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Coordinating Social Security Benefits with Other Retirement Assets
Social Security provides retirement income you can’t outlive. And, in addition to your own benefit, your spouse may be eligible to receive benefits based on your earnings record in the form of spousal benefits and survivor’s benefits. So, it’s easy…
Join the Human Chain for Retirement Security
Politicians continue to press for the Chained CPI Benefit cut as a way to reduce the deficit. But the truth is Social Security has not contributed one dime to the deficit. The chained CPI is a cold, calculated benefit cut…
Gomez and Markey begin final push to Tuesday
Kicking off a final wave of campaign events, the candidates for Tuesday’s US Senate special election tried to excite voters this morning, with Democrat Edward J. Markey making his pitch to senior citizens and Republican Gabriel E. Gomez greeting voters…
Social Security: It’s not all gloom and doom
It happens every year, just like the State of the Union address. The board of trustees of the Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance and Federal Disability Insurance Trust Funds sends an update on how things are going to the president…
Social Security Wage Base Projected at $115,500 for 2014
The Social Security Administration (SSA) Office of the Chief Actuary (OCA) has projected that the Social Security wage base will increase from $113,700 for 2013 to $115,500 for 2014. Actual annual increases to the wage base are announced in October of…
Rand Paul Introduces National ID Card Amendment To The Senate’s Immigration Reform Bill
As was reported by The Global Dispatch last month, the “Gang of Eight” drafted bill, 800 pages of the bipartisan legislation, includes language mandating the creation of the innocuously-named “photo tool,” a massive federal database administered by the Department of Homeland Security and containing names, ages, Social Security numbers and photographs of everyone…
The Chamber of Commerce’s war on Social Security
There are two things you need to know about the federal government’s current budget situation. First, if you’re concerned with deficits and federal debt, things are getting better. The combination of spending cuts, tax increases, and modest economic growth has significantly…
Seniors may get an even smaller Social Security raise than this year’s
South Floridians on Social Security may have to get used to another low cost of living raise. Retirees may get an even smaller raise in their Social Security checks in 2014 than they got this year. So far, the Consumer Price Index…
Low interest rates pose risk to those who don’t protect retirement income
Americans who do not protect their retirement income are at risk of having their retirement prospects eroded by prolonged periods of low interest rates, according to a new paper by Prudential Financial, Inc. (NYSE:PRU). The most recent update to The National Retirement…
Liberals should lead entitlement reform
If liberals succeed in blocking any serious entitlement reform during the Obama presidency, as seems increasingly likely, they will have handed conservatives a gift. One number explains why: 2.7 percent. That is the share of the national economy that, according to Congressional Budget…