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Find, fix and prevent disability fraud
Regarding the June 28 Metro article “Judges tell Congress of pressure to award disability benefits”:The number of Social Security disability claims has increased greatly over the past decade, with 11 million people now receiving benefits averaging $13,500 per year. This calculates…
Hot Line: New scam scares seniors
“Please warn your people about this nasty scheme that’s taking personal identification information from senior citizens,” an email from a reader in another county began. “It’s so bad it’s almost unbelievable, but it happened to my (female relative) and I…
Save now to secure your future
We seem to find ourselves caught up in a Great American Conundrum. We have become a consumer-based economy which only prospers when Americans spend money on all the latest and greatest consumer stuff. But spending money on endless quantities of…
On (and on and on) the job
Despite reaching Social Security age, a generation is finding the new secret to a happy retirement: Don’t. Denise Dabney loves her job as lead planner in the Mayor’s Office of Jobs & Community Services for the City of Boston. It’s just that…
Welfare abusers are stealing from taxpayers
So many things in today’s society have been bastardized and twisted from its original intent. Included is welfare with its many forms and its many cheating abusers. The many welfare forms have now been so engrossed that it takes a higher…
Can you afford to retire? Ever?
“Take this job and shove it. I ain’t working here no more,” sang Johnny Paycheck in his great musical groan about working life.Lots of us hope to croon that tune to the boss one day, and we wonder just how…
What We Don’t Know About Immigration Bill’s Impact
“For example, most of the agency’s analyses of the economic effects of changes in tax and spending policies present ranges of estimated effects, and the agency’s projections of the finances of the Social Security system include ranges of outcomes …Read…
PROTECT YOURSELF FROM ELECTRONIC SOCIAL SECURITY FRAUD
The third Wednesday of every month is important to Alexandra Lane—it’s the day about $1,200 in Social Security retirement benefits is electronically deposited into her checking account. The 72-year-old Florida resident uses those funds—earned over 37 years of working as a…
How Social Security Works for Divorced Spouses
Social Security is an important part of the financial plans that Americans set up for their retirement years. But many don’t know how divorce affects the benefits they’re entitled to collect. In the following video, Fool contributor Dan Caplinger looks…
‘Human Chain Against Chained CPI’ set for July 2
Social Security is entirely self-funded and has nothing to do with the annual budget. So why, then, in the middle of its debates on an annual budget plan, is Congress trying to change the way Social Security payments are calculated? Some…