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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.
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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.
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We're fighting to ensure that all Nebraskans have access to affordable health care. Expanding Medicaid in Nebraska is our top legislative priority at the State Capitol in 2013. It would cover at least 54,000 uninsured adults younger than 65 and allow them to seek the health services they need.
Starting this fall, as many as 200,000 uninsured Nebraskans could seek insurance coverage through a new health benefit exchange created by the Affordable Care Act. AARP Nebraska today urged state lawmakers to prepare for challenges helping people enroll in health plans while opposing a bill that would make it harder for people to get the assistance they need.
As budget negotiations continue in Washington, AARP today released an analysis showing the negative impact one proposal – the so called “chained CPI” -- would have on Nebraska’s veterans’ compensation and pensions.
AARP says regressive measure would drive up health care and prescription drug costs
AARP Nebraska today announced support for legislation that would exempt about 60,000 retirees from state taxes on Social Security benefits.
AARP strongly backs state legislation expanding Medicaid to cover at least 54,000 uninsured Nebraskans.
AARP Nebraska Legislative Update - January 18, 2013
AARP CEO A. Barry Rand called for renewed focus on strengthening Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid in a Jan. 15 speech at the National Press Club. Rand discussed findings from AARP Public Policy Institute’s newly released “Middle Class Security Project,” which studies how middle class working Americans struggle – and often fail – to build and maintain retirement security.
Omaha resident Ann Van Hoff has been selected by AARP to receive Nebraska’s 2012 AARP Andrus Award for Community Service, the association’s most prestigious and visible volunteer award. This award symbolizes an individual’s power and ability to make a difference in the lives of others.
With the Dec. 31deadline to address expiring tax and spending cuts looming, many people across the nation and here in Nebraska are left wondering what Washington’s budget debate means for them. Unfortunately, some in Washington are considering cramming changes to Medicare and Social Security into a year-end budget deal.
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