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The purpose of this specific website is to explore the Medicare topic, providing information that will help current and prospective Medicare beneficiaries understand the composition of this portion of Social Security. Likewise, the site is designed to help all Americans stay abreast of legislative activities that have an impact on their participation in Medicare. The AMAC Foundation’s objective with this site is to help Americans understand their benefits and obligations as they participate. In addition to Medicare’s background information, the site presents newsfeeds on developing information about all facets of the program. These newsfeeds, posted daily, are culled from a broad range of media sources, and are categorized as an aid to site visitors having an interest in tracking specific Medicare components.

If you passed away tomorrow, will your loved ones know what to do? Will they know where your financial information and tax records, insurance records, and investment documents are stored? Will they be able to locate your most current will, health care directives, and documented funeral wishes? Can they locate important household documents, like deeds, car titles, and pension statements? That's the central theme for this seminar series, structured to guide participants through the process of creating a “Survivor Notebook,” the repository that will help loved ones cope after a loved one's passing. Conducted in three separate two-hour sessions, we’ll walk you through identifying what needs to be considered, assembling the material as we go in an accessible format, and we’ll be developing an approach to maintaining the material so that it’s always current. You’ll leave with a physical roadmap that will be of immeasurable value to your family.

The Association of Mature American Citizens (AMAC) has long held the support of our country’s armed forces Veterans to be a priority. AMAC founder Dan Weber served in the USAF and felt strongly that Veteran entrepreneurship and community were key ingredients in the strength of our nation and its economy. AMAC’s affinity with the Veteran community is deep, with roughly 75% of membership families having a direct Veteran connection, and 31% of 2 million+ members having served in the military.
AMAC Foundation expanded its support for the Veterans Community, AMAC Foundation Veteran Outreach Program (FVOP). In collaboration with related support organizations nationwide, we serve to educate and inform American Veterans on programs and policies that will improve their lives in honor of their service to our Nation. The Foundation’s initial focus for this Veteran collaboration will center on:
Encouraging patriotic service
Suicide prevention
Transition to civilian life
Veterans in small business

Throughout its operating history, our Foundation has operated a seminar series designed to bring valuable information to our Senior constituency. As we dealt with the continued Covid-19 pandemic and its recurring variants this year, we found it necessary to again limit our in-person programs in favor of a hybrid approach with frequent virtual sessions using Zoom software. We recognize that this is not an ideal way of providing information to the public, and since many folks prefer the in-person attention, we slowly began to re-enter the live seminar mode early in 2021, bringing us back into the “live” business, so to speak, at least on a limited scale. Examples of seminars and webinars offered in 2021 include:
• Protecting the Elderly from Fraud and Abuse
• Medicare Basics/New to Medicare
• Women and Social Security
• Sudden Death—Are You Prepared?
• Understanding Alzheimer's and Dementia
• Parkinson’s Disease – Overview and Q&A session
• Veterans Benefits

Our Foundation’s highly-acclaimed Social Security Advisory Service continues to draw accolades from an appreciative public. Through the end of 2022, our six-Advisor staff helped over 27,000 seniors navigate the Social Security maze, often rescuing them from the state of confusion they’ve fallen into as a result of the program’s massive collection of rules and regulations.

Our service level goal is to respond to most questions within 24 hours and all questions within 48 hours, depending on the amount of research required. This goal is of particular importance to those seeking service, many anxious to make a decision and needing to know the implications of these decisions.
In addition, our Advisors are frequently called on to provide group webinars or in-person presentations and policy-related consulting on congressional bills affecting Social Security. A Social Security Seminar was held again in March 2022 and 2023 to deliver the basics on SS benefits to the Lady Lake, FL region.

Planning for retirement is a process that has multiple dimensions, beginning of course with taking the right steps to build the financial framework you’ll need to live comfortably. Then there’s the matter of maintaining your health so that you can get the most—physically—out of those leisure years. While these are arguably the two most important steps in the process, there’s a third leg to this stool that tends to require a matching level of thought: where to spend your “golden years.” An emerging trend is the desire to remain in one's home rather than an assisting living facility. In early 2020, we held a tremendously successful "Aging in Place Exposition" designed to showcase a variety of important aspects of this growing trend. Based on its success, we repeated this event in March 2023 in Wildwood, FL.

We continue to publish a minimum of 1 new in-depth article weekly. We are continuing to keep up with or exceed the pace since 2021. Through the first four months of 2022, we’ve issued 26 separate articles—many of them “guest” posts from individuals and journalists who have noticed the growing reach of our site and the value it provides. We continued to publish "original" content and work with freelance writers to ensure resources and/or links are included. From January to mid-April 2023, 21 articles were published.
We use these posts to convey critical ideas to our constituency on subjects of substantial importance to Seniors and Veterans, including Veteran-related topics, Senior care, and Elder Fraud. The articles are posted at at AmacFoundation.org/News. Other topics covered include Senior Health, Veterans Benefits, Senior Support, general Foundation news, and general holiday greetings.

To expand on what we’re already doing, our team completed design of a new fee-based service targeted at small to medium companies that do not have on-staff resources familiar with the intricacies of Social Security. Our design approach is to offer the service on-site at a company’s location, featuring a “packaged” approach with the following components:
• A focused seminar on Social Security, from basics to details (about a two-hour session)
• Focused discussions on items pre-selected for the audience (e.g., spousal benefits, survivor issues, calculation of benefits, filing strategies, rules for government retirees, etc.)
• Individual appointment-based sessions to discuss questions, personal situations, etc.
The service was piloted at a local company, and subsequently conducted at a second company in northern Florida. This program continues into 2023 with a potential session scheduled at a NJ company mid-year.