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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 ...
What Happens to Your Disability Benefit When You Reach Full Retirement Age?

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 ...
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