Social Security
The New York Times, March 3rd, 2010Earlier today Casey B. Mulligan wrote
about how the entry of more women into the work force has helped
sustain the solvency of Social Security, which has been otherwise
stressed by the size of the retiring baby
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Credit Cards.com, February 24th, 2010Your Social Security number is one of the keys to your financial
health. It's a unique indentifier lenders use to assess your
creditworthiness. It's also exactly what a would-be thief needs to
apply for a credit
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Yahoo Finance - January 5, 2010If you have several different retirement accounts, such as a 401(k) at work and individual plans on your own, keeping up with the Internal Revenue Service rules on each is a challenge, especially if you are 50 or older and
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CNN, December 7th, 2009Debra Guenterberg doesn't have to go to a horror movie to get
spooked. She says she's been living a nightmare for the past 13 years. The
Wisconsin woman says she's been stalked by two phantoms. Two men stole
her name and her
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Kipplinger, November 22nd, 2009It sounds like a cruel joke. After a lifetime in the workforce, you call it quits at 62 to claim
Social Security benefits and begin a long and satisfying retirement.
Then, the worst economic calamity since the Great
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Yahoo News, November 27th, 2009These strategies will help you make the most of your benefits.There
is no perfect time to apply for Social Security. You can claim early
and take a smaller monthly payment for a longer period of time. Or you
can claim
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The Wall Street Journal, November 13th, 2009
Is it true that as a 64-year-old divorcee, who was married
for 13 years and hasn't remarried, I would be eligible to collect half
of my ex-husband's Social Security benefit? My ex-husband is 67 and has
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Marketwatch, September 17th, 2009Back in the good old days, before the crisis of 2008-09, many experts
suggested that all you needed to do was withdraw 4% per year, adjusted
for inflation, from your nest egg. That strategy, experts said, was a
near
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CNN Money, September 17th, 2009You've probably spent a lot of time sweating over your 401(k) and IRA.
But have you given much thought to the way Social Security will fit
into your retirement plans?You should. In fact, Social Security provides 50% of
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The Wall Street Journal, August 27th, 2009AARP and other self-styled senior lobbies are raising a ruckus over
the news that in 2010, for the first time in 35 years, Social Security
recipients won't be getting a cost of living increase in their monthly
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Forbes, August 18th, 2009The U.S. Department of Justice
is indicting a Miami man for working with two co-conspirators in Russia
to steal 130 million credit and debit card numbers between 2006 and
2008. Breaking into the network of a payment systems
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The News & Observer, August 5th, 2009
Q: I'm thinking about getting
disability protection from a private company. If I become disabled and
have a private policy, would it reduce my Social Security disability
benefit?A: No. Your eligibility
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San Francisco Examiner, August 2nd, 2009So you find yourself disabled and unable to work. What to do? Is it
just as simple as applying for federal social security disability, and
begin receiving your earned disability checks from the government? Not
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US News & World Report, July 27th, 2009The Boomerater™ Report, our weekly collaboration with online baby boomer resource Boomerater, this week discusses various tips to help you maximize your income from Social Security. Here is the question from
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Yahoo News, May 13th, 2009The financial health of the government's two biggest benefit
programs may have slipped over the past year, reflecting the deep
recession that has already bitten into other areas of the budget.The
trustees for Social Security
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