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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…

Lattice Semiconductor Corporation (NASDAQ:LSCC) Q3 2024 Earnings Call Transcript November 4, 2024 5:00 PM ET Company Participants Rick Muscha – Senior Director of IRFord Tamer – CEOTonya Stevens – Interim CFO Conference Call Participants Tristan Gerra – Robert W. BairdMelissa Weathers – Deutsche BankChristopher Rolland – Susquehanna International GroupQuinn Bolton – Needham and CompanySrini Pajjuri – Raymond JamesRuben Roy – StifelJoshua Buchalter – TD CowenDuksan Jang – Bank of AmericaDavid Williams – Benchmark Company Operator Greetings and welcome to the Lattice Semiconductor Third Quarter 2024 Earnings Conference Call. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode. A question-and-answer…

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…

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…

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Stay informed with free updatesSimply sign up to the Chinese economy myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox.China’s lawmakers will begin a week-long session on Monday that is expected to approve the country’s largest fiscal package since the pandemic to boost confidence in the world’s second-largest economy. Beijing has yet to indicate the scale of the measures, but finance minister Lan Fo’an last month promised it would help resolve some of the trillions of dollars of debt weighing down China’s cash-strapped local governments.Analysts believe China needs to spend up to Rmb10tn ($1.4tn) over three years to help reflate an…

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…

Start Time: 10:00 January 1, 0000 11:33 AM ET Larsen & Toubro Limited (OTC:LTOUF)Q1 2025 Earnings CallOctober 30, 2024, 10:00 AM ET Company Participants Parameswaran Ramakrishnan – Head, IR Conference Call Participants Mohit Kumar – ICICI SecuritiesSumit Kishore – Axis CapitalAditya Bhartia – InvestecAmit Mahawar – UBSPriyankar Biswas – BNP Paribas ExaneParikshit Kandpal – HDFC SecuritiesNidhi Shah – ICICI SecuritiesPulkit Patni – Goldman SachsBharanidhar Vijayakumar – Avendus SparkNikhil Nigania – BernsteinShrinidhi Karlekar – HSBC Operator Ladies and gentlemen, good day and welcome to the Larsen & Toubro Limited Q1 FY’25 Earnings Conference Call. [Operator Instructions]. I now hand the conference…

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…

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…