IIROC: Resume, Forest & Marine Investments Ltd. and Uldaman Capital Corp. (Marketwire)
March 31st, 2009
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA–(Marketwire - March 31, 2009) - The following issue(s) will resume trading on the TSXV: /T/ Company: Forest & Marine Investments Ltd. TSXV Symbol: FME Resumption Time: April 1, 2009 9:30AM EDT Company: Uldaman Capital Corp. TSXV Symbol: ULD.P Resumption Time: April 1, 2009 9:30AM EDT /T/
7 tips for buying long-term care insurance (San Francisco Chronicle)
March 31st, 2009
One option for addressing the high costs of long-term care is to buy an insurance policy. Policies can cover the cost of hiring someone to help the recipient with in-home cleaning, cooking, bathing and dressing. Coverage may also include assisted living in a…
Decent state pensions are a right, not charity (Socialist Worker)
March 31st, 2009
Around a sixth of Britain’s population – some 11 million people – are pensioners. Yet the basic state pension is just 15 percent of the average wage, down from 25 percent when pensions were first paid in 1909.
7 tips for buying long-term care insurance (AP via Yahoo! News)
March 31st, 2009
One option for addressing the high costs of long-term care is to buy an insurance policy. Policies can cover the cost of hiring someone to help the recipient with in-home cleaning, cooking, bathing and dressing.
Pa. suit targets mortgage disability insurance (AP via Yahoo! Finance)
March 31st, 2009
A Pennsylvania couple is pursuing a class action suit against a company that provided disability insurance for credit union loans, saying the insurer wrongly stopped disability coverage 10 years after the loan began, not 10 years after the man who took out the loan lost his job due to arthritis.
Canada rejects Chrysler, GM plans, but offers loans (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
March 31st, 2009
Canada said on Monday that current plans set out by the Canadian branches of General Motors Corp and Chrysler LLC do not go far enough to make them viable, but it offered C$4 billion ($3.2 billion) in bridge loans to tide the companies over while they restructure.
Canada re-extends bridge loans to Chrysler, GM (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
March 31st, 2009
Canada is re-extending up to C$4 billion in bridge loans to the domestic units of General Motors Corp and Chrysler LLC to keep them in operation until they present new restructuring plans, officials said on Monday.
Local government Katrina loans could be forgiven (San Francisco Chronicle)
March 31st, 2009
The federal government is proposing to forgive disaster loans made to coastal communities that have faced budget problems in the years after hurricanes Katrina and Rita. Rules proposed Monday would let local governments avoid repaying some or all of their…
State Jobs Give Ex-Lawmakers Big Pensions (NBC Connecticut)
March 31st, 2009
Some ex-lawmakers who left their political careers and took other state jobs are collecting bigger pensions than state employees who have worked for decades, according to a report in Sunday’s Hartford…
NSSA to start paying forex pensions next month (The Herald)
March 31st, 2009
New Ziana. The National Social Security Authority (NSSA) will start paying pensions in foreign currency with effect from next month, an official said on Friday.