Planning for the future of your child or other dependent with special needs can be a complicated process. It’s important, however, to plan for their care and continued quality of life when you are no longer around. MetDESK, MetLife’s Division of Estate Planning for Special Kids, has developed a calculator to help families plan for lifetime care and quality of life. Click on the link below.
2010 autism insurance reform bill (HB 1091)
March 30th, 2010
The 2010 autism insurance reform bill (HB 1091) will require insurance companies to provide coverage of evidence-based, medically necessary autism therapies, such as applied behavior analysis (ABA) therapy and speech generating devices.
Please take action today. For more information on this bill, you can visit www.autismvotes.org/maryland.
Thank you.
Samona Spickler
Year-End Tax Planning
March 13th, 2010
Here is some information for year-end tax planning. For these topics or others about which you have questions, feel free to contact me any time at all. Your questions are important to me.
Individual/Joint Filers:
- You may contribute to your IRA or Roth IRA for 2008 as long as you do it by April 15, 2009. If your income is too high to make a contribution to your IRA or Roth IRA, you may contribute to a non-deductible IRA. Your contribution may be as much as $5,000 plus an additional $1,000 if you’re Read the rest of this entry »
We Have a Problem
March 12th, 2010
The House has passed HR4247 – The Keeping All Students Safe Act – to prevent harmful restraint and seclusion in schools. Please contact your Senators and ask them to support the Senate version of this bill.
http://www.nationalautismassociation.org/?gclid=CPGo9533s6ACFdY65QodpUQfVQ
Kill or not to Kill
March 11th, 2010
Last night I read this article posted on Parenting – Autism Blog .. HOW SAD!
Angela MacDonald-Timpone Posted Kill or not to Kill on February 24, 2010
When socialite and millionaire Gigi Jordan feed her eight-year-old son with autism a lethal dose Ambien and Xanax, the autism community once again failed. Last night sitting on my bed, phone to my ear chatting with a New York reporter about the latest mother-homicide related to autism and the reporter’s words sent a chill down my spine, “…this is such an unusually, sad case.”
Not really. Days after police were barging into Jordan’s $2,000 Read the rest of this entry »
