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Life Expectancy and Social Security
Many news reports say that COVID-19 had an impact on average life expectancy, from which we have not fully recovered. According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), life expectancy has recovered somewhat since the pandemic’s end, but it’s still…
Retiring Soon? Here’s What You Should Know
We can always count on Suze Orman to offer sound financial advice, and she certainly delivers in this GoBankingRates article. Suze tees up an excellent perspective on what to consider as you contemplate your retirement future and where and how…
Early Claimers Beware – Social Security Limits How Much You Can Earn
As a Social Security Advisor, I can’t even count the people who have contacted me in panic because they received an Overpayment Notice from Social Security demanding repayment of thousands of dollars in overpaid benefits. The cause? Because they claimed…
Donald Trump and Social Security
There was a time when one would commend a politician for having keen political instincts by avoiding talk of reforming Social Security. But given that insolvency is a decade or less away and deep benefit cuts loom, those who follow…
The Social Security Rule That is Costing Seniors Billions
Kailey Hagen explains the chatter about what is changing for Social Security in 2024. Essentially it is the typical yearly changes tied to inflation that affect benefits, the wage base, and how much can be earned through working and collecting.…
Where does the GOP field stand on Social Security?
Savannah Kuchar of USA Today reviews the GOP presidential field and where they stand now and in the past on Social Security. One candidate called the program a Ponzi Scheme, one that should be privatized, and favored a retirement age…
Nikki Haley is unafraid to talk Social Security & Medicare reform
Fredreka Schouten of CNN explains that GOP presidential candidate Nikki Haley is seemingly alone in acknowledging we have federal entitlement programs we simply cannot afford. Haley is open to increasing the Social Security retirement age for today’s younger workers and…
Op-ed: Raising Social Security Retirement Age Can Help Ease Insolvency issue
Brenton Smith, a policy adviser to the Heartland Institute, explains there is no one solution to fix Social Security’s ills. The program will be unable to pay full benefits in about a decade. Raising the retirement age should be a…
AMAC: Social Security’s Very Real Problems Explained– in Plain English
This FAQ page was written by Jeff Szymanski, who works in political communications for the Association of Mature American Citizens (AMAC). He previously taught high school economics for 15 years and is a frequent writer on Social Security issues. The…
What does age 82.5 have to do with Social Security?
If people know anything about Social Security it is that you can claim it age 62, though all may not realize that comes with a permanent reduction. Fewer know that full retirement age is 67 (for those born 1960 or…