Michael Humes

AARP Living Longer, Living Smarter: July 21 at 6 p.m. AARP Fraud Watch Network: August 12 at 11 a.m.

AARP Connecticut is cooking up a summer special called “Tennis Two Ways” for this year’s Connecticut Open Presented by United Technologies Women’s Tennis Association event at the Connecticut Tennis Center at Yale in New Haven.

For the past seven years, Encore!Hartford has provided Hartford area Connecticut professionals age 50 and older with support in transitioning from a corporate career to one in the nonprofit sector. Now, The University of Connecticut Nonprofit Leadership Program , in partnership with Fairfield County nonprofit partners, has launched Encore!Fairfield County, creating an opportunity for more southern Connecticut residents to participate in the innovative program. Encore!Fairfield County is modeled after Encore!Hartford, which has an impressive track record. A five-year assessment of the program in 2015 revealed 91% of participants finding employment (70% full-time), and 73% of those employed landing in the nonprofit sector.

The below is from the story by Tribuna

La aprobación del Programa de Seguridad de Jubilación de Connecticut por parte de la legislatura estatal de este año ha abierto un camino para asegurar la jubilación financiera de más de 600.000 residentes de Connecticut, incluyendo más del 60 por ciento de hispanos y latinos. Antes de esta nueva ley, aquellos trabajadores empleados por las pequeñas empresas no tenían asegurado una oportunidad de un plan de ahorros de jubilación. Ahora, este camino está expedito para un futuro financiero más brillante en el 2018.

A partir del 1.º de julio la mayoría de los consumidores de Connecticut contarán con tarifas de servicio de generación de energía eléctrica mucho más bajas. La Autoridad Reguladora de Servicios Públicos de Connecticut (PURA) anunció a principios de marzo las nuevas tarifas de generación del servicio estándar para los clientes residenciales de Eversource y United Illuminating (UI). Las tarifas del servicio estándar residencial para Eversource disminuirán de 9.555 centavos por kilovatio-hora (kWh) a 6.606 centavos/kWh, y para UI de 10.7358 centavos/kWh a 8.0224 centavos/kWh.

Sometimes life takes you in a different direction than where you thought you’d go. But it’s never too late to make a change. Our free Life Reimagined event at Central Connecticut State University (CCSU) on Wednesday, June 29, will give you the tools and guidance needed to dust off a few dreams, and explore and discover your “What’s Next!”

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AARP Connecticut will donate $3000 on behalf of the Andrus recipient to an eligible non-profit organization of their choosing