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Benefits in the News > By Subject > Long-term care Now Viewing Recent Headlines View Excerpts and Recent Headlines [Opinion] Defend Freedom: Repeal CLASS House Votes to Kill CLASS Program, LTCI Provision of Affordable Care Act Judge Says Same-Sex Health-Coverage Ban Biased Five Reasons to Offer LTC Insurance in 2012 The Calculating Required Before Buying a Long-Term Care Policy Should You Buy Long-Term Care Insurance? Maybe Not Cost of Long-Term Care Requires Additional Financial Planning Six Considerations When Shopping for LTC Insurance Six Basic Considerations for Employees When Shopping for LTC Insurance Shelving of CLASS Act Presents Opportunities and Challenges for Employers and Employees House Committee Votes to Repeal CLASS Act [Opinion] Video: How Can We Address Long-Term Care without CLASS? [Opinion] Comments to to HHS on Implications of GINA Application to Long-Term Care (PDF) Long-Term Care Costs: What's Next? What Happened to The CLASS Act? [Guidance Overview] Milliman's Monthly Benefit News and Developments, November 2011 (PDF) The 2011 MetLife Market Long-Term Care Costs' Survey of Nursing Home, Assisted Living, Adult Day Services, and Home Care Costs (PDF) [Opinion] The CLASS Act, Part of the Health Reform Bill, Quietly Abandoned IRS Announces Key Benefit Plan Limits for 2012 (PDF) [Opinion] Four Ways to Fix Long-Term Care [Opinion] Behind the Class Act, a Numbers Game HHS Suspends CLASS Program Indefinitely [Opinion] CLASS Long-Term Care Insurance Is Dead, but What Comes Next? Obama Administration Pulls Plug On CLASS, the Long-Term Care Program What Factors Affect the Future of Class: The Community Living Assistance Services and Supports Act Lawmakers Raise Doubts about CLASS Act's Future Some Optimism for CLASS Act's Future; Anticipation Mounts Regarding Essential Benefits Report Analyzing the Health Law's Tax Credits and the Class Act's Future Insuring Long Term Care in the U.S. CLASS Act's Future is in Doubth CLASS is Adjourned; Long-Term Care Federal Program on Hold [Guidance Overview] Payments to Caregivers Are Deductible as Qualified Long-Term Care Expenses [Guidance Overview] IRS Interim Guidance on Federal Income Tax Treatment of Annuity and Life Insurance Contracts with Long-Term Care Insurance Feature (PDF) GAO Report on Long-Term Care Insurance: Carrier Interest in Federal Program, Changes to Its Actuarial Assumptions, and OPM Oversight Gang Of Six Deficit Plan: Executive Summary AARP Study Finds Toll on Family Caregivers Is 'Huge' [Guidance Overview] Tax Court Allows Deduction for Payment to Long-Term Caregivers [Guidance Overview] CLASS Program Scheduled to Begin Operation in Fall of 2012 Average Long-term Health Care Claim $159,000 This Year: Analysis Health Care Reform's 'Class Act' Needs Employer Support to Be Viable [Guidance Overview] CLASS Program FAQs from HHS (PDF) Who Purchases Long-Term Care Insurance? [Opinion] Towers Watson Testimony at House Hearing: 'A Framework for Employers in Deciding Whether or Not to Participate in the CLASS Program' HHS Moving to Implement New CLASS Program Long-Term Care Insurance: A Piece of the Retirement & Estate Planning Puzzle (PDF) FAQ on the Community Living Assistance Services and Supports Program Released Hybrid LTC Plans Cited Among 2011 Benefit Trends Hybrid LTC Plans Cited Among 2011 Benefit Trends The Voluntary, Long-Term Care Insurance Program Known As the Community Living Assistance Services and Supports, or CLASS (PDF) Federal Agency to Launch Long-Term Care Insurance Open Season for Federal Employees Is Long-Term Care Insurance Worth the Price? [Guidance Overview] Married Gay Couples Can Sue for California State Benefit Rights [Guidance Overview] Court Win for Same-Sex Couples Seeking Benefits Federal Budget Deficit Commission Is Looking at the CLASS Act As a Possible Source of Deficit Relief Long-Term Care Insurance Business Struggling to Survive [Guidance Overview] IRS's 2011 Adjusted Limits for Long Term Care, MSAs, Adoption Assistance, and Tax Credit Limits [Guidance Overview] Perspectives on the CLASS Act: The Community Living Assistance Services and Support Act (PDF) CalPERS' Ailing Long-Term Care Plan 2010 Winners in '10 Best Companies for Employee Financial Security' Important word about authorship: BenefitsLink® (BenefitsLink.com) provides this page for you, containing selected hypertext links to pages on the web that our editors think will be useful or interesting to you. But BenefitsLink is not the author or publisher of those linked pages (except as expressly indicated). You should contact directly the author of any such linked pages for copyright or other information about their contents. Webmaster: Dave Baker (click)   ·   © 2012 BenefitsLink.com, Inc. (contact the webmaster for reprint permission)   ·   Linking: Feel free to link directly to this page, even without specifically crediting BenefitsLink ® as its source. Glad you're here!   ·   Privacy Policy