Are You Eligible To Claim The IRS Saver’s Credit?
(NAPSI)—Here’s good news, for a change, from the IRS: It offers an incentive to lower your tax bill when you save for retirement. With pandemic-related employment disruptions last year, more taxpayers may be eligible to claim the Saver’s Credit but may not even know this tax credit exists. Also referred to as the Retirement Savings Contributions Credit, the Saver’s Credit can reduce federal income taxes for eligible taxpayers who save for retirement through a qualified retirement plan, such as a 401(k) or an Individual Retirement Account (IRA).
The 22nd Annual Transamerica Retirement Survey finds that fewer than half (48 percent) of workers are aware of the Saver’s Credit.
“People who are saving for retirement may be able to claim the Saver’s Credit and reduce their federal taxes,” says Catherine Collinson, CEO and president of nonprofit Transamerica Institute and its Center for Retirement Studies. “Perhaps people are confusing the tax credit with the tax-advantage treatment of retirement accounts. The idea of a double tax benefit may sound too good to be true but both are available to retirement savers.” Continue reading
by We Can Do This COVID-19
Public Education Campaign
(NAPSI)—Running was Rob Smith’s passion. He ran every day, ate healthy foods, and had good sleep habits. Because of his healthy lifestyle, Smith believed that it was very unlikely COVID-19 would have a serious effect on his health. In September 2020, at the age of 22, Smith contracted the virus, and his life changed forever.
“I used to run 5 or 6 miles a day. Now, when I walk up a flight of stairs, I’m gasping for air,” said Smith, who misses his daily exercise. “It feels like my brain is clouded, and I can’t think straight. It’s surreal.”
Smith is not alone. Though many healthy young people who contract COVID have mild symptoms and recover quickly, others experience a wide range of new, returning or ongoing health problems that can persist for months. This condition is referred to as long COVID. As scientists work to learn more about long COVID, many mysteries remain. Continue reading
(NAPSI)—Being a hero and helping repair the world may be easier than many people realize. How? Become a blood stem cell or marrow donor, volunteer or a supporter.
The Problem
Every three minutes, someone in the United States is diagnosed with a blood cancer such as leukemia, lymphoma and myeloma. The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society estimates that 186,400 people will experience this frightening news just this year.
While a bone marrow or blood stem cell transplant can serve as a cure for leukemia and other blood cancers, only 30 percent of patients have a matching donor in their families. The remaining 70 percent must hope that a compatible stranger can be found through the global registry.
Seeking Solutions
For the past 30 years, one organization has been singularly passionate about engaging the public to get everyone involved in curing blood cancer. Gift of Life Marrow Registry, a nonprofit based in Boca Raton, Florida, works globally to find matching bone marrow and blood stem cell donors for patients battling nearly 100 diseases, including blood cancer, immune disorders and sickle cell. Continue reading
About the Artist:
Cara Van Leuven‘s lifelong obsession with horses is probably like yours — it’s in the blood; it’s an impossible attraction and addiction. At the age of nine, Cara began taking riding lessons and knew, due to the likes of Touch of Class, Big Ben, and Abdullah, she wanted to jump. Throughout middle school and high school, Cara showed in hunters, eventually finding true love in the jumper ring.
Life with horses seemingly ended when Cara left her hometown of Ft. Wayne, Indiana to study photojournalism at Western Kentucky University. Although she did remarkably well with a camera and earned internships every summer working as a photographer at newspapers throughout the country, the loss of horses was marked.
Solace needed to be found so Cara turned to hip hop. Yes, you read that right. When she wasn’t break-dancing, she wrote graffiti in her black book and occasionally on dumpsters and walls. Her love of art wasn’t found so much in art museums, but rather on the side of trains.
After graduating, she spent time in Duluth, Minnesota, and London before settling in Albuquerque, New Mexico. She worked quite a bit in design but could not find comfort in the corporate environment. Eventually, a transfer to St. Louis, Missouri reshaped her lifestyle thanks to the 2008 recession. Continue reading
Flags & Flag poles is a local store in business for over 18 years and is run by the Marshall family George, Bill & Linda. George’s father Bill a vet and George’s mother linda keep’s busy with sales thanks to the strong support of local customers in the area. We urge you to buy local from family-owned businesses.
The Marshall family have been able to stay busy through the past year with sales and installing flag poles in the local area. Having a retail store in lady lake also helps so people can walk in and see the supplies the store offer’s and purchase local on site. They also offer discounts on most products when you pay by cash or check. When you buy local you help support a small business like the Marshall locally family owned and operated store.
The store hours are 8 am – 4 pm Monday – Thursday. the Marshall’s can be reached at 352-751-1876
** 211 S. Hwy 441, Lady Lake, 32159 **
White House slams Florida republicans. The controversy started when the GOP rejected legislation and the name it “Don’t Say Gay!” The goal is to protect the children who need protection from legislation that would show them in a negative light. They would be subject to Bullying.
The new “F” word is FREEDOM to many of our leaders are infringing on FREEDOM. The word is not being considered as they make a move toward Martial Law.
Our own Republican Dennis Baxely sponsored the proposal. Baxely told law makers it would not forbid spontaneous discussion but would bar districts from incorporating LGBTQ topics into the curriculum.
Baxely said some discussions are best left to parents! Baxely said when you enter sexual discussions with children your entering the “Danger Zone”!
DeSantis stated you’ve seen incidence in which kids are encouraged to be doing stuff with like gender ideology and I think the parents really do need to be involved in that discussion. LGBTQ
By Tony Powell
Is Putin stealing Ukraine!
Do we care?
Apparently Former President Donald Trump thinks that Putin’s invasion of Ukraine is the ‘savvy’ act of a ‘genius’
As we all know, Putin has thousands of military units on the border and has already started an invasion.
Most other world leaders think it’s an act of war.
What’s disappointing in the media coverage is that they portray Putin’s actions as somehow, unusual or disruptive – while as the same time refusing to acknowledge that taking over other peoples property; their homes, their land their country, is the way that the world works, and the way that this world of ours has always worked. Continue reading
Dear Friends,
Thank you to all of you that have taken the time to call, write and e-mail our office over the past few weeks as we continue fighting to protect faith, family, freedom, opportunity and life itself at our state capitol.
We have reached the halfway mark of the 2022 Legislative Session and we are very excited about the good work being done on behalf of the people of the state of Florida. Will we get everything we want; just the way we want it? No. This process is a conversation that happens between 22 million people in our state who come from many different backgrounds and many different life experiences. Sometimes it can be messy, but a better system of government has yet to be found. Many have tried and many have failed. We should be very grateful that we live in constitutional republic where the rights of individuals are honored and protected. Continue reading
The CEP recently completed its second 5-Year Strategic Plan, Moving Forward- Phase II, on 31 December 2021. This aggressive planned followed up on the original Moving Forward plan and outlined a series of strategic initiatives to advance the CEP’s goal of “being the catalyst for a prosperous community.”
The following is descriptions of several of the initiatives and programs outlined in the plan which were then implemented by the CEP:
- Equine Engagement Initiative presented by Pyranha – just prior to the launch of this plan the CEP commissioned an economic impact analysis of the Marion County equine industry. We knew were Horse Capital of the World® but we did not know what that meant from an economic standpoint. The analysis revealed the equine industry contributes more than $2.6 Billion a year to the local economy. As a result, the CEP created the Equine Engagement Initiative to connect the horse community to the business community and vice versa.
- NEXTWorks –is the CEP’s talent development initiative. This initiative seeks to partner the business community with our education providers. The goal is to develop and align training programs around skills needed by businesses in the Ocala Metro and that align with higher education providers such as the College of Central Florida (CF), Marion Technical College (MTC), local governments, the CEP, and CareerSource CLM. The CEP works closely with Marion County Public Schools, CF, and MTC on these initiatives with the recognition that while not every student needs to go to university, every student needs skills and career pathways that allow them to add skills throughout their lifetime.
- Live Life Here presented by Professional Realty Ocala – as quickly as our community is growing, we cannot build all of the workforce we need today locally. We need to recruit talented individuals to discover why the Ocala Metro is a great place to live, work, and play. The Live Life Here initiative seeks to do that through targeted digital marketing.
- Impact presented by Ausley Construction – is based on the belief that one of the best ways to impact communities is through entrepreneurship. Helping residents create their own jobs and wealth generators will have the most impact long-term and aligns with the CEP mission of creating a prosperous community. This initiative seeks to impact the communities of West Ocala, Marion Oaks, and Silver Springs Shores through onsite business assistance, a Certified Diverse Small Business Enterprise program, multi-language training events, and a supplier matching program.
- Sphere presented by IHG – is the CEP’s effort around building a robust healthcare economy comprised not only of our growing and expanding hospital network but with enhanced R&D, healthcare manufacturing, healthcare logistics, biopharma, entrepreneurship, and workforce development.
Going into another month I have to repeat what I wrote over a year ago. While I was researching something on the internet and I came across this.
It claimed that Wuhan Lab research on COVID was being funded through a religious group by the Obama administration by Fauci. I guess they call that masking or Ghosting. The research and development was on SAR-CoV1. The lab had a bad record of having accidents, so Obama told Fauci to stop funding the research. Now this was a long time ago during Obama’s term. It also claimed, Fauci found private funding for his research through allegedly Hillary Clinton and several other which was indicated to be high tech guys in the internet business. Now the Investigation today has not mentioned Hillary or the other’s yet, so maybe that was a wrong projection. This was all in 2002, it jump to humans from bats and was named SARS. That was the first pandemic. This is a the first development of the COVID. Over 8,000 people were infected and things started happening. Continue reading
