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The Social Security Fairness Act: A $200 Billion Boondoggle Dec. 25, 2024
Congress just passed a law that will give me (and millions of people like me) extra Social Security ... Read More
Lower Alcohol Wines Feb. 21, 2024
Any definition you can find of the word "wine" also includes the word "alcohol." This includes wines... Read More
Retirees With 'Disabled Adult Children' Feb. 07, 2024
This is going to be a column about DACs. And what's that? It's the abbreviation the Social Security ... Read More
How Your Retirement Benefit Is Calculated Jan. 31, 2024
Q. Even though I'm not on Social Security, I've been reading your column for years. A while back, I ... Read More
How to Build a Successful (and Lawsuit-proof) Benefit Corporation Mar. 29, 2022
"Some friends and I are thinking about setting up a benefit corporation or 'B corp' for our business... Read More
No Social Security in Prison Feb. 03, 2021
I was recently going through some old family photo albums with my grandkids. One album covered the r... Read More
What To Do When Social Security Reps Give You Misinformation Mar. 25, 2020
I really do not like writing columns that are critical of my former colleagues at the Social Securit... Read More
Did Your Child Return From College a Better Person? Jun. 18, 2019
When assessing America's or any of the Western world's universities — wondering whether you sh... Read More
SSA Representatives Challenge Me May. 22, 2019
Frequently, I hear from readers who take one of my columns into their local Social Security office t... Read More
The Official Social Security Maximizing Column May. 15, 2019
OK, it's official. I'm going to call this column, "How to maximize your Social Security benefits" an... Read More
Do We Really Have to Play With Our Kids? Mar. 21, 2019
When our kids were toddlers, my husband vowed he was going to write a book titled "How to Play With ... Read More
Social Security and Sophie's Choice Jan. 09, 2019
Today's column offers up a marital conundrum. Should a woman divorce the man she loves in order to c... Read More
Questions About Delayed Retirement Credits May. 16, 2018
All of today's questions involve the payment of what are known as "delayed retirement credits." This... Read More
More Questions From Divorced Women Nov. 15, 2017
Just two weeks ago, I wrote a column answering questions from divorced women. Obviously, I left a lo... Read More
Government Pension Offset Law Not About to Change May. 17, 2017
Over the past 17 years that I have been doing this column, I have written about 50 columns dealing w... Read More
The Folly of 'Buy American and Hire American' Jan. 26, 2017
Now that the campaign is over, Donald Trump is no longer willing to fake it. Last year, he insisted,... Read More
The Panderer in Chief and the 'War on the American Farmer' Nov. 03, 2016
Auditioning for the title of panderer in chief during this election cycle are two potential masters.... Read More
Questions from Teachers and Railroaders Jun. 22, 2016
Q: I read your recent column explaining the offset I will suffer because I get a small teacher's pen... Read More
Working Seniors May Get Social Security Increase Dec. 02, 2015
I get lots of questions from working senior citizens who wonder if the Social Security payroll taxes... Read More
Debates Give Advantage to GOP Oct. 16, 2015
In 2008, underdog candidate Barack Obama gained prestige by defeating a heavily favored front-runner... Read More
