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Heres the step-by-step guidance you need if youre dealing with a long-term or permanent disability. This comprehensive and compassionate book covers both Social Security Disability Insurance and Supplemental Security Income. Newly updated, it shows you how to prove a disability and explains how your age, education and work experience affect your chances. Parents will find special information about benefits available to children with a disability....
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"How many retirees or those nearing retirement know about such Social Security options as file-and-suspend (apply for benefits and then don't take them)? Or start-stop-start (start benefits, stop them, then re-start them)? ... [This book] covers the most frequent benefit scenarios faced by married retired couples, by divorced retirees, by widows and widowers, among others. It explains what to do if you're a retired parent of dependent children, disabled,...
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[2015]
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Explains how the program works and how your choices could impact your benefits. Included are: helpful hints for enrolling in Social Security -- Explanations of benefits depending on different factors -- Advice on working without negatively affecting your Social Security benefits -- a look at the future of Social Security and possible implications.
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[2012]
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This book explores the potential benefits of a government-independent, democratized Social Security system to support dependents suffering from the reduction of other government benefits. It provides essential ammunition against the theft of our golden years by pundits, "free" marketeers, and bureaucrats. Social Security, not for nothing do politicians call it the "third rail of American politics, touch it, and you die." Yet a powerful, well-funded...
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[2022]
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This Handbook provides information on topics such as how Social Security programs are administered, who is and isn't covered under the insurance programs, how claims are processed, what benefits are included, and how to obtain more information about Social Security policies.
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[c2014]
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Social Insecurity tells the story of a massive and international retirement robberyá substantial transfer of wealth from everyday workers to Wall Street financiers via tremendously costly hidden fees. Russell traces what amounts to a perfect swindle from its ideological origins at Milton Friedmanś infamous Chicago School, to its implementation in Chile under Pinochetś dictatorship, to its adoption in America through Reaganomics. Enraging yet hopeful,...
14) Official Social Security Administration Answers to 100 Frequently Asked Questions About Retirement
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2017
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For most Americans, Social Security is their largest financial asset, worth hundreds of thousands of dollars and indexed against increases in the cost of living. It is also an incredibly complicated program, with 2,728 core rules and thousands of codicils. As a result, Americans lose billions of dollars a year in unclaimed benefits. This money that we have earned and are entitled to, that is lost forever. If you are thinking about retirement, you'll...
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[2021]
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This Handbook provides information on topics such as how Social Security programs are administered, who is and isn't covered under the insurance programs, how claims are processed, what benefits are included, and how to obtain more information about Social Security policies.
17) Social security works!: why social security isn't going broke and how expanding it will help us all
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[2015]
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"A growing chorus of prominent voices in Congress and elsewhere are calling for the expansion of our Social Security system-people who know that Social Security will not "go broke" and does not add a penny to the national debt. Social Security Works! will amplify these voices and offer a powerful antidote to the three-decade-long, billionaire-funded campaign to make us believe that this vital institution is destined to collapse. It isn't. From the...
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[2017]
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How your Social Security retirement benefits, spousal benefits, and widow/widower benefits are calculated. How your benefits are affected if you have a government pension or if you continue working while claiming Social Security. How to decide when is the best age for you (and your spouse, if you're married) to claim Social Security in order to get the most out of your benefits. Whether or not it makes sense to take Social Security early in order...
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[2020]
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What's the biggest retirement mistake you can make? Not taking full advantage of your Social Security benefits. And it's a mistake that almost every retiree makes. Luckily, America's #1 retirement expert, Bob Carlson, editor of the popular Retirement Watch newsletter and website, is here to help with an easy-to-follow guide to getting the most out of your Social Security benefits.