AARP Florida

Tallahassee, Fla. -- To help educate older Floridians on how your state legislators are voting, AARP Florida will be working in 2013 to make information on lawmakers’ votes easier and quicker to find. AARP will be tracking votes on key issues including a ban on texting while driving, curbing annuities fraud, cracking down utility companies' extra fees for nuclear power plants that may never be built, and expanding affordable health-care coverage to uninsured Floridians of modest means.

Doug Heinlen to Serve Third Two-Year Term as AARP FL President

Modern communications technology enables new ways to connect and share information, and on March 8 and March 11, 2013 older adults in Orlando will participate in a hands-on training about how to harness this power. The AT&T Reconnect Tour, in alliance with Senior TechRALLY™ and presented by AARP, offers attendees a fresh perspective on smartphones, tablets and wireless technology overall.

Tallahassee, Fla. – AARP Florida State Director Jeff Johnson issued this statement Monday in reaction to a straight party-line vote in a House committee not to recommend expansion of Medicaid:

Texting while driving, better health-care coverage, and nuclear-power-plant advance fees are all on legislators' agenda this year.

Take the stress out of tax season this year, and follow these tips to ensure you’re getting the most out of your refund.

St. Petersburg, Fla. – As budget negotiations continue in Washington, AARP Florida today released an analysis showing the negative impact one proposal – the so called “chained CPI” -- would have on Florida’s veterans’ compensation and pensions .

Miami, Fla. – AARP Florida State Director Jeff Johnson has appointed South Florida residents Horacio Soberon-Ferrer and Kenneth Thomas, as members of the AARP Florida Executive Council, a group of top volunteer advisors leading the nation’s largest membership organization for people 50+ in the nation’s “grayest” state.

AARP Florida has presented Crystal River resident Ruth Levins with its 2012 Andrus Award for Community Service, the organization’s top volunteer honor for the year.

AARP’s strength is its members. Our members daily make a big difference in the lives of all generations of Americans, whether it's fighting to protect Social Security and Medicare from harmful cuts, battling unaffordable utility-rate increases for Florida consumers or working up a sweat improving Florida communities.