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AARP CO: Let's Talk Social Security and Medicare

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Monday, September 9, 2013   

FRUITA, Colo. - This month older Coloradans from Fruita to Fort Collins will hear first-hand about the pressing issues facing Medicare and Social Security. AARP Colorado representatives are touring the state to educate people about proposed changes to the programs and what they can do to protect the benefits they've paid into them for while in the work force.

According to Kelli Fritts, associate state director for advocacy at AARP Colorado, the state tour is a great way to catch up on what's at stake.

"There's no reason not to," she said. "They're free and they're informative and you know we do our very best to answer a lot of questions and have a good time when we're out visiting folks in their communities."

The tour will begin Wednesday, September 11, with a stop in Fruita. It will continue the following week with stops in Pueblo, Aurora and Fort Collins.

Greg Glischinski of Centennial is concerned about cuts to Medicare, and said lawmakers need to realize cuts will only cost more at the end of the day.

"What happens in the long run is that people end up in the emergency care," he warned. "Emergency care ends up costing the taxpayer way more money than if we were able to tackle some of these things and really look at them hard."

Glischinski wants Washington to find ways to cut down on Medicare fraud and waste, instead of cutting programs.

"If they go in and start cutting and slashing in the name of the budget fix, there's so many other areas they could go and fix this in."

Another issue that will be discussed on the State Tour is the so-called Chained CPI, which is a new way of calculating the Social Security cost-of-living adjustment for benefits. The new approach assumes that if prices rise there are lower-cost options for consumers, but groups such as AARP contend that's not viable for older Americans with fixed incomes and fixed costs such as utility bills and medicines.

More information on that AARP tour is at AARP.org.




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