Q: My ex-wife passed away recently. I'm 61 and still working. Would I qualify for any Social Security benefits based on her account? A: If your late ex-spouse was entitled to a Social Security retirement ...
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Is Someone Using Your Medicare Number To Steal Drugs?
By Mary Johnson, editor You get them whenever you visit a doctor, or fill a prescription — Medicare's "explanation of benefits" forms. Often perplexing, many people never review them, let alone, try to figure them ou ...
How Social Security Calculates Benefits Based On Illegal Work
President Obama and House leadership are discussing support of a more "limited approach" to immigration reform. Under discussion is a plan to grant illegal immigrants limited legal status by providing the right to work ...
Again? COLAs May Face Another Round Of Cuts In Debt Limit Battle
Debt cutters may be back with more demands to "chain" cost-of-living adjustments (COLAs), along with plans that would make seniors pay higher Medicare costs. The government's new 2014 federal budget agreement cut COLAs ...
Will 2015 Be Year Of The Lowest COLA Ever Paid?
Alexandria, VA: More than 62.5 million seniors, as well as recipients of other federal benefits, may be at high risk of not receiving any cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) next year, according to a new forecast from The S ...
Social Security & Medicare Questions: Retroactive Benefits
Q: Can you explain the rules about working after starting Social Security, and retroactive benefits? My older brother received 6 months in retroactive benefits when he filed for benefits after turning 66. I turn 66, m ...
Ask The Advisor: Totalization Agreement with Mexico
What is the status of the Totalization Agreement With Mexico? Q: What happened with the U.S. Social Security Totalization Agreement with Mexico? Has TSCL learned anything from those Freedom of Information Act reques ...
Benefit Bulletin: February 2014
Before Obamacare "Glitch," There Was The Notch Glitch Obamacare is not the first government program in which major implementation glitches had disastrous consequences for large numbers of beneficiaries. In 1977 chang ...
Is Growth in Social Security Disability Due to Aging Baby Boomers or Scam?
The Social Security Disability Trust Fund (SSDI) is rapidly closing in on becoming the first of the two Social Security Trust Funds to become fully insolvent. The disability trust fund, which is separate from the one th ...
Congress Picks Up Debate Over Benefit Cuts
After leaving major decisions on Social Security and Medicare cuts to the New Year, Members of Congress are returning to pick up their debate over entitlements and taxes. With the looming insolvency of the Social Securi ...
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