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Alexandra Baig, CFP®
Jun 3, 20205 min read
Saying Something, Even When It's Not Enough
My son was about to have his first in-person, life parkour practice in months. There would be only 10 kids. They would work out in the...
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Alexandra Baig, CFP®
May 28, 20206 min read
Innovative Options for Housing, Community and Support
My son needs a lot of coaching to complete a project, assigned to him by someone else—say a teacher. But he has 150% focus and puts in...
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Alexandra Baig, CFP®
May 21, 20205 min read
How Medicaid Waivers Can Pay for Daily Life Supports
A listserve on which I participate featured a recent exchange among some parents of adults with intellectual and developmental...
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Alexandra Baig, CFP®
May 12, 20205 min read
ESG Investing: Can You Do Well While Doing Good?
“They say you cannot have your cake and eat it too…but ain’t that what ya supposed to do?” (Anonymous) A number of my clients with...
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Alexandra Baig, CFP®
May 1, 20205 min read
Expect the Unexpected
My family and I have started raising “backyard” chickens. We put a lot of thought into this project because the village has restrictions...
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Alexandra Baig, CFP®
Apr 23, 20201 min read
Why You Should Not Rely on Social Security Alone
The Social Security Administration’s (SSA) Board of Trustees has released its annual financial analysis report. The trust fund that...
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Alexandra Baig, CFP®
Apr 22, 20205 min read
How to Get Medicaid When You Think You Have Too Much Income
At first glance, you may think that you (if you have a disability) do not or your family member who has a disability, does not qualify...
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Alexandra Baig, CFP®
Apr 16, 20204 min read
Develop a Special Needs Plan That Can Weather Storms
Two days ago, I looked out my windows on snow and at a thermometer reading of 28°F. Less than two weeks ago, it was so summer-like hot,...
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Alexandra Baig, CFP®
Apr 16, 20201 min read
Economic Impact Payments will come to SSI recipients automatically
Advocates have succeeded. The Social Security Administration and the Treasury De- partment have have found a way to deliver the economic...
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Alexandra Baig, CFP®
Apr 10, 20201 min read
The Only Constant is Change
The only constant in life is change,” is attributed to Heraclitus (540-480 BCE). Having changed our ways of working, school, shopping and...
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Alexandra Baig, CFP®
Apr 8, 20204 min read
How Your Social Security Benefits and Your Tax Filing Status May Affect Your Economic Impact Payment
My son’s favorite subjects are math and science. His is preferred mode of learning is activity. His least-preferred mode of learning is...
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Alexandra Baig, CFP®
Apr 1, 20205 min read
Making Your Disability Case to Social Security
My son goes to a tiny Montessori school that offers schooling to the equivalent of pre-K through 12th grade and that has been doing an...
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Alexandra Baig, CFP®
Mar 25, 20205 min read
How to Manage Social Security While Social Distancing
When businesses and organizations started reducing hours and services in response to the COVID-19 situation, I like many of you started...
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Alexandra Baig, CFP®
Mar 6, 20205 min read
Let the IRS help you pay for post-secondary education
This past week, I came to talk to a group of high school students with disabilities about Social Security, Medicaid,and Medicare Work...
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Alexandra Baig, CFP®
Feb 24, 20205 min read
Good News and Bad News for Actors with Disabilities
My son occasionally prefaces disclosures with: “I’ve got some good news and some bad news. Which do you want first?” His dad and I...
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Alexandra Baig, CFP®
Feb 21, 20204 min read
Success brings challenges for people with disabilities
In initial episode of Netflix’s new series, AJ and the Queen, Rupaul’s character, Robert (stage name “Ruby Red”) becomes a victim of his...
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Alexandra Baig, CFP®
Feb 6, 20205 min read
How Social Security and the IRS define "dependent" differently
When I was a child, my grandfather taught me to play checkers. He liked the game and was quite good at it. For variety, he also taught me...
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Alexandra Baig, CFP®
Jan 30, 20205 min read
Early SSI eligibility can prevent Medicaid loss later
Does anyone play the game Jenga™ at home? Once the internet time has run out, it’s a favorite with my son, who enjoys a dexterity...
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Alexandra Baig, CFP®
Jan 15, 20205 min read
Here's How to get the most out of Social Security
In this classic Sesame Street skit, Bert’s favorite program, The Wonderful World of Pigeons, has been replaced by a large capital “H”...
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Alexandra Baig, CFP®
Dec 18, 20196 min read
It Does Matter What Kind of Medicaid You Have.
In Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, the heroine asks “What is in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as...
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