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Did you know your 401(k) fees may be 46
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Can you save on home insurance claims?
Yes. Basic maintenance can save the expense and time of home
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Women lack nest egg for retirement and live longer—Double
disaster GOP could fix
There's a gender
gap in the workforce, and it needs to be addressed. Women
earn 77 cents for every dollar men earn -- 64 cents for African American
women and 56 cents for Latinas -- which adds up to a loss of about $431,000 over the course of their professional lives. No
one, on either side of the aisle, wants women to be discriminated
against in the workplace. And yet, the Paycheck
Fairness Act failed in the Senate on Tuesday. The procedural vote was along
party lines, with 46 Republicans voting against it, 50 Democrats voting for it,
two independent senators joining the Democrats, and Republican Senator Mark
Kirk of Illinois not voting at
all. Members create tax-FREE fund for family survivor:
ObamaCare benefits unknown to 80% of Americans
78 percent of consumers who would be eligible for new health
care coverage under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act have never
heard of the state-based health care exchanges where they will have to shop for
coverage beginning in 2014. In addition, 60 percent of respondents said they
believe they will need help in understanding health care insurance terms and
descriptions and navigating the complex health care system. It is no wonder
that the public is unfavorable.
Can GOP buy the President position next?
Unions outspent by Koch’s governor Walker in WI—a 21 to 3 ratio election dollars
"This is one election," Chris Fleming, the media
director for the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees,
told Yahoo News of the recall, adding that the left was heavily outspent in
this race. "We cannot compete with the Koch brothers and all of Walker 's
millionaire and billionaire megalomaniac friends who want to take control of
the government." Walker
personally raised about $21 million, significantly more than the $3 million
raised by Democratic challenger Tom Barrett, the mayor of Milwaukee .
And Walker additionally benefited
from major spending by outside tea party groups and super PACs.
SCAMS “Only
the little people pay taxes.” Leona Helmsley
AFLAC’s duck gets plucked for messing with customer cash
State split up $1.6 million settlement with Nebraska-based
American Family Life Assurance Co., known as AFLAC, after a multistate
investigation found numerous problems with the insurance company's practices.
Regulators found almost every insurer scam that has been practiced over the
years, including agent promises not from insurers, duplicate coverage,
churning, pushing bad products, changing dates, rebating and illegal
incentives. AFLAC gets to continue these until December because they didn’t
admit they were wrong. The $1.6 million will be added to the premiums. No one
goes to jail.
-- Lack of proper supervision of sales, ads made and
distributed by insurance agents/brokers, and bonuses and other incentives
-- Sales of duplicate accident and health coverage
-- Sales of policies that replaced or converted existing
ones
-- Cross-border sales
-- Suitability/overselling
-- Policies that had waiting periods
-- Record retention and claim-date stamps
-- Discounts and special offers
-- Offering value-added services
AFLAC has not admitted or denied any legal violations. The
company agreed to submit compliance reports to the department every six months
for a total of three years, starting this December.
Cult leader lived on members death benefits but now charged
with murder
The self-proclaimed leader of a Kansas
commune that lived off life insurance payouts of its dead members has been
ordered to stand trial on a charge of premeditated first-degree murder. Sedgwick
County District Judge Clark Owens entered the order Thursday at the end of a
preliminary hearing for 52-year-old Daniel U. Perez. Perez is accused in the
2003 death of Patricia Hughes at a compound near Wichita .
It was initially listed as accidental. Defense lawyers contended there was not
enough evidence to put Perez on trial. Owens disagreed and scheduled a jury
trial for July 30.
Life insurance policy requires the beneficiary have an
“insurable interest.” Was Hughes Perez’s wife? Was agent in on another scam
gone bad?
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