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Retirement Calculator from AARP

"The AARP Retirement Calculator can provide you with a personalized snapshot of what your financial future might look like. Simply answer a few questions about your household status, salary and retirement savings, such as an IRA or 401(k).... The tool will help you determine the amount of money you'll need to retire when -- and how -- you want."

AARP Sues EEOC to Block New ADA Wellness Regs: What's an Employer to Do?

"Before you think the AARP is taking the employer's side here, and is complaining that the rules are unduly burdensome to employers, think again. According to AARP, the EEOC's 30 percent threshold is too high. In fact, so high that employee participation in these programs is not 'voluntary.' According to AARP, the EEOC wellness rules 'enable employers to pressure employees to divulge their own confidential health information and the confidential genetic information of their spouses as part of an employee "wellness" program.' As such, the AARP argues the EEOC rules also violate federal laws governing protection of confidential medical information." [AARP v. EEOC, No. 16-02113 (D.D.C., complaint filed Oct. 24, 2016)]

AARP Lobbies Against Medicare Changes That Could Hurt Its Bottom Line

"AARP, the highly influential lobby for older Americans, is fiercely opposing any Medicare or Social Security cuts and emphasizes that it is fighting for the good of its members. But the proposals for changing Medicare also could affect AARP's bottom line.... The group gets a 4.95 percent royalty each time someone buys Medigap insurance with the AARP brand."

House Ways and Means Committee Members Have Questions for AARP on Role in Health Care Bill

"Health Subcommittee Chairman Wally Herger (R-CA) and Ways and Means Member Dave Reichert (R-WA) [have asked] AARP's Chief Executive Officer Barry Rand [for] additional information from the organization related to AARP's role in the formulation and advancement of the Democrats' health care law. The call for information comes as a separate Congressional investigation uncovered internal AARP communications with the White House, which contradict responses AARP provided to Ways and Means Committee members during a lengthy Congressional investigation."

AARP Health Law Guide

This guide will help you find resources tailored to your needs, whether it's about Medicare, health insurance coverage for you or your family, or public programs that may work for you. [The guide is also available in Spanish.]

AARP Asks U.S. Supreme Court to Uphold Competition in Prescription Drug Market

"AARP's brief in Caraco v. Novo Nordisk, filed by attorneys with AARP Foundation Litigation .... parses the language of the [Hatch-Waxman Act and its 2003 amendment], reviews the debates leading up to its enactment, details the skyrocketing escalation of pharmaceutical drug costs and the devastating effect these costs have on public health, and reviews the 'gamesmanship' brand name manufacturers use to protect their exclusivity."

Selected Research Papers Considered at AARP-EBRI May 15 Pension Conference (PDF)

8-page document with links to summaries of research papers deemed to be important to participants at the AARP-EBRI May 15, 2006 pension conference entitled 'The Employment-Based Pension System: Evolution or Revolution?'. The conference's agenda is online at http://www.aarp.org/money/pension_conf_agenda_page.html.

AARP Reply Brief in Case Involving the ADEA and ERISA (PDF)

52 pages. Excerpt: [The target page] is the reply brief filed by AARP in the [EOEC] case. AARP argues again, among other things, against [The ERISA Industry Committee's] position relating to Brand X and submits to the court a recent case decided in the U. S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, State of New York v. Environmental Protection Agency. (No. 03-1380; March 17, 2006.)

AARP Appeals to the Third Circuit on AARP v. EEOC (PDF)

3 pages. Excerpt: Notice is given that plaintiffs AARP, Jack W. MacMillan, Frank H. Smith, Jr., Frank A. Wheeler, Fred Dochat, Gerald Fowler and M. Elaine Clay hereby appeal to the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit from all orders contained in the September 27, 2005, Memorandum and Order of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. Dated: October 12, 2005

AARP Lawyers Join Suit Against African Methodist Episcopal Church Over Retirement Funds

"AARP Foundation attorneys will act as co-counsel in a class-action lawsuit alleging the African Methodist Episcopal Church mishandled nearly $90 million in retirement funds ... The AME stopped making payments to retired ministers covered by its pension plan earlier this year after a 2021 audit found that two-thirds of the denomination's retirement funds had been lost in risky investments in a venture capital company and a real estate deal." [Alexander v. Harris, No. 22-00707 (D. Md. complaint filed Mar. 22, 2022)]