- WASHINGTON -- The senior citizens lobby AARP on Monday will kick off a national Social Security and Medicare listening tour called You've Earned a Say and We're Listening. (Huffington Post)
- The Social Security Administration (SSA) began issuing Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) benefits electronically to new recipients last year, as the U.S. Treasury Department phases out paper checks. (Houston Chronicle)
- Three Texas counties have a model for reform that proves personal retirement accounts are more than just a conservative pipe dream. (Spectator.org)
- Newswise — Social Security's cost of living adjustments (COLA) are designed to protect against the erosion of retiree purchasing power when prices go up, as measured by the Consumer Price Index (CPI). (Newswise)
- We understand retirees can start taking retirement benefits at age 62. We realize well get a bigger monthly check if we wait a few years more until our normal retirement age to tap benefits. (The Christian Science Monitor)
- Ebert Gordon Beeman, the real one, applied for a Social Security number at age 14. (Erie Times-News)
- Yesterday, I was forwarded the following email, with a note asking me if I planned to comment on it: Hey you, here comes Chaka Fatta. Hopefully this will not pass, but if it does, we will have a 1% on all credit card charges. (Forbes)
- A northwestern Pennsylvania county councilman has pleaded guilty to charges that he used a fake name to obtain a fraudulent Social Security number which he used to apply for jobs and obtain four credit cards and a car loan. (Burlington County Times)
- Erie County Councilman Ebert Beeman pleaded guilty this afternoon in federal court to four felony counts of Social Security fraud. Beeman, of Waterford, could lose his seat on council as a result of his guilty plea to the felonies. (Erie Times-News)
- Alicia Munnell, the director of the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College, is a weekly contributor to "Encore. Monthly Social Security benefits claimed at age 62, rather than 65, are reduced by about 20 percent. (Smart Money)
Friday, March 16, 2012
Social security
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