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1. What is the Part D Medicare doughnut hole?
(Health/Healthquest)

BY IRENE C. CARD and BETSY CHANDLER NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM YOUR HEALTH INSURANCE If you are enrolled in the Medicare Prescription Drug Plan, known as Part D Medicare, you know what the doughnut ...

2. Schools teaching kids to play outside
(Life/Style)

... of developing heart disease, type 2 diabetes, certain cancers, and stroke. Since 95 percent of young people are enrolled in schools, many experts believe innovative school programs can go a long way ...

3. N.J. school choice legislation moving to governor's desk
(N.J./State)

... attend their district of choice, which would use criteria outlined in the bill's provisions to accept or deny students. Students would be required to be enrolled in grades pre-school through 12th, and ...

4. health care gang
(Comments/Unsorted comments)

... If their pay was reduced by 80 percent it would cover health insurance for 500,000 families enrolled in a government insurance program at $10,000 per year per family. Also, if health care was nationalized ...

5. Assembly Democrats Monday to attempt to override Christie veto of senior citizen tax relief
(N.J./State)

... a new $310 deductible to 105,000 senior and disabled citizens in the Pharmaceutical Assistance to the Aged and Disabled prescription drug program and 23,000 senior citizens enrolled in the Senior Gold ...

6. Best place to raise a child in N.J.
(Life/Style)

... in the percent of 3- and 4- year-old children enrolled in state-approved pre-kindergarten and an 18th placing in students receiving free or reduced-price lunch who also get breakfast, according to the ...

7. Head Start program: Investigation finds fraud and abuse
(U.S./Nation)

... families and their children. Unfortunately, as with most government programs, investigators found widespread corruption and waste in Head Start. Federal law allows up to 10 percent of enrolled families ...

8. Stuck
(Comments/Unsorted comments)

My daughter who was enrolled in the Academy of Engineering and Technology and in the top 5 students was planning on taking advantage of the STARS program. If it is suspended this year, she is unable to ...

9. Christie eliminates prescription cost hikes for 164,000 seniors and disabled
(Health/Healthquest)

... seniors and those New Jerseyans living with disabilities. Of that number, approximately 140,000 are enrolled in PAAD and another 23,000 in the Senior Gold program. PAAD and Senior Gold recipients are ...

10. Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski challenges NCAA to do something for 'student-athletes'
(Sports/Professional)

... v. Nemeth. A Colorado Supreme Court determined that a full-time enrolled student and football player was an employee injured in the course of his employment and was therefore entitled to workers' compensation ...

11. N.J. school choice legislation approved by Senate committee
(N.J./State)

... use criteria outlined in the bill's provisions to accept or deny students. Students would be required to be enrolled in grades preschool through 12th, and would have had to attend the sending school district ...

12. N.J. 'millionaire's tax' restored by committees in Trenton
(N.J./State)

... Assistance to the Aged and Disabled prescription drug program and 23,000 senior citizens enrolled in the Senior Gold prescription drug program would be eliminated. Christie's plan to more than double ...

13. Surcharge on 16K millionaires will help N.J. senior citizens through true shared sacrifice
(Opinion/Commentary)

... plan to charge a new $310 deductible to 105,000 senior and disabled citizens in the Pharmaceutical Assistance to the Aged and Disabled prescription drug program and 23,000 senior citizens enrolled in the ...

14. Bills seeking N.J. "millionaire's tax,'' and dedicating $637 million for seniors, disabled scheduled for approval
(N.J./State)

... who left school to serve in the military. It will also consider legislation (A-2200) to allow a child whose parent is called into active service to remain enrolled in their school district. The Assembly ...

15. Moriarty says Christie’s government reform bill will not be held hostage for millionaire’s tax
(N.J./State)

... $310 deductible to 105,000 senior and disabled citizens in the Pharmaceutical Assistance to the Aged and Disabled prescription drug program and 23,000 senior citizens enrolled in the Senior Gold prescription ...

16. N.J. citizens need to see property tax reforms now
(Opinion/Commentary)

... drug program and 23,000 senior citizens enrolled in the Senior Gold prescription drug program from increased medication co-payments. Shortly after that revelation, Governor Christie announced the ...

17. Democrats unveil legislation to restore income tax surcharge on 16,000 New Jerseyans who earn over $1 million annually
(Money/Economy)

...  The proposed $310 deductible to 105,000 senior and disabled citizens in the Pharmaceutical Assistance to the Aged and Disabled prescription drug program and 23,000 senior citizens enrolled in the Senior ...

18. Christie’s prescription plan hurts N.J. seniors
(Opinion/Commentary)

... their prescriptions in January. The budget proposal says some seniors enrolled in the Pharmaceutical Assistance to the Aged and Disabled (PAAD) program and all persons in the Senior Gold program must ...

19. N.J. Democrats will not approve increased prescription costs for seniors in Christie budget
(Health/Healthquest)

... for brand name drugs — the co-pay currently is $7. The $310 deductible would also impact the 23,000 senior citizens enrolled in the state's Senior Gold prescription drug program. The legislators said ...

20. N.J. fines casinos $23,258 for allowing gambling addict, 117 minors to gamble
(N.J./State)

... expires must complete an application for removal. There currently are 988 people in the self-exclusion program, including 38 who enrolled in the program, removed themselves and signed up a second time. ...