Retirement
His Rent Rose $500 a Month and His Social Security Record Had Years of Gaps — At 54, He Started Counting
A 54-year-old IT contractor discovered years of gaps in his Social Security earnings record after…
Articles by Sloane Avery Wren
Medicare
I Met a 63-Year-Old FedEx Driver With No Health Insurance — His Plan to Survive the Two-Year Wait for Medicare
A 63-year-old FedEx driver with no employer health insurance shares his strategy to survive until…
Retirement
A 31-Year-Old Engineer With No Retirement Savings Just Discovered His SSA Earnings Record Was Wrong for Three Years
A 31-year-old petroleum engineer discovered identity theft had corrupted his SSA earnings record. His story…
Medicare
He Spent 40 Years Helping Others — At 67, His Medicare Bill Blindsided Him
Dennis Novak spent 40 years as a social worker with no employer insurance. At 65,…
Social Security
Someone Stole His Social Security Number and Rewrote His Work History — A 29-Year-Old’s Fight to Fix It
Have you ever checked your Social Security earnings record — not your credit report, not…
Retirement
She Was 65, Her Workers Comp Was Denied, and Her Social Security Earnings Record Had Errors — This Is What Happened
Roughly 40 percent of Americans who claim Social Security retirement benefits do so before reaching…
Medicare
Her Health Insurance Bill Doubled to $558 a Month — Then a Portland Woman Found a Government Credit She Had Been Leaving on the Table
Roughly 4 in 10 Americans who buy individual health insurance through the ACA marketplace say…
Social Security
He Earned Too Much to Get His Son SSI Benefits — Until a 2026 Rule Shift Changed His Math
The 2026 Social Security COLA adjustment — a 2.5 percent increase effective January 1 —…
Medicare
She Paid Into Social Security for 30 Years — Now Her Disability Check Falls $800 Short Every Month
The April 2026 enrollment window for several low-income Medicare Savings Programs closes later this month…
Medicare
I Tracked Down a Radio Caller Who Said Her Health Insurance Cost More Than Her Rent. Her Story Was Worse Than I Expected.
Roughly 2.2 million Americans apply for Social Security Disability Insurance every year, according to the…