AARP today announced three Nebraska organizations—Nebraska Investment Finance Authority (NIFA), Partners for Livable Omaha, and Project Houseworks—will receive 2025 Community Challenge grant funding. The grants are part of AARP’s $4.2 million commitment to fund 383 quick-action projects aimed at making communities more livable for people of all ages, with a focus on the needs of older adults. The funds will support efforts to improve public places, transportation, housing, digital connections, and other key areas.
Through July 15, 2025, AARP Nebraska is accepting nominations for its 2025 Andrus Award for Community Service, which honors a Nebraskan age 50-plus who shares their experience, talent, and skills to enrich their community and enhance the lives of its residents.
Support is finally on the way for Nebraska’s 179,000 family caregivers with the newly passed Caregiver Tax Credit starting in the 2025 tax year. Find out if you may qualify with our short questionnaire.
The League of Women Voters of Lincoln-Lancaster County and AARP Nebraska will host a panel discussion about the Affordable Care Act in Lincoln Sept. 12. The public event will run from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. at the Unitarian Church, 6300 A St.
On the eve of the 78 th anniversary of the creation of Social Security, which provides an average annual retirement benefit of $14,800 to nearly 236,000 Nebraska seniors, AARP Executive Vice President Nancy LeaMond issued the following statement:
AARP Nebraska today released the first in a “commonsense solutions” series of new videos on the 48th anniversary of President Lyndon Johnson signing Medicare into law on July 30, 1965. Nebraska has 240,273 residents who rely on Medicare for their health care coverage, on average spending 12 percent of their income out-of-pocket for their health care costs. AARP’s Executive Vice President Nancy LeaMond released the following statement with the video:
Health care fraud is a booming business across the U.S., ranging from $80 billion to $160 billion in losses each year. The Federal Trade Commission estimates that consumers themselves lose more than $10 billion annually to health care fraud.
AARP volunteer and staff leaders from Nebraska and every other state in the nation visited Capitol Hill today to express opposition to the President’s proposed Social Security benefit cut known as Chained CPI and to support responsible solutions to strengthen Medicare. Meeting with members of Nebraska’s congressional delegation and their staff, AARP Nebraska urged our representatives to have a separate debate on Social Security and to back specific proposals that would strengthen Medicare and the health care system overall.