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		<title><![CDATA[Toni Says: Medicare enrollment options if you are over 65 and have preexisting health conditions]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hello Toni, I’m retiring January 1, 2027, and beginning to research what is the right Medicare option for me and my wife, Jennifer, who is receiving breast cancer treatment. Jennifer’s cancer drugs are expensive, and I am concerned about the ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
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    <pubDate>Apr/02/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Isolation adds to burdens for older people]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[SAN JOSE, Calif. — Bill Roberts, 78 and disabled, rarely leaves his
home. One of his most meaningful sources of interaction comes twice a
week, when his favorite Meals on Wheels driver delivers lunch – bonus
points if it’s his favorite ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/seniorlivingfeatures/s-4058726</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Apr/01/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Social Security and You: Two Social Security Benefits You Never Heard Of]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[I'm going to give you two words. And I will buy you lunch if you can
tell me what connection they have with Social Security.

Here are the words: Pneumoconiosis and Prouty. I bring these words up
because I got a "blast from the past" when I was ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/socialsecurityandyou/s-4057600</link>
 
    <pubDate>Apr/01/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Still skating at 87: Inside a hockey league where age doesn’t stop the game]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[SAN JOSE, Calif. -- As players in the San Jose Sharks Masters League
streak across the ice, Ed Asato trails behind the play, stick ready.

At 87, he still skates in the league’s over-60 division.

Though he isn’t as quick as he was when he ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/seniorlivingfeatures/s-4057596</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Apr/01/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Travel Trending with Kathy Witt: Sailing the 'pura vida' way: Sea Cloud Spirit in Costa Rica and Panama]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[With their hugging posture and ever-present smile, sloths embody
Costa Rica’s pura vida lifestyle like no other creature. As
the national symbol of this conservation-minded destination, sloths
represent Costa Rica’s commitment to biodiversity ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
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    <pubDate>Mar/31/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Toni Says: America, beware of Medicare scams!]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Toni: On March 5, I received a Medicare.gov newsletter by email, and I am worried that I may have fraud on my Medicare.gov account. I received my current Medicare summary by mail with a Medicare claim from a medical office that I am not aware of ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/tonisays/s-4049671</link>
 
    <pubDate>Mar/26/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[‘Simply tell the truth’: Miami historian creates Black history textbook for kids]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[MIAMI — Historian and activist Marvin Dunn’s job is to bring
Florida’s Black history to life — whether through his Teach the Truth Tours, the under the Black history tree at Florida International
University, speaking at schools about ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/seniorlivingfeatures/s-4051703</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Mar/25/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Social Security and You: Explaining Social Security 'Claim' Numbers]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Q: I am a 78-year-old recent widow. I got my own Social Security number
when I was about 20. But since my husband and I started getting Social
Security benefits about 15 years ago, the correspondence I got from the
Social Security Administration ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/socialsecurityandyou/s-4050702</link>
 
    <pubDate>Mar/25/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Toni Says: What are Medicare’s ‘lifetime reserve days’?]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Toni: Why did a hospital medical claims employee ask my husband Steven to sign a form stating that he is aware that he is now in his “lifetime reserve days”? He is waiting for a lung-heart transplant. Steven went into the hospital in December ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/tonisays/s-4044209</link>
 
    <pubDate>Mar/19/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Social Security and You: Raising the Cap on Taxable Income Has Drawbacks]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have probably written 100 columns about possible Social Security
reforms. Well here comes column number 101!

What is prompting my discussion of the issue this time is that a certain
reform proposal has been getting a lot of press lately. It is ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/socialsecurityandyou/s-4044251</link>
 
    <pubDate>Mar/18/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[With Americans regularly scrolling, buying and selling online, there are more ways than ever for fraudsters to steal your hard-earned money]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[The latest Bankrate Financial Fraud Survey reveals that about 1 in 3
U.S. adults (34 percent) have experienced financial fraud or a scam in
the past 12 months, since January 2024. Among them, nearly 2 in 5 (37
percent) lost money.

“Financial ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/seniorlivingfeatures/s-4044249</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Mar/18/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[When a mare comes calling — in the dining room of a nursing home]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[FRANKFURT, Germany — Wega carefully places her hooves on the dark
laminate floor. Step by step, the small-statured Haflinger mare ventures
into the foyer of the nursing home in Bückeburg in Lower Saxony,
Germany.

The clacking of the horseshoes...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/seniorlivingfeatures/s-4044248</link>
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    <pubDate>Mar/18/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Banks are becoming bulwarks against scams for vulnerable seniors]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[The first call came just before Thanksgiving last year. She didn’t
recognize the phone number, but she answered anyway.

“The person said he was an officer of the Department of Criminal
Investigations looking into drug trafficking and money ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/seniorlivingfeatures/s-4045311</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Mar/17/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Banks are becoming bulwarks against scams for vulnerable seniors]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[The first call came just before Thanksgiving last year. She didn’t
recognize the phone number, but she answered anyway.

“The person said he was an officer of the Department of Criminal
Investigations looking into drug trafficking and money ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/seniorlivingfeatures/s-4042913</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Mar/17/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Toni Says: On COBRA after retiring? Enroll in Medicare the right way to avoid a penalty]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dear Toni: I retired from my employer in July when I turned 67 and enrolled in COBRA, which began August 1, instead of enrolling in Medicare. I was told that COBRA protected me from the Medicare penalty for 18 months. My sister showed me a topic ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/tonisays/s-4036576</link>
 
    <pubDate>Mar/12/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Social Security and You: Simple and Smart Update]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Readers are always asking me if I could recommend a good book about
Social Security. I always steer them to the best book out there. It's
called "Social Security Simple and Smart -- 10 easy-to-understand fact
sheets that will answer all your ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/socialsecurityandyou/s-4036616</link>
 
    <pubDate>Mar/11/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[St. Louis grandma earns national honor for her breakfast gatherings for teens]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ST. LOUIS — Peggy Winckowski has a specific love language:
breakfast.

So last Wednesday — two days after it was announced she had been
chosen by USA Today as one of its “Women of the Year” — she
headed to Bishop DuBourg High School ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/seniorlivingfeatures/s-4036615</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Mar/11/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[This 86-year-old baker still rises to the occasion five days a week]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[PHILADELPHIA -- Deluxe Catering owner Daniel Israel wanted to cook up
something special for the 86th birthday of his company’s baker, George
Wright, but instead of giving him his flours in the form of a cake,
Israel wanted someone to tell Wright...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/seniorlivingfeatures/s-4036614</link>
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    <pubDate>Mar/11/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[St. Louis grandma earns national honor for her breakfast gatherings for teens]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ST. LOUIS — Peggy Winckowski has a specific love language:
breakfast.

So last Wednesday — two days after it was announced she had been
chosen by USA Today as one of its “Women of the Year” — she
headed to Bishop DuBourg High School ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/seniorlivingfeatures/s-4036460</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Mar/11/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Toni Says: America’s veterans should enroll in Medicare on time to avoid a costly penalty]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dear Toni, My husband, Jason, is a retired veteran and never enrolled in Medicare because he uses the VA for his medical care and does not have to pay the Medicare premium. He is having heart issues and wants to go to a local cardiologist. The ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/tonisays/s-4029324</link>
 
    <pubDate>Mar/05/2026</pubDate>
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