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Culture  |  Sarah Ulmer  • 
April 13, 2022

MS Insurance Department receives accreditation from NAIC

Mississippi is joined by Alabama and North Carolina in receiving the accreditation.  The National Association of Insurance Commissioners’ (NAIC) held their spring meeting in Kansas City, Missouri at the beginning of April. The meeting allows for the Financial Regulation Standards and Accreditation (F) Committee to vote to accredit state insurance departments. The Mississippi Insurance Department (MID)…
Culture  |  Guest Editorial  • 
April 13, 2022

SALTER: Entitlement program financial instability plus inflation equals an approaching disaster

By: Sid Salter As the midterm elections approach, why isn’t their more interest in the approaching U.S. Social Security and Medicare policy abyss? In 2020, Social Security provided retirement, disability and survivor benefits to some 416,500 Mississippians with monthly benefits averaging $1,420 per month or $17,161 annually. That means that Social Security injects $7.147 billion…