Customer Reviews

Social Security, Medicare & Government Pensions: Get the Most of Your Retirement and Medical Benefits

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Here are some of the benefits covered in this book:

Veterans benefits - free or low cost medical care
Social Security - retirement & disability benefits
Supplemental Security Income
Federal Civil Service Retirement Benefits

How to navigate the bureaucracy
Reduce your health care costs

Prescription drug discount cards

As a government employee, I bought this book hoping it would provide some good tips on the federal retirement system. This book may help the new or very uninformed employee, but that's it. Some of the information on government benefits was just plain wrong, which is why it only gets two stars from me. As an example, it states a FERS employee can contribute a maximum of 10% to the Thrift Savings Plan each year. Wrong! An employee has been able to contribute 15% for years and I believe there is no limit in 2006. This is not good information for a book that was updated in February 2006!

bought the book to figure out how to take care of my parents. great resource.

Not only a good teaching guide for the class I took, it was a great reference. The kind of book you keep on your shelf for future needs or to refresh yourself in the subject area.

Material sees good, but you get regular doses of political opinion on profits, "big business" and how wounderful more goverment might be. Tear out the pages of political garbarge and the book rates 4 stars. Oh yes, the editors make a modest profit on the book. Shame ... shame!