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Is it too late to boost your benefits?
You started receiving your Social Security retirement benefits and are not thrilled with the amount. Are you aware you have options to boost your benefits? Maurie Backman discusses two options available to increase your Social Security benefits even after you…
How to contact Social Security
With all the recent changes in Social Security, people are unaware of the options that are open to them to contact Social Security. Below, you will find the click to the most recent blog by the Social Security Administration on…
Are you Single? Thinking about when to start your benefits? Here are some things to think about.
As a single person, your Social Security benefit is based solely on your lifetime earnings, and no help from a spouse. It is very important that you determine how heavily dependent you will be on your Social Security benefits. For…
May 5 is Approaching Rapidly…Here’s an Update on the Student Loan Outstanding Debt Collection Process
For more than 5 million student loan borrowers in default, and another 4 million late in their payments, the May 5 resumption of forced collections is likely to cause a massive financial upheaval. Newsweek’s Aliss Higham, in a post today…
Retirement Saving: There’s a Hidden 401(k) Feature You May Not be Aware of
Saving for retirement is one of the most frequently discussed topics in financial planning media these days, with the common assertion that nearly everyone needs to do more to prepare for this life phase. CNBC Personal Finance Reporter Kate Dore,…
An Update on President Trump’s Social Security Clean-up Progress
There’s a lot going on in Social Security these days (that’s a bit of an understatement, perhaps), but most of the news focuses on the DOGE efforts to root out the waste and fraud in this massive senior benefit program.…
Taxation of Social Security Benefits…Some Background on the issue
In 1983, as part of the Social Security Amendments passed to avert a solvency crisis, Congress required all retirees to pay income taxes on 50% of their benefits if their incomes reached a minimum threshold.[1] The 1983 decision, however, did…
Data breaches continue to be common news. You can take steps to protect yourself!
In 2024, the United States reported 3,158 data compromise cases. Meanwhile, over 1.35 billion individuals were affected globally in the same year by data compromises, including data breaches, leakage, and exposure. While these are three distinct events, they share a commonality. In…
SSA Press Release: 100 Days of Progress
Much has been written in the past few months, most of it portraying the Social Security Administration in a negative light during the first 100 days of the Trump Presidency. However, despite the negative media coverage, a closer examination reveals…
New Changes Going on at the SSA to Protect You
The Trump Administration is hard at work reducing waste, fraud, and abuse within the Social Security Administration (SSA). They are working on improving payment accuracy, usually caused by underreporting of earnings by people working and receiving early retirement benefits. SSA…