medicare beneficiaries. Information exposed included name, Social…
Donald Trump ramped up the angry rhetoric that has defined his campaign on Sunday, lashing out at political foes and making unfounded claims of electoral fraud as polls showed the US presidential race going down to the wire in the final 48 hours. Trump’s tone at rallies across battleground states was in contrast to Kamala Harris’s upbeat campaign message in Michigan, as both candidates made their final pitches to undecided voters and sought to rally supporters. Their presidential campaigns are battling for any edge in the last stretch of a bitter White House contest in which the candidates are running…
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Blended Families May Be At Greater Risk For Family Disputes Sometimes money and the need to care for aging parents can bring out the worst in people. This can happen in blended families with aging parents. When the adult children are faced with issues over their aging parent in common, some siblings feel entitled to different treatment because they are not step-children. Sometimes all the step-siblings get along, but things can change when the elders’ needs increase, creating demands for new responsibilities. We see many instances of these conflicts at AgingParents.com, where we advise families with age-related issues. Whose responsibility…
Unlock the US Election Countdown newsletter for freeThe stories that matter on money and politics in the race for the White HouseKamala Harris leads among likely voters in Iowa, a state Donald Trump won by more than eight points four years ago, according to a closely watched poll that suggests women voters in the Midwest could be driving a late surge in support for the Democratic vice-president.A Des Moines Register/Mediacom Iowa poll out late Saturday showed Harris leading Trump in the Midwestern state 47 per cent to 44 per cent just days before the election. Iowa, which holds the caucuses…
