Friday, March 16, 2012

Social security

  • 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)

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