Bell Rock Memorial Park

Bell Rock Memorial Park
Park since 1905, this site commemorates Malden's veterans atop Bell Rock upon which Malden's first settlers erected a church bell hung in a frame for 30 years to call colonial worshippers. First Meeting House stood on west side of rock 1649-1658 and Second Meeting House stood here 1660-1730. Park includes "The Flag Defenders" monument by Bela Pratt in tribute to soldiers and sailors of the Civil War. Also found are tablets memorializing Malden veterans of Revolutionary, Spanish American and First World Wars. An arch dedicated to Veterans of World War II has been restored and additional panels are being added to memorialize some 8,100 residents from across the City who served their country during this War.. The new World War II memorial will be unveiled and dedicated on June 26, 2010. Site laid out by noted landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted, who designed New York's Central Park and Boston's Emerald Necklace chain of parks. Bell Rock Memorial Park was named to the National Register of Historic Places in February, 2001.

the gradual decline of the country's middle class.

, the size of the U.S. economy has doubled since 1980, yet average wages have remained stagnant. During that time, however, the wealthiest Americans - the top 1% -- have seen their share of the pie skyrocket. They now earn 20% of the nation's overall income, compared with 10% three decades ago.

Medicare and Social Security benefits

American seniors have earned their Medicare and Social Security benefits by working hard for decades. But those benefits are at risk: Congress is considering harmful cuts to both Medicare and Social Security. Instead of cutting the benefits seniors have earned, Congress should cut wasteful spending, close tax loopholes and hold down health care costs.

contoling Health Costs

, “if controlling the cost of health care fails, what is Plan B?”

I would suggest that Plan B should be to examine how other advanced democracies have managed to provide health care coverage to all, while spending less of their gross domestic product on health care than we do in the United States.

No one should say that controlling health costs may be futile when so many countries have already done so through various combinations of competitive forces and government regulatory action. And while the United States leaves millions of people uninsured, these countries provide coverage for all.

Craig Ramsay

Columbus, Ohio, June 19

The writer is a professor of politics and government at Ohio Wesleyan University.

SINCE COMING UP SHORTLY MANDATORY FOR SENIORS

How to Get a Social Security Debit Card
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In the past, the Federal government mailed checks to recipients of
Social Security benefits, Social Security Supplemental income and
other types of Federal checks to the home address of the recipient.
Advances in the banking industry recently allowed those who received
checks to have the funds directly deposited in their accounts. The
Social Security has now introduced a debit card available to those
that don't have a bank account.
Difficulty: Moderately Easy
Instructions
1

Decide if you are eligible. The program is for those individuals who
receive government benefit checks from the Social Security
Administration but who don't have a bank account. Those that have bank
accounts have the option to elect direct deposit of their monthly
check into their bank accounts.

2


Determine if you are willing to accept the limitations of the program.
The debit card program is a special account set up for you to hold
your Social Security benefits. This account has a debit card issued to
the owner of the account that allows the owner to make withdrawals at
ATM machines and use the card at point of sale locations to purchase
all kinds of items. There are fees associated with the use of the
card. The owner can withdraw funds free once per month. Any further
withdrawals will be billed per transaction. The card may give you
quicker access to your money but will also cost you to use it more
than once a month.

3


Call the local Social Security office to request your card if you can
live with the limitations. Ask to sign up for the Benefit Security
Card program. They can process the request to have a card issued in
your name and sent to you. After the issuance of the card, direct
deposit will transfer your funds to the card's account at the bank
overseeing this program.


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Howard McGowan
MaldenSenior

DEDUCTION FOR SOCIAL SECURITY AND MEDICARE

WHERE DOES THE SAVINGS GO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
After you have discovered what each of the deductions stands for you can start to understand how they were deducted and why.FICA is one possible code for Social Security. It is really meant to encompass Social Security and Medicare, but most payrolls put it as the abbreviation for just the Social Security part.Both Medicare and Social Security together make up a 7.65 percent deduction in Gross pay. S.S. is 6.2 percent and Medicare is 1.45 percent.

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COLA TREND UPWARD MAY 2011

older adults have suffered financially by the lack of a COLA for the last two years. Prices for goods and services may not have gone up during that time, but out-of-pocket health care costs on which older adults spend much of their income continue to soar.

COLA TREND UPWARD MAY 2011

Accord­ing to the Mil­i­tary Offi­cers Asso­ci­a­tion of Amer­ica, the national infla­tion rate con­tin­ued trend­ing upward in May. This makes it nine straight months that the Con­sumer Price Index has ticked upward. This is impor­tant for mil­i­tary retirees, and those draw­ing VA ben­e­fits and Social Secu­rity, because the CPI is the indi­ca­tor used to deter­mine the annual cost-of-living-adjustment (COLA) and adjust­ments to VA Dis­abil­ity and Com­pen­sa­tion,Vets Pen­sion, and other VA rates for the fol­low­ing year.

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National Grid Site

Urban renewal plans are a tool afforded to municipalities by the state’s Department of Housing and Community Development. The plan, if approved by the state, would give the city (through the Malden Redevelopment Authority) greater control over the site and future development there. The plans require the property involved be blighted, substandard or otherwise underutilized

socia lsecurity

If people would go back to the progressive income-taxation that made this country great--i.e., your tax rate rises with your wealth rate--instead of the REGRESSIVE taxation we have now--i.e, the richer you are, the less you pay in income taxes. And since the poor, rightly, pay NO income taxes--guess who foots the bill for America? Right--the Middle Class.

I'm tired of paying rich people's way. Can we PLEASE go back to the way that it used to be, before Ronnie Dearest took over in 1980 and started slashing tax rates on the rich? And Ronnie Reagan was a MISER with the rich, compared to what George W. Bush did. He gave it ALL AWAY. But then he wasn't really a President. He did nothing for this country, nothing at all. Except kill a lot of our young people, and a lot of innocent Iraqis.

Medicare Cost Control

And here’s what you need to know: Medicare actually saves money — a lot of money — compared with relying on private insurance companies. And this in turn means that pushing people out of Medicare, in addition to depriving many Americans of needed care, would almost surely end up increasing total health care costs.

Computer access @ Malden Community Senior Center

By Guest Blogger Kareem Dale, Special Assistant to the President, The White House

At the start of his Administration, President Obama identified transparency, participation and collaboration as the principles of an open government, requiring that government information and data be accessible to all citizens. To ensure that persons with disabilities have equal access, government agencies must buy and use accessible technology.

MASS DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE RECEIPTS

So far this fiscal year, which ends June 30, Massachusetts has collected $676 million more than predicted.

MASS HEALTH CARE LAW

The poll results show that residents with incomes below $30,000 — the bracket that would probably make them eligible for state-subsidized care — were the most likely to say the law is helping to control the cost of their care.


The law expanded eligibility for subsidized coverage to thousands more residents, and state figures a year after the law went into effect showed that more than 200,000 residents were added to state-run coverage.


The poll results also showed that the highest income group, those whose income exceeds $75,000, were more likely than the lowest income group to say the law is hurting their health costs.


Kay Lazar can be reached at klazar@globe.com.

Medicaid

Medicaid is financed jointly by the federal government and the states. When a state wants to modify its Medicaid program, it must amend its state Medicaid plan. The changes are subject to federal review and approval.