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Social Security Q&A: What Will My Wife’s Early Spousal Benefit Be?
Question: I started collecting Social Security at age 65. I was born in 1944. My wife has never worked and is 60 years old. I earn $2,170 per month. If my wife starts taking spousal ...
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Social Security Q&A: Are Spousal Benefits Half My Reduced Retirement Benefit?
Question: I started benefits at 62. When my wife files for benefits at full retirement age, will she get half of what I get now or what I would have gotten at full retirement?
Answer: ...
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Social Security Q&A: Does the Earnings Test Only End After 70?
Laurence Kotlikoff is a professor of economics at Boston University who has been answering questions and writing columns about Social Security each week for the past two years on PBS ...
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Social Security Q&A: How Will Marriage Affect My Disability Benefit?
Laurence Kotlikoff is a professor of economics at Boston University who has been answering questions and writing columns about Social Security each week for the past two years on PBS ...
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Social Security Administration Is Now Offering Replacement Tax Form Online
SSA-1099 is a tax form that the Social Security Administration (SSA) mails to everyone receiving Social Security benefits.
People typically receive the form in January; but since tax ...
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A History of the Social Security COLA
Social Security recipients will receive a 1.7 percent cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) in 2015.
The COLA is designed to protect benefits against inflation – but that protection hasn’t ...
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How Accurate Is Your Estimated Social Security Benefit?
Every soon-to-be retiree is curious about what their Social Security benefit might be when they retire – as they should be, because their expected benefit will shape their saving ...
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Where Do Your Social Security Tax Dollars Go?
The vast majority of working Americans pay a portion of their paycheck toward the Social Security Administration. But where does that money actually go?
Motley Fool breaks down the ...
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Government Report: Social Security Judges Approve Nearly All Disability Claims, Even if Questionable; “Large Scale Reform” Needed
A new report from the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, released Thursday, claims that many Social Security Administration (SSA) judges rubber stamp nearly every ...
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Lawmakers: Social Security Administration’s Response to Physician-Assisted Fraud Is “Woefully Insufficient”
Two top-ranking Republican lawmakers are drawing attention to a recent report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) that details how the Social Security Administration’s ...