Consumers and professionals with an interest in long term care insurance need no longer dig so hard for information. Now they can do as the pros do: have the information come to them, in bits and pieces as it develops.... (Send2Press Newswire)

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Representatives Ginny Brown-Waite (R-FL), Earl Pomeroy (D-ND), Charles Boustany (R-LA), and Allyson Schwartz (D-PA) on April 24 introduced legislation to expand access to long-term care insurance and strengthen consumer protections of these insurance products. The Long-Term Care Affordability and Security Act of 2009 would permit long-term care insurance to be included in employer-sponsored cafeteria plans and flexible spending accounts, enabling people to pay long-term care insurance premiums using pre-tax dollars..... (Citrus Daily)

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Jonas Roeser, Senior Vice President of Marketing and Operations of LTC Financial Partners, LLC (LTCFP), has been chosen to be a judge in round 1 of the 2009 International DMA ECHO Awards.... (PR Newswire)

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The high cost of long-term health care will drag down the quality of life for nearly two-thirds of today’s retirees. It can cost $77,000 a year for a nursing home room and $20,000 for in-home care, expenses that many people are ill-prepared to absorb, said the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College. A new analysis shows that when the cost of health care and long-term care is included, 64 percent of retirees likely will be unable to maintain the lifestyle they had before retirement.... (David Pitt, Associated Press)

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Q: "My sister says our family should begin elaborate 'Medicaid planning' to shelter our elderly parents' assets and make them look poor enough to qualify for government-paid nursing-home assistance, even though they're in good health today. I think this is unethical. What do you think?" See Knight Kiplinger's answer.... (Kiplinger's Personal Finance, in The Washington Post)

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