AMAC FOUNDATION INC

The Foundation's goal is to help protect and ensure the financial security, health, and social lives of current and future mature Americans, and to help Americans navigate the bewildering array of decisions they need to make.

In addition to providing seminars on topics of importance to seniors, the Foundation is staffed with NSSA-certified Social Security Advisors dedicated to providing credible information to individuals in, or aging into, Social Security beneficiary status. This press release was issued in mid-2016 to explain the launch of this service:

Members of the Lady Lake-based AMAC Foundation staff have earned accreditation as National Social Security Advisors, qualifying them to counsel retirees and pre-retirees on questions and issues pertaining to Social Security. The training preceding the qualification exam equips these Advisors to provide guidance on the many Social Security options available, and enables them to provide a trusted service to the public. Certification is accredited through the Ohio-based National Social Security Association (NSSA).

Our Advisors are available to handle questions submitted to the Foundation, either by telephone (888-750-2622), by email ([email protected], or in-person by appointment at the Foundation's office (312 Teague Trail, Lady Lake, Florida).

“The certification of our Foundation representatives is critical to our mission of supporting and educating America's seniors," reported Foundation President Dan Weber, “and we believe that providing credible, unbiased information to people in, or aging into, Social Security is an important part of what the Foundation does. And, since the Foundation is a tax-exempt organization relying solely on contributions from the public to operate, there is no charge for this valuable service."

Learn more about these accredited individuals via the Social Security Report website, a related service of the AMAC Foundation. This site contains a wealth of information about the U.S. Social Security System, featuring thousands of news reports on a variety of Social Security and retirement-related topics, as well as a library of important reports and documents regarding what's happening in Social Security. Site visitors will find, among other useful features, a daily Q&A panel providing useful information on commonly- asked questions, as well as a collection of helpful tools for use in planning retirement strategies and as an electronic version of the Foundation's “Who's Who in Social Security" publication. The site is key-word searchable, making it a handy source of information for people needing to research specific aspects of Social Security.

Initially, we are focusing on two fronts: (1) the national level, with our publicly-accessible websites (Social Security Report and Medicare Report) and our accredited Social Security Advisory Service; and (2) locally, with provision of educational programs and regularly-scheduled editorial content aimed primarily toward seniors. We are continually honing these initiatives to sharpen their focus, and presenting them to selected regions of the country via the AMAC network, with local facilitation provided by AMAC volunteers. Several years ago, we began broadcasting selected seminars via our internal live streaming service, with streamed events recorded and subsequently made available for on-demand access by the public on our Foundation website. We are continuing this approach, archiving this the content Foundation's website.

Another local focus area is the Foundation's staff of certified Social Security Advisors described in the preceding section. Our strategy for continually improving the level of service in this area is to maintain an up-to-the-minute awareness of Social Security policy and regulation, and remaining a state of readiness to provide consultation to AMAC's advocacy organization--AMAC Action--in the analysis of congressional bills as they are introduced in Congress.

On the local level, we also constantly solicit feedback from constituents on the need for information in support of the Senior community, taking this feedback and using it to create an on-going schedule of seminars and briefings for the public.

The Foundation's staff is small but competent, as evidenced by the successes we've already generated. We have substantial intellectual capacity in the form of affiliated staff members having extensive professional experience, and we have access to volunteers capable of delivering the services we believe are integral to the well-being of our constituents. We've produced outstanding results with limited resources, and believe that we are poised to achieve wide-ranging results as our capacity builds. Likewise, our trained and certified Social Security Advisors form the basis for a robust level of service to seniors in need of credible information.

The AMAC Foundation has now been in operation for eight years, and in that period of time has created a sound footprint in service to America’s seniors. These services have taken the form of public seminars and workshops on topics vital to an aging constituency, the operation of a vigorous online presence designed to meet the needs of seniors, and the provision of direct services in the form of credible answers to questions about the mechanics of America’s Social Security program.

Since its launch in 2016, our Social Security Advisory Service has providing counseling service to well over 20,000 Seniors desperate to understand the complexities of this program, and generally unable to obtain assistance from governmental sources. This Advisory Service, considered to be our flagship program, has been a huge success for the Foundation, and is now servicing 700-800 requests every month--folks needing assistance and guidance in navigating the Social Security maze and protecting their future financial well-being. This is truly a national service, with requests for help originating from nearly every state in the country and from many citizens residing offshore.

Through live-streamed seminars and the on-demand availability of recorded versions of these events via the Foundation’s website, and through the provision of hundreds of radio broadcasts on Social Security issues, the Foundation’s reach has experienced considerable expansion over the past two years. Likewise, the Foundation has been assisted greatly by frequent opportunities to contribute to AMAC, Inc. media, primarily through regular articles on Social Security issues and reprints of Social Security Q&A newsletters in the AMAC Magazine.

Details on these accomplishments are presented in our published Annual Reports, along with our plans for the coming year and our thoughts on the road ahead. While our progress since launching eight years ago has been solid, we know that continued broadening of our exposure and our reach is essential to maintaining relevance in a rapidly evolving world. As a result, we plan to continue aliging portions of our future trajectory with AMAC’s affiliate advocacy arm, AMAC Action, and its initiative to build a nationwide network of Chapters designed to be the local face of the Association. Working through these local chapters would offer an opportunity for us to deliver services to a broader range of the public and would enable us to extend the Foundation’s brand—and by extension the AMAC brand—to an even greater audience.