From the Money website
Future retirees’ safety net is shrinking, and you can blame inflation—not the politicians in Washington, D.C. Social Security and Medicare are critical components of the retirement safety net.
Yet, medical costs are rising at such a rapid rate that lifetime health care expenses will exceed the lifetime Social Security benefit of a 45-year-old couple. The pair will need 122% of their lifetime Social Security payments to cover their projected retirement health care costs, according to a report released Wednesday by HealthView Services, a Danvers, Mass.-based company that provides retirement health care cost data and tools to financial advisors.
From the Washington Report, a NGAUS weekly e-newsletter
Military members medically separated between Sept. 11, 2001, and Dec. 31, 2009, may have additional benefits coming to them. Those eligible to request a review had a combined disability rating of 20 percent or less and received separation pay instead of medical retirement.
More information is at www.health.mil/PDBR.
The pūpūkahi is the State of Hawaii Department of Defense monthly newsletter. Printed versions of the pūpūkahi have been the “command information” newsletter for decades, however, it was suspended in 2009 due to budget cuts.
Effective with this issue, pūpūkahi will become an quarterly e-newsletter.
From the This Day in Aviation website
8 June 1927: At 7:09 a.m., PDT, 1st Lieutenant Lester J. Maitland and 1st Lieutenant Albert F. Hegenberger, Air Service, United States Army, took off from Oakland Municipal Airport, California, aboard an Atlantic-Fokker C-2, serial number A.S. 26-202, Bird of Paradise. Their destination was Wheeler Field, Honolulu, Territory of Hawaii, 2,407 miles (3,873.7 kilometers) across the Pacific Ocean. The Air Service had been planning such a flight for many years. Specialized air navigation equipment had been developed, much of it by Lieutenant Hegenberger, and simulations and practice flights had been carried out.
Airman is the online magazine of the United States Air Force. The Defense Media Activity produces the magazine for the Secretary of the Air Force Office of Public Affairs.
Read the latest postings at http://airman.dodlive.mil
View back issues http://airman.dodlive.mil/category/archive/
The June issue of the DFAS newsletter includes
– DFAS’s mailing address has changed
– Military retirement payments subject to federal payment levy program
– How to report a retiree’s death
– Survivor Benefit Plan (SBP) premium calculations
– A new feature in the Customer Care Center
– Useful contact numbers when working the family of a deceased member
Special Thanks to MSG Lei Watson of the Human Resources Office for keeping Retiree News on the mailing list.
From the Money website
If age really is just a number, what number marks old age?
Well, the answer to that depends on how old you are now.
Millennials hold the least generous views on aging, saying that you are old beginning at just 59, according to a new study by U.S. Trust. Older groups, however, put the starting point further out.
Gen X on average bumps the beginning of old age to 65, while boomers and the silent generation both agreed that age 73 is the start.
This episode of Yesterday’s Air Force looks at the career of General Henry Harley “Hap” Arnold, the only man to ever hold both grades of General of the Army and General of the Air Force.
Related:
General Henry H. ‘Hap’ Arnold: Architect of America’s Air Force
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From the USA Today website
The 2017 edition of the Paris Air Show is wrapping up this week, and — as usual — a number of interesting storylines have emerged from the latest edition of the event.
Boeing bested Airbus in what Reuters described as “a red hot race for new business” at the show, recording 571 net new orders to 326 for Airbus. The tallies exceeded expectations in what was forecast to be a slow year for orders.
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From the Honolulu Magazine website
Matcha and Red Bean Cake
Matcha is good for you—not only for its health benefits, but also because it is oh, so delicious, especially in the form of a sweet treat.
For our annual Best of Honolulu issue in July, we searched for the best matcha dessert. Here are some of our favorite green tea sweets.
From the Just Random News website
An estimated 5.2 million Americans have Alzheimer’s disease in 2014, and around 500,000 seniors die each year because of it. University of Florida Health researchers have found a quick and inexpensive way to diagnose this disease at an early stage using the Peanut Butter test.
