| Veterans Benefits - Health Care |
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| The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) provides health care benefits, including hospital care, outpatient care, and nursing home care, to eligible veterans. Generally speaking, services are provided on a priority basis. More... |
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| OVERVIEW OF ANNUITIES |
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| Although they do not fit within the strict definition of insurance, annuity policies are now widely viewed as a form of insurance. However, the insurance aspect of an annuity basically goes to the fact that the annuitant will receive a guaranteed income payment (usually for the rest of his or her life). Annuities were not regarded as insurance at common law, but commercially issued annuity policies are now largely regulated by state insurance statutes. Some types of annuities such as variable annuities are securities that are regulated by the Securities Exchange Commission. Fixed annuities are not securities and are not regulated as such. More... |
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| Social Security - Survivors' Benefits |
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| The Social Security Administration pays Survivors' Benefits to certain family members of a worker who died after becoming eligible for the benefit. For each three-month period of employment, a worker gains one credit. More... |
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| Housing - Federal Public Housing Programs - § 231 Housing Mortgage Insurance For The Elderly |
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| The § 231 program provides low-interest, fixed-rate mortgage loans to housing developers for either construction or rehabilitation of rental units occupied by the elderly or the handicapped. More... |
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| Medicare - Supplemental Health Insurance - Payment for Services and Proper Insurance Practices |
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| When an individual has purchased a Medigap insurance policy to supplement Medicare coverage, how medical bills are paid depends upon two factors: whether the medical provider accepts Medicare and whether the individual has arranged for his or her Medigap insurance company to send claims directly to Medicare. More... |
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