Older Adults 65+ Eligible for the Vaccine starting Monday 1/25/21

Wisconsin Department of Health Services | January 19, 2021

Today the Wisconsin Department of Health Services (DHS) announced that adults over the age of 65 will be eligible for the COVID-19 vaccine beginning January 25. Currently, frontline health care workers, residents in long-term care facilities (nursing homes and assisted living facilities), and police and fire personnel are eligible. There are approximately 700,000 Wisconsinites who are 65 and older and Wisconsin currently receives around 70,000 first-dose vaccines per week from the federal government. It will take time to vaccinate this population in Wisconsin…

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Second Round of Economic Impact Payments

IRS | December 29, 2020

The Internal Revenue Service and the Treasury Department will begin delivering a second round of Economic Impact Payments as part of the Coronavirus Response and Relief Supplemental Appropriations Act of 2021 to millions of Americans who received the first round of payments earlier this year.

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The Food and Drug Administration, FDA, has authorized two vaccines from pharmaceutical manufacturers, these vaccines are now being distributed to federal- and state-approved locations. For most people living in the U.S., states and territories will make the final decisions on who will get the vaccines and when. States are also working on their own specific vaccination plans.

You can check with Wisconsin Department for Health Services for the latest information regarding the vaccine: https://www.dhs.wisconsin.gov/covid-19/vaccine-about.htm.
While we enter the distribution phase of the vaccine, there’s no doubt scammers are scheming…

Congress has just passed another bill to help the people whose finances are taking a beating from the pandemic. The timing and details are still TBA, but scams are expected to be on the rise…

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