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Inheritance Planning Made 123Easy
by American Retirement Advisors
Welcome to Inheritance Planning Made 123Easy, where father-son duo David and Ian Schaeffer bring a family-centered approach to inheritance planning, retirement security, and building legacies that last. As part of American Retirement Advisors, David and Ian have helped countless families protect what matters most and ensure that what they’ve built is preserved for generations to come.In each episode, they’ll walk you through the essential steps of inheritance planning, from organizing vital documents to protecting assets, minimizing taxes, and communicating family values and goals. With a focus on the “3 P’s” of inheritance planning—Prepare, Protect, and Preserve—they’ll show you how to align today’s financial choices with tomorrow’s family needs, keeping relationships and family dynamics at the heart of the process.David and Ian don’t just talk about inheritance planning for clients—they bring their own family into the conversation. Join
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No medications? Why skipping Part D can cost you for life
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-math/American Retirement Advisors helps families in Arizona and Nevada navigate healthcare, retirement income, and inheritance planning. Want to reach out? Text us at (602) 281-3898, email [email protected], or visit https://americanretirementadvisors.com.
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You have the VA. Why a $0-premium Advantage plan is worth a look
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 article: https://news.americanretirementadvisors.com/hir-veterans-va-and-a-zero-premium-advantage-plan/American Retirement Advisors helps families in Arizona and Nevada navigate healthcare, retirement income, and inheritance planning. Want to reach out? Text us at (602) 281-3898, email [email protected], or visit https://americanretirementadvisors.com.
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Still working at 65, spouse is 63: the math on splitting up
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-working-at-65-spouse-not-yet-math/American Retirement Advisors helps families in Arizona and Nevada navigate healthcare, retirement income, and inheritance planning. Want to reach out? Text us at (602) 281-3898, email [email protected], or visit https://americanretirementadvisors.com.
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COBRA does not stop the Medicare clock. Here is the math.
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 series from The American Retirement Advisor.American Retirement Advisors helps families in Arizona and Nevada navigate healthcare, retirement income, and inheritance planning. Want to reach out? Text us at (602) 281-3898, email [email protected], or visit https://americanretirementadvisors.com.
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Three plans at work. What feels like three hundred at 65. Happy Labor Day.
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, retirement income, and inheritance planning. Want to reach out? Text us at (602) 281-3898, email [email protected], or visit https://americanretirementadvisors.com.
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More than 2,000 of you have already checked in for enrollment season. Thank you.
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 income, and inheritance planning. Want to reach out? Text us at (602) 281-3898, email [email protected], or visit https://americanretirementadvisors.com.
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Friday, Hayes ran the show. Thank you, and get ready for the next one.
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 Arizona and Nevada navigate healthcare, retirement income, and inheritance planning. Want to reach out? Text us at (602) 281-3898, email [email protected], or visit https://americanretirementadvisors.com.
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What to bring to the library on October 2nd, and what you'll walk out knowing.
Save your seat at the October 2nd workshop: https://123easy.co/podIf 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 healthcare, retirement income, and inheritance planning. Want to reach out? Text us at (602) 281-3898, email [email protected], or visit https://americanretirementadvisors.com.
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Why we show up for plans we don't get paid on.
Save your seat at the October 2nd workshop: https://123easy.co/podThere 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 and Nevada navigate healthcare, retirement income, and inheritance planning. Want to reach out? Text us at (602) 281-3898, email [email protected], or visit https://americanretirementadvisors.com.
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"Humana is cutting plans" is a headline. Here is what it actually means for you.
Save your seat at the October 2nd workshop: https://123easy.co/pod600,000 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 Nevada navigate healthcare, retirement income, and inheritance planning. Want to reach out? Text us at (602) 281-3898, email [email protected], or visit https://americanretirementadvisors.com.
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The scariest Medicare letters of the year land October 2nd
Save your seat at the October 2nd workshop: https://123easy.co/podA 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 Retirement Advisors helps families in Arizona and Nevada navigate healthcare, retirement income, and inheritance planning. Want to reach out? Text us at (602) 281-3898, email [email protected], or visit https://americanretirementadvisors.com.
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How to Split the House and the Heirlooms Without a Family War
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, retirement income, and inheritance planning. Want to reach out? Text us at (602) 281-3898, email [email protected], or visit https://americanretirementadvisors.com.
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How to Ask Your Parents If They've Actually Planned Anything
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 healthcare, retirement income, and inheritance planning. Want to reach out? Text us at (602) 281-3898, email [email protected], or visit https://americanretirementadvisors.com.
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How to Give the Grandkids Money Now, and Watch It Matter
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 inheritance planning. Want to reach out? Text us at (602) 281-3898, email [email protected], or visit https://americanretirementadvisors.com.
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How to Tell Your Kids What They're Getting, Before You're Gone
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, and inheritance planning. Want to reach out? Text us at (602) 281-3898, email [email protected], or visit https://americanretirementadvisors.com.
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How to Help a Struggling Adult Child Without Ruining Them
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.americanretirementadvisors.com/inheritance-conversation-help-without-ruining/American Retirement Advisors helps families in Arizona and Nevada navigate healthcare, retirement income, and inheritance planning. Want to reach out? Text us at (602) 281-3898, email [email protected], or visit americanretirementadvisors.com.
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How to Talk to a Parent About Money When Time Is Short
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 words to use tonight.Read the full article: https://news.americanretirementadvisors.com/inheritance-conversation-when-time-is-short/American Retirement Advisors helps families in Arizona and Nevada navigate healthcare, retirement income, and inheritance planning. Want to reach out? Text us at (602) 281-3898, email [email protected], or visit americanretirementadvisors.com.
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The Inheritance That Comes With a Deadline
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 inherited a traditional IRA in the last few years.Read the full article: https://news.americanretirementadvisors.com/inherited-ira-ten-year-deadline/American Retirement Advisors helps families in Arizona and Nevada navigate healthcare, retirement income, and inheritance planning. Want to reach out? Text us at (602) 281-3898, email [email protected], or visit americanretirementadvisors.com.
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The Rooms Are Filling Up Again
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.Read the full article: https://news.americanretirementadvisors.com/the-rooms-are-filling-up-again/American Retirement Advisors helps families in Arizona and Nevada navigate healthcare, retirement income, and inheritance planning. Want to reach out? Text us at (602) 281-3898, email [email protected], or visit americanretirementadvisors.com.
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Eddie and Betty Are Coming to the Big Screen
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 Advisors helps families in Arizona and Nevada navigate healthcare, retirement income, and inheritance planning. Want to reach out? Text us at (602) 281-3898, email [email protected], or visit https://americanretirementadvisors.com.
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Eddie and Betty Have Been Keeping a Secret
The two voices you have been listening to all summer said yes to something last week, and I promised them I would not spill it. Tomorrow morning, right here, Betty gets to tell you herself. This is the story of how they found their voice, and the one thing I am not allowed to say yet.Read the full article: https://news.americanretirementadvisors.com/eddie-and-betty-secret/American Retirement Advisors helps families in Arizona and Nevada navigate healthcare, retirement income, and inheritance planning. Want to reach out? Text us at (602) 281-3898, email [email protected], or visit https://americanretirementadvisors.com.
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Show Up Once: Badly Prepared Beats Perfectly Absent
The last card on the fridge is the easiest one to misread. You do not prepare for a first meeting with an advisor; the meeting is where preparing happens. Day five of The Fridge List closes the series: why walking in with a shoebox and three questions beats staying home with a perfect plan you never start.Read the full article: https://news.americanretirementadvisors.com/show-up-once/American Retirement Advisors helps families in Arizona and Nevada navigate healthcare, retirement income, and inheritance planning. Want to reach out? Text us at (602) 281-3898, email [email protected], or visit https://americanretirementadvisors.com.Get the box: www.beneficiarybox.com
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Put It in the Box: One Place Your Family Can Find Everything
The documents exist. The accounts exist. The passwords exist. Almost none of it lives in one place, and most of it lives in your memory. Day four of The Fridge List is one job: gather it all where your family can actually find it, and why a single labeled box beats a lifetime of good filing.Read the full article: https://news.americanretirementadvisors.com/put-it-in-the-box/American Retirement Advisors helps families in Arizona and Nevada navigate healthcare, retirement income, and inheritance planning. Want to reach out? Text us at (602) 281-3898, email [email protected], or visit https://americanretirementadvisors.com.Get the box: www.beneficiarybox.com
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Tell the Kids: The Call Parents Put Off
The documents are signed. Nobody has told the kids what is in them. Day three of The Fridge List is the executor conversation: who to call, what to say, and why the kids are relieved by that call, not burdened by it.Read the full article: https://news.americanretirementadvisors.com/tell-the-kids-the-call-parents-put-off/American Retirement Advisors helps families in Arizona and Nevada navigate healthcare, retirement income, and inheritance planning. Want to reach out? Text us at (602) 281-3898, email [email protected], or visit https://americanretirementadvisors.com.
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What Actually Happens in the First Trust Meeting?
The appointment is on the calendar, and the dread changes shape. What happens in that room? Day two of The Fridge List walks you into the first trust meeting: a conversation, not an exam, fewer decisions than you fear, and a cost you learn up front. And almost everyone says the same thing on the way out.Read the full article: https://news.americanretirementadvisors.com/inside-the-first-trust-meeting/American Retirement Advisors helps families in Arizona and Nevada navigate healthcare, retirement income, and inheritance planning. Want to reach out? Text us at (602) 281-3898, email [email protected], or visit https://americanretirementadvisors.com.
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Why Is the Attorney's Number Still on Your Refrigerator?
The card went up under a magnet so you would see it every day and call. That was years ago. 73 percent of Americans say estate planning matters to them, and 56 percent have not signed a single document. Day one of The Fridge List: the call is smaller than the dread. Here is what it actually sounds like.Read the full article: https://news.americanretirementadvisors.com/attorneys-number-on-your-refrigerator/American Retirement Advisors helps families in Arizona and Nevada navigate healthcare, retirement income, and inheritance planning. Want to reach out? Text us at (602) 281-3898, email [email protected], or visit https://americanretirementadvisors.com.
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The Box They Named Bob
A couple we work with gave their beneficiary planning box a name, and somewhere along the way, Bob became part of the family. This is a story about paperwork, which means it is really a story about love, new grandkids, and the kindest gift you can leave on a shelf.Read the full article: https://news.americanretirementadvisors.com/the-box-they-named-bob/American Retirement Advisors helps families in Arizona and Nevada navigate healthcare, retirement income, and inheritance planning. Want to reach out? Text us at (602) 281-3898, email [email protected], or visit https://americanretirementadvisors.com.
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The Steak Dinner
You know the invitation. Heavy cardstock, a nice restaurant, a free dinner, and a presentation about an exciting financial opportunity. Go. Enjoy the steak. I mean that sincerely. Just bring the one question that turns the whole evening in your favor.Read the full article: https://news.americanretirementadvisors.com/the-steak-dinner/American Retirement Advisors helps families in Arizona and Nevada navigate healthcare, retirement income, and inheritance planning. Want to reach out? Text us at (602) 281-3898, email [email protected], or visit https://americanretirementadvisors.com.
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Every Product Had Its Own Salesperson
One of our clients sees more doctors than anyone I know, and every one of them is careful, thorough, and completely unaware of what the others are doing. His money worked the same way for thirty years. Here is what happens when nobody is the general practitioner, and what it looks like when somebody finally is.Read the full article: https://news.americanretirementadvisors.com/every-product-had-its-own-salesperson/American Retirement Advisors helps families in Arizona and Nevada navigate healthcare, retirement income, and inheritance planning. Want to reach out? Text us at (602) 281-3898, email [email protected], or visit https://americanretirementadvisors.com.
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The Death Benefit You Already Own
Plenty of retirees are carrying a death benefit they forgot about, tucked inside an annuity, an old policy, or a benefit from a job they left years ago. Before you buy new life insurance, take an inventory. The smartest sentence I've heard in a review meeting this year explains why.Read the full article: https://news.americanretirementadvisors.com/annuity-death-benefit-vs-life-insurance/American Retirement Advisors helps families in Arizona and Nevada navigate healthcare, retirement income, and inheritance planning. Want to reach out? Text us at (602) 281-3898, email [email protected], or visit https://americanretirementadvisors.com.
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Funeral Insurance or a Prepaid Funeral? Not Both.
Funeral insurance and a prepaid funeral are two answers to the same question, and plenty of people are quietly paying for both. Here is what each one actually is, the federal rule that protects you at the funeral home, and the one conversation that keeps you from buying the same peace of mind twice.Read the full article: https://news.americanretirementadvisors.com/funeral-insurance-vs-prepaid-funeral/American Retirement Advisors helps families in Arizona and Nevada navigate healthcare, retirement income, and inheritance planning. Want to reach out? Text us at (602) 281-3898, email [email protected], or visit https://americanretirementadvisors.com.
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Your Money Has Drug Interactions Too
You would never take a new medication without checking what it does alongside the ones you already take. But most people buy annuities, life insurance, even funeral policies without asking the same question. One client's story shows why the question matters more than the product.Read the full article: https://news.americanretirementadvisors.com/your-money-has-drug-interactions-too/American Retirement Advisors helps families in Arizona and Nevada navigate healthcare, retirement income, and inheritance planning. Want to reach out? Text us at (602) 281-3898, email [email protected], or visit https://americanretirementadvisors.com.
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Seven Ways In, Part 7: A Bill Arrives for Income You No Longer Have
The finale of Seven Ways In, a seven-part series on how seven very different people arrived at the same program, and the one detail that decided each case. Today: he retired in April after a big final year, deliberately so. The following January a notice arrives explaining his Medicare premium will be roughly triple what he expected, because of what he earned two years ago. Eddie and Betty walk through the 2026 income brackets, why they are cliffs rather than slopes, the form most people have never heard of that fixes this, and the planning version that avoids it entirely. Read the full article: https://news.americanretirementadvisors.com/bill-for-income-you-no-longer-have/ That is all seven. Not one of these people was careless.
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Seven Ways In, Part 6: She Picked Advantage Three Years Ago. Nobody Mentioned the Door Locked Behind Her.
Part six of Seven Ways In, a seven-part series on how seven very different people arrived at the same program, and the one detail that decided each case. Today: she picked a Medicare Advantage plan at 65. Three years later she wants a supplement, and for the first time an insurance company gets to decide whether it wants her. Eddie and Betty walk through the one enrollment window in your life that never repeats, the twelve-month trial right most people have never heard of, and why none of this makes Advantage the wrong choice. Read the full article: https://news.americanretirementadvisors.com/door-locked-behind-her/ Next in Seven Ways In, the finale: a bill arrives for income you no longer have.
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Seven Ways In, Part 5: He Turns 65. She Is 62 and on His Plan. Nobody Asks About Her.
Part five of Seven Ways In, a seven-part series on how seven very different people arrived at the same program, and the one detail that decided each case. Today: he turns 65 and she is 62, on his employer plan. Medicare is an individual program. There is no family version and no spouse rider. Eddie and Betty walk through what actually happens to the younger half of a couple when the older half ages into Medicare, the three ways to bridge those years, and the rule about voluntarily dropping coverage that can quietly close a door she needs. Read the full article: https://news.americanretirementadvisors.com/nobody-asks-about-her/ Next in Seven Ways In: she chose Medicare Advantage three years ago, wants a supplement now, and is about to meet medical underwriting for the first time.
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Seven Ways In, Part 4: Everyone Called It Excellent Retiree Coverage
Part four of Seven Ways In, a seven-part series on how seven very different people arrived at the same program, and the one detail that decided each case. Today: he retired from a city job with the retiree health plan everyone in the building envied. What nobody explained is that retiree coverage and employer coverage are two different things under Medicare rules. Eddie and Betty walk through the sentence in Medicare guidance that decides what that excellent plan is actually worth, the three questions to bring to a benefits office, and why this catches careful people who did nothing wrong. Read the full article: https://news.americanretirementadvisors.com/excellent-retiree-coverage/ Next in Seven Ways In: he turns 65, she is 62 and on his plan, and nobody asks about her.
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Seven Ways In, Part 3: He Was Told He Did Not Need Part B Because He Had the VA
Part three of Seven Ways In, a seven-part series on how seven very different people arrived at the same program, and the one detail that decided each case. Today: a veteran turns 65 and someone he trusts tells him he does not need Medicare Part B because he has the VA. It is offered kindly, it sounds like common sense, and it quietly assumes something that is not true. Eddie and Betty walk through what the VA says on its own website about using both, why having Medicare does not reduce your VA benefits at all, and what declining Part B actually costs if you change your mind years later. Read the full article: https://news.americanretirementadvisors.com/told-he-didnt-need-part-b/ Next in Seven Ways In: a public sector retiree with coverage everyone called excellent, and the sentence in Medicare guidance that decides what it is really worth.
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Seven Ways In, Part 2: She Had Two Years of COBRA Left. She Had Two Months of Medicare Left.
Part two of Seven Ways In, a seven-part series on how seven very different people arrived at the same program, and the one detail that decided each case. Today: she was let go at sixty-eight after decades with the same company, and handed two years of COBRA. It felt generous, and it was. What nobody mentioned is that a completely separate clock had started the day her employment ended. Eddie and Betty walk through the sentence in Medicare's own guidance that catches careful people, why COBRA can be worthless for Part B and still protect you on Part D, and whether she made it in time. Read the full article: https://news.americanretirementadvisors.com/two-years-of-cobra/ Next in Seven Ways In: a veteran who was told he did not need Part B because he had the VA.
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Seven Ways In, Part 1: He Turned 65, Kept the Company Plan, and Medicare Was Already First in Line
Part one of Seven Ways In, a seven-part series on how seven very different people arrived at the same program, and the one detail that decided each case. Today: the business owner. There is a line in the Medicare rules drawn at twenty employees. On one side, your group plan pays your bills first. On the other side, Medicare does, whether or not you ever signed up for it. Eddie and Betty walk through what that means for anyone who owns a business and is anywhere near 65, why the answer is sometimes to change nothing at all, and the eight-month window that starts sooner than almost everyone thinks. Read the full article: https://news.americanretirementadvisors.com/already-first-in-line/ Next in Seven Ways In: a woman let go at sixty-eight, handed two years of COBRA, who came in six months later.
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I Have Been Reading the Mail the Carriers Send Us. You Should See It Too.
Four things happened in the last ten days that change what your 2027 Medicare decision looks like. All of them are public. None of them were announced to you. Here is what came into our advisors' inboxes this summer, and what it means for your family.Read the full article: https://news.americanretirementadvisors.com/the-mail-the-carriers-send-us/American Retirement Advisors helps families in Arizona and Nevada navigate healthcare, retirement income, and inheritance planning. Want to reach out? Text us at (602) 281-3898, email [email protected], or visit https://americanretirementadvisors.com.
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The Door That Closes at 65, and the Gap Sixty-One Years Never Filled
All week we followed a promise that took fifty-three years to win. Today, the two things about it that matter most to your family: a one-time enrollment window that does not repeat, and the one expense Medicare has never covered. That gap is doing to families today exactly what hospital bills did in 1960.Read the full article: https://news.americanretirementadvisors.com/the-door-that-closes-at-65/American Retirement Advisors helps families in Arizona and Nevada navigate healthcare, retirement income, and inheritance planning. Want to reach out? Text us at (602) 281-3898, email [email protected], or visit https://americanretirementadvisors.com.
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The Three Things Medicare Did That Almost Nobody Gives It Credit For
In the spring of 1966, roughly seven hundred federal workers fanned out across the country to inspect two thousand hospitals in three months. They were not checking the medicine. They were checking whether Black patients were admitted, because no hospital that discriminated could take Medicare money. That is one of three things this program did that are missing from the popular story.Read the full article: https://news.americanretirementadvisors.com/what-nobody-credits-it-for/American Retirement Advisors helps families in Arizona and Nevada navigate healthcare, retirement income, and inheritance planning. Want to reach out? Text us at (602) 281-3898, email [email protected], or visit https://americanretirementadvisors.com.
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Sixty-One Years Ago Today, a President Flew to Missouri to Finish Someone Else's Fight
On July 30, 1965, Lyndon Johnson did not sign Medicare in Washington. He flew to Independence, Missouri, walked into the Truman Library, and signed it in front of the man who had lost this fight twenty years earlier. Then he handed Harry Truman the first Medicare card ever issued. Bess got the second.Read the full article: https://news.americanretirementadvisors.com/sixty-one-years-ago-today/American Retirement Advisors helps families in Arizona and Nevada navigate healthcare, retirement income, and inheritance planning. Want to reach out? Text us at (602) 281-3898, email [email protected], or visit https://americanretirementadvisors.com.
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The Man Who Blocked Medicare for Years, Then Built It in One Night
By 1965 there were three rival health bills in Congress, and two of them existed to make sure Medicare never happened. The chairman who had strangled the idea for a decade looked at all three, said maybe we should put them together, and told a staffer to have it drafted by morning. That is why your card has a Part A and a Part B.Read the full article: https://news.americanretirementadvisors.com/the-three-layer-cake/American Retirement Advisors helps families in Arizona and Nevada navigate healthcare, retirement income, and inheritance planning. Want to reach out? Text us at (602) 281-3898, email [email protected], or visit https://americanretirementadvisors.com.
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The Record Album That Almost Stopped Medicare
In 1961, the campaign to stop Medicare did not run on television. It arrived in the mail as a vinyl record, addressed to doctors' wives, with instructions to invite the neighbors over for coffee and play it. The man speaking on that record later became president. Twenty-seven years later he signed the largest expansion Medicare had ever had.Read the full article: https://news.americanretirementadvisors.com/the-record-album-that-almost-stopped-medicare/American Retirement Advisors helps families in Arizona and Nevada navigate healthcare, retirement income, and inheritance planning. Want to reach out? Text us at (602) 281-3898, email [email protected], or visit https://americanretirementadvisors.com.
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The Word That Held Off Medicare for 53 Years
In 1912, a former president put health insurance for the old and the sick on a national ballot. It did not become law until 1965. In between sits one of the longest arguments in American history, and a single phrase that kept winning it. Harry Truman saw the phrase coming and tried to disarm it in advance. It beat him anyway.Read the full article: https://news.americanretirementadvisors.com/the-word-that-held-off-medicare/American Retirement Advisors helps families in Arizona and Nevada navigate healthcare, retirement income, and inheritance planning. Want to reach out? Text us at (602) 281-3898, email [email protected], or visit https://americanretirementadvisors.com.
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Same Plane, Same Destination
I am writing this from seat 27B. My daughter is next to me. My wife and my baby boy are somewhere else on this airplane, separated from each other, and I found out about all of it at the door. What happened next is the best explanation of cost versus value I have ever lived through.Read the full article: https://news.americanretirementadvisors.com/same-plane-same-destination/American Retirement Advisors helps families in Arizona and Nevada navigate healthcare, retirement income, and inheritance planning. Want to reach out? Text us at (602) 281-3898, email [email protected], or visit https://americanretirementadvisors.com.
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The Three Plays the Pros Run
Yesterday you learned the three tax buckets. Today, the playbook. Three specific strategies sophisticated planners run with permanent life insurance, including one that can defuse the tax bill your kids would otherwise inherit along with your IRA. Part five of The Evolution of a Promise.Read the full article: https://news.americanretirementadvisors.com/three-plays-the-pros-run/American Retirement Advisors helps families in Arizona and Nevada navigate healthcare, retirement income, and inheritance planning. Want to reach out? Text us at (602) 281-3898, email [email protected], or visit https://americanretirementadvisors.com.
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How Are Your Assets Actually Taxed? The Three-Bucket Diagnostic
Two households, identical incomes, very different tax bills. The difference is not luck and it is not loopholes. It is which of three buckets each dollar comes out of. Part four of The Evolution of a Promise leaves the history books and lands in your kitchen.Read the full article: https://news.americanretirementadvisors.com/how-are-retirement-assets-taxed/American Retirement Advisors helps families in Arizona and Nevada navigate healthcare, retirement income, and inheritance planning. Want to reach out? Text us at (602) 281-3898, email [email protected], or visit https://americanretirementadvisors.com.
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Every Tool in the Life Insurance Box Was Invented for a Problem
Term, whole life, the policy your employer hands you, and a product born because the 1970s broke everything. None of them were invented to be sold. Each one was invented because a specific decade handed ordinary families a specific problem. Part three of The Evolution of a Promise.Read the full article: https://news.americanretirementadvisors.com/every-tool-was-invented-for-a-problem/American Retirement Advisors helps families in Arizona and Nevada navigate healthcare, retirement income, and inheritance planning. Want to reach out? Text us at (602) 281-3898, email [email protected], or visit https://americanretirementadvisors.com.
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Welcome to Inheritance Planning Made 123Easy, where father-son duo David and Ian Schaeffer bring a family-centered approach to inheritance planning, retirement security, and building legacies that last. As part of American Retirement Advisors, David and Ian have helped countless families protect what matters most and ensure that what they’ve built is preserved for generations to come.In each episode, they’ll walk you through the essential steps of inheritance planning, from organizing vital documents to protecting assets, minimizing taxes, and communicating family values and goals. With a focus on the “3 P’s” of inheritance planning—Prepare, Protect, and Preserve—they’ll show you how to align today’s financial choices with tomorrow’s family needs, keeping relationships and family dynamics at the heart of the process.David and Ian don’t just talk about inheritance planning for clients—they bring their own family into the conversation. Join
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