Posts Tagged ‘medicare benefits’
When I was growing up I spent most of the summer in some state of wetness. My town had a pool that was easy for us to walk or ride our bikes to and it was the center of summer social activity. I took swimming lessons, I swam on the swim team, I became a lifeguard and then helped to teach kids to swim.
When I was a freshman in college the perfect opportunity came along – I could get a phys ed credit by earning my certification as a water safety instructor. I took the course, got my certification and then worked for the Red Cross or the YMCA as a swimming instructor. It was a great college job, and now that I look back on it, it really was the single college class that was ever directly responsible for me getting a job.
Now that the east coast has finally started to warm up, the sun is shining, birds are chirping…allow me to bring some gloom and doom to 
your day. It looks like the cost of obtaining / renewing a passport is going to go up. The State Department is proposing a fee hike that would raise the cost of applying for a passport from $100 to $135, and renewal cost would increase to $110 from the current $75.
The reason? The State Department says that the costs of increased security and anti-fraud and terrorism measures aren’t being covered by the current fees.