Vets Beware!
Are you a veteran interested in VA benefits . . . but worried about being taken for an “annuity ride”? Want to know the best way to use annuities if you are looking at VA benefits? Read on!
The problem: Some unscrupulous annuity sales people use VA benefits as an … Continue Reading
VA Pension benefit (Aid & Attendance) rules will likely borrow a few Medicaid concepts under legislation proposed by North Carolina Senator Richard Burr and Oregon Senator Ron Wyden. Thanks to the kindness of Senator Burr’s office, I have managed to grab a copy of the bill … Continue Reading
A scam common in many parts of the country has come to central North Carolina. Veterans (and widows of veterans) are being duped into funneling hundreds of thousands of dollars into totally inappropriate (even disastrous) annuities. The come on? “I can qualify Mom for another … Continue Reading
Let Us Never Forget Those Who Gave Their All
We may not, and should not, approve of war and violence. But until we learn to make a better world, that is the way it is, and this is the lesson of Memorial Day: Nothing is ever wholly negative, nothing is ever wholly lost. Despite … Continue Reading
Coastal Senior is a monthly periodical published in Savannah, Georgia and circulated throughout the Georgia and South Carolina low country. Bob Mason is its legal columnist.
On a hot and steely south Pacific day 64 years ago 18-year old Ensign John Mason earned a Navy Cross … Continue Reading