Inheritance Planning Made 123Easy

Healthcare in Retirement, part 8. Medicare's website calls the fall window Open Enrollment. The regulation calls it the annual coordinated election period. The industry calls it AEP. January has an Open Enrollment of its own, and the Marketplace has another. Here is every period, its dates, who it is for, when coverage starts, and what it costs to miss one. Read the full article: https://news...

Healthcare in Retirement, part 7. Every Advantage and drug plan follows the same government template for this letter, so I pulled the template. Here is the layout, the summary table on page two, the arithmetic for a made-up plan whose premium did not move but whose costs did, and the mid-year changes the rules allow. Deadline for the letter: September 30. Read the full article: https://news.americ...

Healthcare in Retirement, part 6. Two different letters are landing this month. One says your plan is changing. The other says your plan is going away. They carry different deadlines and different rights, and the most expensive mistake is treating the second one like the first. Plus the one door that only opens if you go to Original Medicare, and an open invitation for October 2. Read the full art...

Four real situations, thirty seconds each: a widow who found four accounts she never knew about, a man who sold his company and felt nothing, a couple whose plan is twenty-two years old, and three kids who will not agree. Plus Greg Frantz on thirty years of Medicare. Hayes's thirty-two-minute cut is up, with a subscribe button. Read the full article: https://news.americanretirementadvisors.co...

Healthcare in Retirement, part 5. Advantage plans let you switch every fall, no questions asked. Supplements do not. Nine in ten Advantage enrollees have no guaranteed right to buy one later. The 12-month trial right, the six-month window at 65, and the one thing Nevada has that Arizona does not. Read the full article: https://news.americanretirementadvisors.com/hir-medigap-door-locks-behind-you/...

Healthcare in Retirement, part 4. Healthy, no prescriptions, so why pay for a drug plan? Because the penalty for going without one is permanent, it grows every month you wait, and the window to fix it opens once a year. I am an engineer, not an advisor, so I did the arithmetic with 2026 numbers. Read the full article: https://news.americanretirementadvisors.com/hir-part-d-no-medications-penalty-ma...

Healthcare in Retirement, part 3. The VA is excellent at the VA. Outside it, you are on Original Medicare, which pays 80 percent with no ceiling. A $0-premium Advantage plan (you still pay the Part B premium) can add a yearly cap, care outside the VA, and dental, vision, and hearing, and your VA drug coverage means no Part D penalty. No carriers named, no pitch, just the rules. Read the full artic...

Healthcare in Retirement, part 2. Keep the family plan at work, or move yourself to Medicare while your spouse waits a year? I am an engineer, not an advisor, so I did the arithmetic: the family premium, Part B, a supplement, an IRMAA surcharge set by a two-year-old tax return, and the HSA rule that quietly voids contributions. Read the full article: https://news.americanretirementadvisors.com/hir...

The company hands you 18 months of COBRA on the way out and it feels generous. Medicare's 8-month clock started the month you left, COBRA usually costs more than Medicare would, and no, you do not get to keep both. An engineer shows his work. Read the full article: https://news.americanretirementadvisors.com/hir-cobra-does-not-stop-the-medicare-clock/ Part of the Healthcare in Retirement seri...

My wife just started a new nursing job and picked her health plan in one evening from a list of three. At 65 it feels like three hundred, and the person down the hall who used to vet it for you is gone. Read the full article: https://news.americanretirementadvisors.com/three-plans-at-work-three-hundred-at-65/ American Retirement Advisors helps families in Arizona and Nevada navigate healthcare, re...

Our client care team has walked more than 2,000 clients through this year's enrollment check-in. Here is what happens to your answers next, and why the early birds sleep better in October. Read the full article: https://news.americanretirementadvisors.com/2000-checked-in-client-care-thank-you/ American Retirement Advisors helps families in Arizona and Nevada navigate healthcare, retirement in...

Fiscal Fridays taped Friday with my dad and Greg Frantz, and for the first time Hayes Clement was fully in charge as director and producer. He was incredible. Here is what happened in the room, and how to make sure you are in it next time. Read the full article: https://news.americanretirementadvisors.com/hayes-first-show-fiscal-fridays-greg-frantz/ American Retirement Advisors helps families in A...

Save your seat at the October 2nd workshop: https://123easy.co/pod If you're coming to sit with us Friday, here's how to get the most out of the hour, what we'll actually cover, and what we won't do. Read the full article: https://news.americanretirementadvisors.com/what-to-bring-library-workshop-oct2/ American Retirement Advisors helps families in Arizona and Nevada navigate h...

Save your seat at the October 2nd workshop: https://123easy.co/pod There are Medicare plans we help people with that pay us nothing, and the list gets longer every year. Here's why we've never been able to make ourselves stop. Read the full article: https://news.americanretirementadvisors.com/why-we-show-up-plans-we-dont-get-paid-on/ American Retirement Advisors helps families in Arizona...

Save your seat at the October 2nd workshop: https://123easy.co/pod 600,000 members sounds enormous until you read the rest of it. Here's what the Humana Medicare Advantage reporting actually says, and what a calm person does with the letter. Read the full article: https://news.americanretirementadvisors.com/humana-headline-vs-facts/ American Retirement Advisors helps families in Arizona and N...

Save your seat at the October 2nd workshop: https://123easy.co/pod A wave of Medicare Advantage non-renewal letters is about to land, and the headlines will scare people before the facts can catch up. Here's the calm version, and why we picked October 2nd to be in the room. Read the full article: https://news.americanretirementadvisors.com/scariest-medicare-letters-library-workshop/ American...

The thing that actually splits families isn't the money. It's a ring, a chair, a photo, and the feeling of being left out. Here is how you hand it all down without anyone stopping speaking. Read the full article: https://news.americanretirementadvisors.com/inheritance-conversation-split-without-war/ American Retirement Advisors helps families in Arizona and Nevada navigate healthcare, re...

Asking your parents about their estate feels like reaching for the inheritance. It isn't. It's making sure the plan they built still does what they wanted. Here are the words that open it gently. Read the full article: https://news.americanretirementadvisors.com/inheritance-conversation-ask-your-parents/ American Retirement Advisors helps families in Arizona and Nevada navigate healthcar...

The money you give while you are alive to watch it land is worth more than the same money left behind. Here is how to do it without stepping on the parents or spoiling the kids. Read the full article: https://news.americanretirementadvisors.com/inheritance-conversation-give-grandkids-now/ American Retirement Advisors helps families in Arizona and Nevada navigate healthcare, retirement income, and...

Your kids can already see the money is there. Telling them the plan while you're alive is the only way to explain the why yourself, so nobody has to guess after you're gone. Read the full article: https://news.americanretirementadvisors.com/inheritance-conversation-tell-your-kids/ American Retirement Advisors helps families in Arizona and Nevada navigate healthcare, retirement income, an...

The hardest check to write is the one you can easily afford. Eddie and Betty talk through Ian Schaeffer's piece on helping a struggling adult child with money without taking over their life: why silent giving and silent refusal both hurt, the reframe between replacing what a kid can do and building it, and the actual words to use at the table tonight. Read the full article: https://news.ameri...

When time gets short, money is the last thing anyone actually wants to talk about, and that is exactly why the conversation matters. Eddie and Betty talk through Ian Schaeffer's piece on how to open the inheritance conversation with a parent who doesn't have long: why families go quiet instead, the reframe that makes it possible (open with the person, not the accounts), and the actual wo...

Most people who inherit an IRA think they have ten years to do whatever they want with it. Eddie and Betty walk through why that assumption is wrong for a lot of families, and why 2025 is the first year it truly costs them: the SECURE Act's ten-year rule, the annual withdrawal requirement most people never hear about, the penalty relief that just ended, and what to actually do if you've...

Ian takes us back to the library rooms where American Retirement Advisors ran its Medicare workshops for years: the Beach Boys over the speakers, David Edge calm on his phone until showtime, and a room that would sit nearly empty until it suddenly wasn't. Eddie and Betty talk through the memory, and the news at the end of it: the workshops are coming back, starting Friday, October second. Rea...

Betty gets to say it herself. On Friday, October 2, Eddie and Betty are coming to the big screen for one day only, two showings, at two Valley libraries, alongside the advisors you have been reading all summer. Here is everything, including how to save your seat at no cost to you. Read the full article: https://news.americanretirementadvisors.com/eddie-and-betty-big-screen/ American Retirement Adv...