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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…
Eliminate Eligibility for Starting Social Security Disability Benefits at Age 62 or Later
Under current law, people are eligible for Social Security Disability Insurance (DI) until they reach the full retirement age, which is currently 66 and is scheduled to increase gradually beginning in 2017 for those born in 1955 until it reaches…
Ten Arguments against Obama’s Executive Action
Robert Charles American Thinker For immediate Release November 19, 2014 Contact:John Grimaldi(917) 846-8485jpgrimaldi@verizon.net Mr. Charles is a former assistant secretary of state under Colin Powell, former counsel to a congressional oversight committee, a former litigator, and a teacher of government…
Fixing Social Security
For quite a while now we’ve been reading the reports from the Social Security Administration’s reviews of the status of the trust fund – where the prediction is that we’ll end up in the year 2033 with only enough money…
Social Security: Rewards For Waiting
Nearly half of the people eligible for Social Security claim it at 62, which for those reaching eligibility age today cuts their benefits by 25 percent compared to someone who waits a few extra years to claim. Read more… Notice:…