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HR101: Social Security and Your Retirement
A secure, comfortable retirement is every person’s dream. Achieving this dream requires careful financial planning to anticipate your income and needs in retirement. If you are concerned about when to take Social Security benefits, how to maximize those benefits, or…
How to get Mom to prepare for retirement?
My mom expects to be able to live on Social Security and the $70,000 her company contributed to her 403(b) over the years. Friends have advised I have no legal obligations to provide for her. I certainly have social ones.…
Ask Young Americans: Social Security Does Not Promote Equality
To hear Grand Forks Herald opinion editor Tom Dennis tell it, Social Security is a program that promotes equality in America at a cost of just a little bit of economic inefficiency. “Most efforts to boost equality also erode efficiency by sapping people’s incentives…
DHS Secretary warns of Obamacare scams
Kitty Rhoades, Wisconsin Department of Health Services Secretary, warned of possible fraud and identity theft associated with Obamacare. She made the statement in a radio interview by WIBA Capitol Reporter John Colbert that aired Sunday morning on”Madison Forum” broadcast on Madison’s 1310 WIBA. Rhoades called…
Social Security talk at RiverWoods in Exeter
RiverWoods, a continuing care retirement community, will host a free presentation on Social Security on Thursday, Nov. 14 from 7 to 8:30 p.m.Herbert Salls, former manager of the Manchester Social Security district, will be the presenter. The future of Social Security…
What is the effect on my SSI benefits if I work?
In most cases, your return to work would reduce your benefit amount. Unlike Social Security disability, there is no “trial work period” for people who get SSI disability benefits. If your only income besides SSI is from your work, you…
Democrats should start entitlement reform
Democrats were given a political gift by the Tea Party-led federal government shutdown. Whether Tea Party loyalists accept it or not, the shutdown damaged the Republican Party. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell recalled an old Kentucky saying: “There is no education…
Fact-checkers Sputter And Flop Attempting To Explain How Social Security Works
A gaggle of fact-checkers recently attempted to bring clarity to the question of whether Social Security adds to the deficit. Much as they did during the campaign, the fact-checkers have instead confused what is in fact quite a simple issue. Social…
World Social Security Forum opens today
The World Social Security Forum (WSSF) Qatar 2013 will open today. The event will be attended by more than 1,000 social security professionals from around 120 countries to debate the future of social security systems worldwide. HE Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser…
Public-pension folks escape duty to subsidize the poor
I would like Ohio’s Democratic senator, Sherrod Brown, to know that, as a self-employed professional who already is paying 15 percent of my income in Social Security taxes, I was dismayed to read of his plan to remove the wage…