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What about about taxes on SS benefits?
Will your tax bill this year include taxes on your Social Security benefits? About 55 million people receive monthly Social Security payments, and some of them pay taxes on up to 85 percent of those benefits, depending on their financial…
7 Tips for Women to Have a More Secure Retirement
When it comes to saving for retirement, no one is feeling that secure—but that’s particularly true for women. “Retirement planning is hard for everyone, but it’s especially tough for women,” says David Littell, retirement income program director at The American College.…
Number of disabled federal workers hired reaches 32-year high
With her seeing-eye dog by her side, Denna Lambert works to help ensure that up-and-coming scientists and engineers with disabilities can see a future at NASA. Lambert, the disability program manager at Goddard Space Flight Center, said she is answering President…
WSP Warns Of ‘Identity Theft Investigation’ Scam
The Washington State Patrol wants you to know about a phone scam that is happening across the state. Troopers say the scam is requesting people to give their Social Security Number when they call an (813) Florida area code as part…
It’s a new fraud involving stolen Social Securty numbers and it’s claiming victims in Tampa Bay
The I-Team has found there are victims of Social Security theft in four different counties after obtaining police reports involving more than 20 people. Frank Thune, like the others in Hillsborough, Pasco, Polk and Pinellas Counties, discovered the theft of his…
SGR Deal Reached
Physicians will get a 0.5% pay increase each year for 5 years under a deal by a bipartisan team of House and Senate negotiators to repeal the sustainable growth rate (SGR) formula for physician payment under Medicare. The deal announced Thursday…
5 Steps to Save More for Retirement
Let’s face it, retirement saving is difficult. When we are young, retirement seems a long way off and many of us don’t handle delayed gratification very well. It’s so much easier to spend money on fun things now, and put off retirement…
Frustrating Medicare catch: Who’s an in-patient at the hospital and who’s under observation?
Ruth Felton, of Tiburon, California is a real fireball, even in her 90s. Her daughter, Sherry Brier, interviewed her while she was working out on a rowing machine at a gym where she had been going for several years When Brier asked…
SENIORS: Getting rich off Social Security? Not likely
That’s the implication of an op-ed in a recent Wall Street Journal, which says that figures on retiree incomes used by the Social Security Administration systematically miss as much as 60 percent of the income that seniors receive. That income,…
Changes in Certain Social Security Measures
Beginning in February 2014, Social Security will no longer provide benefit verification letters in local offices. You will still be able to get an instant letter online with a personal “my Social Security” account or you may call them toll-free…