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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
Is It Meant to Be? Navigating Red Flags With an Old Flame Oct. 24, 2024
Dear Annie: When I was 17 years old, I met a lovely guy here in Canada. We met through a mutual acqu... Read More
Don't Let America's Biggest Money Managers Play Politics with Your Pension May. 21, 2024
Are you paying attention to what the money managers who you've entrusted with your lifetime savings ... Read More
The Things I Used To Do, Lord, I Won't Do No More Mar. 29, 2024
My father spent the last 13 years of his work life at a sporting goods company, where he was an assi... Read More
Government Took Care of Me Sep. 08, 2023
Taxation is theft, no? Government causes more problems than it solves, right? You pay taxes, and you... Read More
Schumer Lets Federal Pension Money Go to Communist China Aug. 09, 2023
Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines sat before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligenc... Read More
Social Security Rumors Don't Pass the "Look, Sound and Quack Test!" Mar. 29, 2023
I'm sure you've heard that old saying that goes something like this: "If it looks like a duck, walks... Read More
Honey, Joe Biden Just Shrunk Our Pension Mar. 28, 2023
President Joe Biden recently issued his first veto since taking office on Jan. 20, 2021. Biden reje... Read More
Most People Can't Get the Maximum Benefit Mar. 22, 2023
If you read a recent USA Today article, you would have seen a story with this intriguing headline: "... Read More
Biden's 401(k) Heist Dec. 07, 2022
President Joe Biden's going after 401(k) retirement accounts, risking millions of workers' comfortab... Read More
Your Right to File a Claim for Benefits Dec. 07, 2022
Here is the bottom-line message of this column: If there is any doubt or question in your mind about... Read More
Why Should You Believe Me? Aug. 03, 2022
I frequently hear from readers who tell me about Social Security-related advice they got from a frie... Read More
Nothing That Special About Age 70 Jul. 20, 2022
I wrote a recent column in which I pointed out that waiting until 70 to start your Social Security, ... Read More
Women Married to Jerks Jul. 13, 2022
If my emails are any indication, there sure are a lot of rotten husbands out there! That's why I kee... Read More
Reach in the Mailbag Jun. 29, 2022
I usually like to write columns centered on one particular Social Security topic. But every once in ... Read More
Happy Birthday to Me Jun. 22, 2022
I'm submitting this column to the newspapers on my birthday. I was born June 22, 1949. That makes me... Read More
Sometimes Waiting Until 70 Doesn't Make Sense Jun. 08, 2022
Older adults across the country are bombarded with invitations to attend seminars that allegedly wil... Read More
Earnings After Retirement May or May Not Increase Your Social Security Check Jun. 01, 2022
Q: I am 73 and still working part time. I took my Social Security at age 66. I have never seen an in... Read More
Explaining WEP and GPO May. 25, 2022
Let me start out by saying that I hope the editors of the various publications that print my column ... Read More
Social Security for Divorced Women May. 11, 2022
My wife and I and a group of our neighbors were chatting the other day, and it dawned on us that the... Read More
