Lawmakers Work Towards Omnibus.To qualify for a divorced spouse survivor's benefit, you must have been married to your ex-spouse for at least 10 years, and you did not remarry until you were past the age of 60. After age 60, your remarriage does not affect eligibility for ex-spouse survivor's benefits. Any benefit that you receive would not affect the benefit for other survivors who are receiving benefits based on the record of your ex-spouse..Better Donut Hole Coverage - Higher Taxes Ahead.Democrats want to be able to pass President Biden's economic stimulus/COVID-19 relief bill, but it is highly unlikely they could get 10 Republicans to vote for the bill..Quite likely. Age 62 is simple to remember because it's the same for everyone. But figuring out your full retirement age is hard because it differs for every one. It must be looked up online, or you must call the Social Security Administration to confirm it. Only one-out-of three people even know their full retirement age. But your full retirement age, whether it's 66, 66 plus 4 months, or 67, and the amount you can expect at that age, still doesn't get you your maximum benefit! Only half of all retirees even know that waiting until age 70 to claim retirement benefits gets you the maximum amount that you qualify for..An immunologist at the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota said recently, "It's fine for politicians to say we're going to have a vaccine next month, but the literature is littered with false starts and unanticipated safety effects in vaccines."."The FDA's action came despite a 10-0 vote in November against approval by its panel of expert advisers, who were dubious that data from two clinical trials showed the drug was effective in early Alzheimer's patients with mild cognitive impairment; three members resigned in protest from the panel last week. The surprising decision leaves doctors turning back to data from those trials, which had conflicting results: One barely met its primary endpoint, and the other did not. As if that is not confusing enough, the mental decline that is considered an early sign of Alzheimer's disease is also present in other age-related disorders, which makes it hard to discern which patients have the disease.".puts coverage of 52 million Americans with pre-existing conditions into question,.Notch Reform is far from being over though. Officially there are more co-sponsors of "The Notch Fairness Act" than ever before at the end of the first year of a session of Congress and support is ahead of last-sessions record-breaking numbers. With enough co-sponsors signed on, TSCL and the grass roots can help force the bill to the floor for a straight up and down vote. We urge you, and the families of all Notch Babies, to contact your Members of Congress. Ask them to co-sponsor H.R. 615, and enact "The Notch Fairness Act."
