seniors
Ask Rusty – My Friend is 65; shouldn’t she be exempt from Medicare payroll taxes?
Dear Rusty: My girlfriend is 65 and she just enrolled in Medicare. She is still working full time as a nurse, but they are still deducting Medicare taxes from her paycheck. I thought as soon as you started Medicare, that…
Data Breaches and Social Security
A Complex Online World It’s a complex electronic world we live in today, with nearly all organizations transitioning rapidly to online services. We are often encouraged to do our banking, manage our investments, renew our licenses, and pay our monthly…
Sounding the Alarm: Social Security in Financial Trouble
In somewhat of a “Johnny-come-lately” mayday alarm, this MorningStar article by Jessica Hall reports that the latest from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) is that Social Security’s reserves may be fully depleted in about the year 2032 – an issue…
Speeding up SS Disability Decisions
It’s certainly no secret that applying for Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) benefits is often an effort which takes a long time for results. Unless the disability is included on SSA’s “Compassionate Allowance List” (CAL), it isn’t unusual for an…
Changes to Social Security’s operating processes are coming soon
In somewhat of an “under the radar” internal announcement, the Social Security is updating its operating procedures to improve processing times and balance staff workload. This, to adjust to the agency’s new reality – a loss of about 7,000 employees…
The Social Security Conundrum
It should be no secret to anyone who stays abreast of the news these days, Social Security – the nation’s primary program to avoid poverty in our senior years – will soon be facing a financial crisis! According to the…
Social Security sponsoring annual “Slam the Scam” day event
March 5, 2026 is an important date for those of us who worry about our Social Security benefits being stolen by scammers and other nefarious individuals. Fact is, those seeking to defraud senior Americans are rapidly proliferating and developing more…
What is the Social Security Administration?
That’s not meant as a trite question – the Social Security Administration (SSA) actually does much more than you may think! The SSA handles monthly payments to well over 53 million retirees, spouses, and survivors. But did you know that…
Working while on SS Disability
About 12 million American’s rely on Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) benefits to sustain them during their period of disability. Those SSDI benefits are typically small, but did you know that it is possible to supplement your SSDI benefits by…
SSA Milestone: Over 100 million online accounts
In this inexorably digital world, the Social Security Administration has, for years, been encouraging current and future beneficiaries to use SSA’s online portal for accessing information and completing transactions. Online access does, indeed, provide a faster and more convenient way…