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If you want it, get it”: Woman sets disability aside, delivers Thanksgiving meals
Kellie Keller and her son, Michael, packed their last boxes of Thanksgiving meals on Monday, from turkeys to apple pies, to deliver to families in need. It all started with Keller posting a flyer and then a Nov. 8 message…
Working? Retiring? Options if reaching full retirement age in 2015
sococDo you reach your full retirement age (FRA) in 2015? Still working? Thinking about starting Social Security in 2015? What are some options to consider? When to start Social Security benefits is always a popular topic during retirement seminars. In…
Addressing challenges to rural health
Nearly one in five Americans, or 62 million people, live in rural and frontier communities. As the representative of one of the most rural Congressional districts in the country and as Chairman of the Congressional Rural Caucus, I am…
Medicare Changes Coming in 2015
Changes are coming to Medicare, the insurance plan for seniors and disabled, in 2015. This will affect the way physicians deliver care and the way patients receive care. Officials from the Pennsylvania Medical Society discussed some of the changes in…
Stop enabling disability fraud
The number of Americans receiving Social Security disability benefits has soared over the last decade, with serious fiscal consequences. Among the forces driving that trend are the Great Recession and the aging of the U.S. workforce. Though costly, those factors…
More Redistribution, Less Income
One reading of the midterm election wave is that voters have concluded that President Obama ’s answer to falling incomes and slow growth—higher taxes on the rich and more redistribution—is tapped out. These policies have been up and running for…
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…