An award letter is documentation that verifies your income. It is also known as a “benefit verification letter,” a “budget letter,” a “benefits letter,” a “proof of income letter,” or a “proof […]
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Direct Contracting and the new assault on Medicare
We at CTL-Retirees have been seeing many articles about Medicare and Direct Contracting Entities. It concerns us for both current and future retirees. The National Retirees Legislative Network tells us “Direct Contracting […]
“Hello? Yes, this is Santa”
The following was originally published in the 2018, Issue-1, of the Retiree Guardian, newsletter of the CenturyLink Retirees, and is published here with the permission of the author, Don Warsavage Don Warsavage’s […]
Changes to pension benefit payments for subset of pension recipients
Lumen Technologies recently completed a transaction to transfer the pension payments from the Lumen Combined Pension Plan (the “Plan”) to Athene Annuity and Life Company for a subset of current pension recipients. […]
Read the fine print when deciding between Medicare and Medicare Advantage plans.
Read the fine print when deciding between Medicare and Medicare Advantage plans. BY ALLISON HORTON – UPDATED OCTOBER 04, 2021 4:30 PM An excellent article on Medicare and Medicare Advantage. Full Article […]
I Remember When…
(From Issue 2, 2021 of the Retiree Guardian) “I Remember When…A Complete Day Wasted”By Chet Lund Williston ND It was summertime and the year was 1958. I was on an unlocated Northwestern […]



