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It’s Bonus Time: 4 Things You Must Do Before December 31
Getting a bonus is just about the best news you can get at work. Traditionally, bonuses represented a relatively small part of employees’ pay, but recently, the trend has been toward bonuses making up a larger portion of the overall…
How To Plan For Retirement With A Pension
As retirement approaches, the importance of such tools as pension plans, savings accounts and Social Security sets in. Whether you have two months or 20 years before your final day at the office, devising a solid plan for how you…
Motley Fool: Pundits pandering your wealth away
“My job is to write the exact same thing between 50 and 100 times a year in such a way that neither my editors nor my readers will ever think I am repeating myself,” Wall Street Journal columnist Jason Zweig…
What Social Security benefits will spouse get?
A spouse receives one-half of the retired worker’s full benefit if the spouse retires at full retirement age. If the spouse begins collecting benefits before full retirement age, we reduce those benefits by a percentage based on how much earlier…
Fraud fighters offer tips to thwart ever-smarter thieves
Credit card and identity thieves are getting so believable in their scams that they fooled even Robert Moraca. Briefly. Moraca is a former police detective, an expert on credit card fraud, and vice president for loss prevention for the National Association…
Big data, big money collide with privacy
On June 12, Technet, a trade group that lobbies on almost any privacy legislation that affects Silicon Valley interests, spent $1,938 to cover food and drinks at DeVere’s Irish Pub. That’s pocket change in today’s politics. Assemblyman Ian Calderon, a Los…
Serving veterans on Veterans Day and always
Every day, but particularly on Veterans Day, Social Security salutes those who have put their lives on the line for our freedom. Members of the United States armed forces receive expedited processing of their Social Security disability applications. The expedited process…
The Perpetual Wait For Social Security Compensation
As of October, 2014 Social Security is backlogged by 990,400 pending cases (read the report from the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) here). Тhіs pool consists of tentative – and frustrated – Americans that is larger than the backlogged Veterans…
A Critique of social security
When compared to defense spending, immigration, or health care, social security is hardly considered a pressing issue. But if you look at it from a monetary standpoint, social security should be a top priority, at 906 billion dollars; it takes…
Retirement Security Eroding for Middle-class Americans
The latest National Retirement Risk Index, published by Boston College’s Center for Retirement Research paints a harsh reality for middle class America. About half of today’s current working population will not be financially able to maintain its current standards of…