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New Study: Medicaid Reimbursements Fail to Meet Actual Costs of Caring for Medicaid Nursing Home Residents

For each dollar a nursing home spends providing daily care to a Medicaid recipient, the average nursing home receives just 82 cents in reimbursement. This was the top-level finding of a study published this week, led by multiple researchers, including… Continue Reading →

Investing in the field: Three UMass Boston undergraduates serve as summer research fellows at BC’s Center for Retirement Research

When Delaney Inman tells you she had a great summer, it’s not because she traveled to exotic locations or lazed on the beach for days. Instead, she took an online economics class, learned how to use the statistics software Stata,… Continue Reading →

From poverty to adequacy: For two decades, UMass Boston’s Elder Index has been changing the conversation around older adults’ financial security

One in a series of stories about the history of the UMass Boston Gerontology Institute and its centers and programs as we celebrate the Institute’s 40th anniversary in 2024. Since its inception in 2006 , the Elder Index™ has served… Continue Reading →

LTSS Center to lead three-year research project on “overlooked middle” for California Department of Aging

The California Department of Aging awarded a three-year, $4.3 million contract to the LeadingAge LTSS Center @UMass Boston—through the center’s partner, Community Catalyst—to study policy opportunities to address the affordability of long-term services and supports. The project, the largest single… Continue Reading →

Annual report showcases Pension Action Center’s growing impact

In fiscal year 2023, staff members and volunteers at the Gerontology Institute’s Pension Action Center opened 330 cases and recovered $1.1 million in pension benefits, at no cost to clients. These facts and more are featured in the center’s latest… Continue Reading →

Pension Action Center’s early leaders reflect on history of ‘concrete victories’

As the Gerontology Institute’s Pension Action Center (PAC) celebrates its 30th anniversary in 2024, the center counts more than $70 million in retirement benefits recovered for more than 11,000 clients across its service area of New England and Illinois. One… Continue Reading →

Pension Action Center’s fraud summit educates attendees on fighting prevalent fraud and scams

More than 250 guests attended a “Summit to Fight Fraud” organized by the Gerontology Institute’s Pension Action Center at UMass Boston on March 19, 2024. The event, sponsored by Investor Protection Trust and co-presented by the Massachusetts Securities Division, featured… Continue Reading →

UMass Boston joins Boston College’s Center for Retirement Research as affiliate

UMass Boston has begun a five-year partnership with the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College (CRR) as an affiliated research institution, a collaboration that opens opportunities for UMass Boston researchers and students. In the first year of the partnership,… Continue Reading →

Pension Action Center to offer education sessions on SECURE 2.0’s pension overpayment protections

For decades, retirees receiving private or federal pensions have been vulnerable to an odd threat: overpayment of their benefits. A retiree who should be receiving $500 each month, for example, might have actually received $575 monthly for the last 15… Continue Reading →

Pension Action Center awarded two grants for education, advocacy

The Gerontology Institute’s Pension Action Center (PAC) has been awarded two concurrent grants funded by the Investor Protection Trust, a nonprofit organization dedicated to independent investor education, research, and support. The two projects build on the expertise of PAC’s staff,… Continue Reading →

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