AARP Virginia has canceled the 97th District candidate forum that was set to take place between Delegate Michael Feggans and former delegate Tim Anderson on Tuesday, September 23, at the Kempsville Area Library in Virginia Beach.
Criminals have so many ways to getting in touch with us these days. According to new data from the Federal Trade Commission, the winning entry path in 2022 was the internet.
In Virginia, fewer than 55% of residents and nearly 95% of staff were up-to-date on their vaccinations, rates that have been about the same for the past three months.
AARP Virginia State President Joyce Williams spoke recently at the 25th Annual Healthy Aging Conference in Williamsburg, where she provided a wide-ranging AARP Update to attendees.
On Aug. 25, 1967, in front of a laundromat at a nondescript neighborhood strip mall in the quiet Washington, D.C., suburb of Arlington, Va., American Nazi Party leader George Lincoln Rockwell was gunned down.
When Carol B. Amos began Alzheimer's caregiving for her mother, she learned that help, organization, preparation, and education, or H.O.P.E., helped her navigate the various stages of the journey.
If there is one constant in the criminal world it’s that scammers follow the news. Student loan forgiveness has been the focus of recent headlines, which has given scammers room for student-loan-related fraud.
According to the Federal Trade Commission, consumers reported losing $2.6 billion to impostor scams in 2022. One of the longest running impostor scams involves the IRS, so tax time is a good time to draw attention to it.
The numbers are in and 2022 was a doozy. While total reported scams to the Federal Trade Commission dropped by 1 million, the total reported amount lost grew by $2 billion for a total of $8.8 billion lost to scams and fraud. And this is just what’s reported – we know fraud is severely under-reported. Fueling the growth were dramatic increases in investment schemes and scams asking for cryptocurrency as a form of payment.