AARP Services responds to all member concerns regarding our products and services. In the long-run, that approach does not protect the very people AARP claims to represent.FONT-SIZE: 11pt">We are in receipt of your complaint with the concerning your concerns with the AARP insurance benefits from.
Yet, given their power, they actually prevent any meaningful discussions and problem solving on how best to reform these soon-to-be insolvent programs. They purport to protect Social Security, Medicare and employment rights. If I’m interested in reading about keeping my brain healthy, I’ll Google it without tripping over ads for hearing aids and continuing care.ĪARP is one of the most powerful lobbying organizations in Washington, with nearly 38 million members. To find an AARP article about financial planning, you have to weed through the plethora of articles that are not yet relevant nor interesting. As Earl Nightingale once said, “We become what we think about.”ĪARP does provide helpful articles, but so does a Google search. AARP mailings and emails are like little invasive messages shaping your views and ideas about age. What you think about, choose to focus on, and your reaction to life’s ups and downs, determine how your brain works and how it’s mapped. Your mind is the one thing you have complete control over. When my third grade teacher passed away several years ago at 105, I have a feeling she, too, sidestepped the AARP membership. They just lived on one happy continuum, defining their own path and finding meaning along the way. Generations before, no one lived with these preconceived milestones. At 50 you get AARP, you retire at 60 or 65, Social Security kicks in at 65, and, by gosh, you enter RMD Land at age 70 1/2. Somehow showing my AARP card at the car rental counter would be in conflict with happy ageless vibes.Īn AARP membership is a constant reminder of the fixation we have on age-based milestones and what they represent. If our goal is rewirement (and not retirement), AARP just doesn’t fit, not even with the lure of discounts and benefits. If you’re over 50 and receiving those invitations or you’ve already signed up for AARP, here’s why you may want to get out your shredder and give membership the boot.ĪARP’s logo may have the tagline Real Possibilities, but AARP stands for: American Association of Retired Persons. And, for good measure, if they have your email address, you can unsubscribe from their online mailings. I discovered that I now needed to contact AARP customer service at 88 to remove my name from their mailing list. Eight years later, AARP removed that handy-dandy form and the mailings began once again. Next, I went to the AARP website and completed their privacy opt-out form to officially remove myself from their mailing list and the deluge of letters, emails, magazines and coupons that were looming in my future. I stormed into my home office, grabbed a big black marker and wrote on the envelope: Return To Sender.
The talons of this non-profit were reaching out to grab me into their world of senior discounts and articles about drugs for urinary incontinence and cremation versus burial. What? Isn’t that for older people? It was the eve of my 50th birthday and I was working full-time and raising two teenagers. There it was with bright red letters: AARP. I had just finished a long hike and collected our mail from the mailbox.
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