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- Recalculating Social Security Benefits
- Social Security and Military Retirement Pay
- "I had 8 children and would have been on welfare."
- 'Social Security for Dummies'
- 1.7 Percent: The 2013 COLA
- 10 Steps to Get You Ready for Retirement
- 10 Things To Know About Social Security
- 4 Tips for Boosting Your Social Security Benefits
- 66 County Road Trip Nears the End
- 7 Myths of Social Security
- A Beneficiary's Death
- A Critical Look at Equity Investment in the 1994-1996 Advisory Council on Social Security Recommendations
- A Landmark Program Turns 75
- A Question of Trust
- A Social Security COLA May Be in Your Future
- AARP Bulletin Survey on Social Security
- AARP Celebrates 75th Anniversary of Social Security and Fights to Protect It
- AARP Colorado Wishes Social Security a Happy 75th Anniversary
- AARP Decries Reductions in State SSI Payments to the Most Vulnerable
- AARP Florida Listens, Helps You Learn About Social Security
- AARP Helps Connecticut Residents Have Their Say
- AARP Iowa Social Security Survey
- AARP Launches Protect Seniors Campaign to Keep Medicare Strong
- AARP Listens to Coloradans On Social Security
- AARP Members and Private Social Security Accounts
- AARP Members: Speak Out Against Simpson, for Social Security
- AARP National GROW Accounts Poll: September 8, 2005
- AARP New Hampshire Social Security Survey: May 27, 2005
- AARP Ohio Congressional District 14 Social Security Survey: April 14, 2005
- AARP Ohio State Social Security Survey: April 18 2005
- AARP Oregon Social Security Survey: June 3, 2005
- AARP Pledges to Protect Social Security
- AARP: Don’t Target Social Security For Cuts
- AARP: Social Security Not in Crisis
- AARP’s Social Security Benefits Calculator
- AARP’s Social Security Mailbox
- Administrative Costs for Social Security Private Accounts
- Adopting a Chained CPI Targets the Oldest, Poorest Americans
- After my mother died, I found uncashed Social Security checks that had been issued to her. Can we cash them?
- Alabama State President Ray Warren Talks About Social Security
- Alaskans' Retirement Should Not Be Treated Like a Political Game
- All Aboard the Protect Social Security and Medicare Express
- All About Social Security Credits
- Another Social Security Booster
- Applying for a Deceased Spouse's Social Security Benefit
- Are Benefits Counted as Income in Bankruptcy?
- Are My Benefits Forever Frozen?
- Are My Social Security Benefits Taxable?
- Are Social Security Numbers Reused?
- Are Social Security benefits taxable regardless of age?
- Are some kinds of employees not covered by Social Security?
- Are survivor benefits decreased if claimed early?
- Are survivor benefits reduced for a Postal Service employee's survivor?
- Are there any countries to which the United States will not send Social Security payments?
- Arizona’s 65 Plus Population is Expanding
- As long as I am 62 or older and have claimed Social Security, can my spouse claim spouse benefits at any time?
- Asian Americans and Social Security
- Ask the Experts: Paying Back Social Security
- Assuming I begin taking my retirement benefit at age 62 instead of age 66, at what point is the breakeven year or age? I've been told it's approximately 13 years. Is that true?
- At What Age Are a Widow's Benefits Paid?
- At what age should I begin taking Social Security retirement benefits?
- Avoiding the Earnings Penalty
- BU Glossary of Social Security Terms
- BU New SSA Website Targets Women's Issues
- BU Private Social Security Accounts: A Raw Deal For Women?
- BU Where We Stand:Social Security
- Bank Can Collect Fees From Social Security Deposits
- Banks Garnishees Social Security Payments to Collect Fees
- Benefits at 70, Medicare at 65
- Best Hospitals in Town
- Boomers Rush to Social Security
- Boost Your Social Security Income
- Budget Cuts Impact Social Security Office Hours, Services
- C-The Importance of Social Security and Medicare
- COLA Opens Door to Cons
- COLA's Vanishing Act
- Californians Fret Over Future of Medicare & Social Security
- Can Businesses Demand My Social Security Number?
- Can College Students Receive Survivor Benefits?
- Can I Apply for Benefits Online?
- Can I Buy a Higher Benefit?
- Can I Cash Old Benefits Checks?
- Can I Claim Benefits Based on My Third Husband's Record?
- Can I Collect Social Security and Unemployment at the Same Time?
- Can I Collect Unemployment and Social Security?
- Can I Draw Social Security Benefits From My Second Husband?
- Can I Get My Benefits Abroad?
- Can I Get My Ex's Benefit?
- Can I Get Supplemental Security Income (SSI) Benefits If I'm Not a U.S. Citizen?
- Can I Get a Social Security Card If I'm Not a U.S. Citizen?
- Can I Receive Benefits From Two Countries?
- Can I Work Overseas, Collect in U.S.?
- Can I change my mind within the 3 month period after I sign up?
- Can I collect both my own retirement benefit when I turn 62 and my widower's benefit?
- Can I collect my survivor benefit at 60 and delay claiming my own benefit until my full retirement age, even if my benefit would be larger?
- Can I collect two full benefits at once?
- Can I collect unemployment benefits and Social Security at the same time?
- Can I contribute more to my 401(k) to get around the earnings limit for those who work and receive Social Security benefits between 62 and full retirement age?
- Can I direct deposit my Social Security check?
- Can I earn money while collecting Social Security Disability?
- Can I receive a civil service pension and Social Security at the same time?
- Can I receive my Social Security checks if I live abroad in a foreign country, outside the United States?
- Can I receive my spouse benefit at 62, even if my own benefit would be higher? I would like to hold off taking my own benefit so that it will be higher when I do take it.
- Can I transfer work credits from a foreign country's Social Security agency to my work record in the U.S. if I worked abroad?
- Can I work and collect retirement benefits at the same time?
- Can My Child Get Social Security?
- Can My Wife Claim Half My Benefit?
- Can My Wife Claim and Suspend Benefits?
- Can My Wife Get a Check if I Don’t?
- Can Social Security benefits be seized by creditors?
- Can Social Security tell me whether I have any pension benefits due me from former employers?
- Can States Furlough Workers Whose Salaries and Expenses Are Paid With Federal Dollars?
- Can Survivors Get Benefits?
- Can Taxes Be Withheld From My Benefits?
- Can You Buy Into Social Security?
- Can Your Social Security Payments Be Garnished?
- Can a non-U.S. citizen receive benefits on a former spouse's record?
- Can children who have collected survivor benefits during their grade school years continue to receive the money while in college?
- Can my Social Security benefit be garnished for unpaid student loans?
- Can my children get Social Security benefits based on my work record?
- Can rental income cause a reduction in a current Social Security benefit?
- Candidates Tackle an Unlikely Target—Remaking Social Security
- Celebrating Social Security and Medicare
- Celebrating Social Security, Keeping it Strong and Cutting the Deficit
- Certner Speaks Out on Social Security
- Changing Social Security—Will Young People Go for It?
- Children and Social Security
- Chile's Experience with the Privatization of Social Security
- Choosing When to Take Social Security Benefits
- Claim Early Benefit — or Not?
- Collecting Benefits While Working
- Collecting Social Security on Dead Spouse’s Record
- Collecting Spousal Benefits
- Collecting on Your Ex's Social Security Benefit
- Comparing Current Social Security Reform Proposals
- Consumers Question E-Payment Proposal
- Could Individual Accounts Lead to Government Interference in the Stock Market?
- Creditors use loophole to seize protected benefits
- Deceased and Inmates Get Millions of Dollars in Stimulus Payments
- Despite Myths, Social Security Remains Strong for Next 25 Years
- Diane Braunstein, a Champion for Social Security Disability Applicants
- Disability - The Best Options for Your Security
- Disability and Tapping a 401(k) Early
- Distribution Rules for 401(k) and 403(b)
- Divorce and Social Security Benefits
- Do I Lose in Taxes If I Collect Benefits and Work?
- Do I have to pay federal taxes on my Social Security benefits?
- Do I have to pay taxes on my Social Security income?
- Do I need to notify Social Security if I am receiving benefits and earn more than the annual earnings limit?
- Do Service Providers Really Need My Social Security Number?
- Do Social Security benefits count as income in a Chapter 13 bankruptcy, or are they protected?
- Do Social Security numbers get reassigned once a person dies?
- Do Veterans Get Special Credit for Social Security?
- Do You Have a Computer and 15 Minutes?
- Do You Have to Sign Up for Social Security and Medicare Together?
- Do Young Children Get Benefits?
- Do members of Congress pay into Social Security?
- Do my Social Security contributions go into a personal retirement account for me and earn interest?
- Do survivor benefits expire if you do not claim them at the first age of eligibility?
- Do taxation rules on Social Security benefits change with age?
- Do the proceeds from the sale of stock count toward the earnings limit for those who work and receive Social Security benefits between 62 and full retirement age?
- Do you have to be a U.S. citizen in order to qualify for Social Security retirement benefits?
- Do-It-Yourself Social Security Fix
- Does Social Security provide any benefits for children who have disabilities?
- Does a Widow Lose Benefits If She Remarries?
- Does a widow(er) lose benefits if they remarry?
- Does my military pension affect my Social Security benefits?
- Does my spouse have to file for Social Security benefits in order for me to receive a spouse benefit?
- Does the Windfall Elimination Provision affect me if I contributed to Social Security for over 35 years and then took a government job not covered by Social Security at age 57?
- Does the earnings limit increase as you get closer to full retirement age?
- Does what my spouse make affect the earnings limit for my benefits?
- Early Retirement and Spousal Benefits
- Earnings Limit to Rise in 2012
- Economic Effects of Raising Age to Collect Social Security
- Eight Ways To Keep Social Security Afloat
- Eligibility - Social Security: Am I Eligible?
- Eligibility Information for the Loan Modification Program
- Estimate Retirement Benefits Online
- Everyone’s Talking About Social Security - How About You?
- Ex-Spouse Asks About Benefits
- Ex-Wife Drawing My Social Security Benefit
- Faces of Social Security
- Faces of Social Security: Arthur Rubin
- Faces of Social Security: Cindy Sturgeon
- Faces of Social Security: D. Irene Ramirez
- Faces of Social Security: Gary Del Mastro
- Faces of Social Security: Jeanette Trahan
- Faces of Social Security: Joan Guentner
- Faces of Social Security: Kaz Fujimoto
- Faces of Social Security: Margie Metzler
- Faces of Social Security: Melanie L. Griffin
- Faces of Social Security: Rolf K. Fischer
- Faces of Social Security: Rosemary McGovern
- Faces of Social Security: Timothy M. Modlin
- Family: A Benefit Plan for Dependents
- Fast-Tracked Social Security Disability List Expands Again
- Feasibility of Social Security Individual Accounts
- Fight Social Security Cuts: Tell Your Story
- Filing for Disability on a Late Husband's Record
- Find Disability Benefits on Websites Beyond SocialSecurity.gov
- Find Out How Much You Will Get From Social Security
- Finding Your 'Next Act' After Retirement
- Health Care Troubles Trump Social Security
- Hispanics 65 and Older: Sources of Retirement Income
- How Can I Get Health Coverage?
- How Can I Replace a Lost Card?
- How Carve-Out Private Accounts Deal with Increases in Life Expectancy
- How Do I Apply for Disability?
- How Do I Find My Daughter's Missing Dad's Social Security Number?
- How Do I Get a Social Security Card?
- How Do Military Special Credits Work?
- How Do Widows' Benefits Work?
- How Does a Name Change Affect Social Security Benefits?
- How Does the Annual Earnings Limit Affect My Payment?
- How Earnings and Financial Risk Affect Private Accounts in Social Security Reform
- How FDR Created Social Security
- How Is My Social Security Benefit Calculated?
- How Long Will I Live?
- How Much Do You Know about Social Security?
- How Much Does Early Retirement Reduce Benefits?
- How Social Security Works
- How Social Security and Medicare Work Together
- How Unemployment Benefits Affect Social Security
- How Will My Job Affect My Early Social Security Benefit?
- How are Social Security benefits calculated?
- How can I appeal a decision by the Social Security Administration?
- How can I find out how much my Social Security benefit will be reduced if I am subject to the Windfall Elimination Provision?
- How can I find out what benefits I would receive if I draw Social Security on my ex-husband's work record?
- How can I find out whether I'm eligible for any of the benefits that Social Security offers?
- How can I get a Social Security number for a new baby?
- How can I get a copy of my award letter or original statement from Social Security?
- How can I get an estimation of how much I will collect when I retire?
- How can I have federal taxes withheld from my Social Security benefit?
- How can I replace a lost Social Security card?
- How can I tell if my former spouse is collecting a benefit on my Social Security record? If they are, will it affect me when I retire at 65?
- How can I track down a pension from a former employer?
- How do I apply for Social Security retirement benefits?
- How do I apply for Supplemental Security Income (SSI)?
- How do I get a Social Security card?
- How do divorced spouse benefits work?
- How do spousal benefits work?
- How do survivor benefits work?
- How does the Social Security COLA work?
- How far in advance should I sign up for Social Security benefits?
- How long can I draw survivors benefits?
- How long do I have to work to qualify for benefits?
- How long does it take to get a hearing with Social Security to appeal a decision?
- How much longer will Social Security be around?
- How much of my husband's Social Security retirement benefit will I receive if I retire at 62 and he retired at full retirement age?
- How soon do I become eligible for a spouse benefit under my new spouse's Social Security work record?
- How to Access Social Security Online
- How to Maximize Your Benefits
- How to Maximize Your Social Security Check
- How to Replace a Social Security Card
- How to Tune-Up Social Security
- I am 69 years old and collect Social Security. If I get a part-time job - what is the maximum amount I can earn and still keep my Social Security amount?
- I am a retired federal employee but my spouse is not. Can I receive spouse benefits on their record?
- I am a widow. Can I collect Social Security on my own work record at 62 then switch to a widow's benefit from my late husband's record at 66?
- I am collecting retirement benefits but continuing to work. Do I still have to pay FICA taxes on my earnings?
- I am disabled but do not have enough work credits to claim SSDI benefits. Can I claim disability benefits on my spouse's record?
- I am in a same-sex civil union. Can I receive benefits based on my partner's work record?
- I claimed Social Security before full retirement age and earn more than $16,920, so my benefit is reduced. How does the reduction in benefits for working get returned? Or do I lose it forever?
- I currently receive Social Security disability benefits. At what point will I switch to regular Social Security? Will the monthly amount change?
- I didn't work enough to qualify for Social Security. My spouse gets it, but he is ill and may not live much longer. Will I be able to collect benefits?
- I have a Federal pension and am subject to both the WEP and GPO. I do not claim spousal benefits on my husband's Social Security, but claim my own benefits. His benefits are higher. Would I be able to claim survivor benefits on his pension without being penalized under the WEP and/or GPO?
- I have earned enough to qualify for Social Security disability benefits. Is there an advantage to going through an attorney?
- I have two former husbands. I was widowed from the first and divorced from the second. Can I claim benefits on the record of either former spouse?
- I plan to begin taking my full retirement benefit when I reach age 66, but to continue working at my current job. To get the benefits started, do I have to formally resign, and then get rehired?
- I receive Social Security disability payments. Can I withdraw funds from my 401(k) without penalty?
- I received severance pay when my company closed down. How does this affect the Social Security benefit I am collecting?
- I started receiving Social Security, while still working, at age 66. In 2009, 2010 and 2011, I made more money than I ever had before. How often does the Social Security Administration recalculate benefits based on your earnings?
- I want to start collecting my Social Security benefits when I turn 62 on November 14, 2017. I understand that the first benefit on December will not be paid until January 2018. My question is: Should I apply for it now to start the process or am I supposed to wait until November 14 to apply?
- I was married to my first husband for over ten years before our divorce and I have since remarried. Can I still get benefits based upon my first husband's earnings?
- I was married to the same person twice, the first time for 7 years, and the second time for 5 years. Can I collect benefits on their record since the total is over 10 years?
- I will be 65 this year. When should I apply for Medicare?
- I'm 59 years old and want to know when I can claim my late husband’s retirement benefit?
- I'm 62 and planning to take my Social Security later this year. But I've already earned more than the yearly earnings limit for retirees who are between 62 and full retirement age. How will this affect my benefits?
- I'm Divorced. Can I Collect Benefits From My Ex-Husband?
- I'm Not Retired. Do I Have to Enroll in Medicare Part B?
- I'm getting divorced. My husband wants the settlement agreement to say that I will never be able to get a divorced spousal benefit. Is that legal?
- I'm moving out of state. How do I change my address with Social Security?
- I'm receiving Social Security retirement benefits. Are the Social Security benefits my child receives as a dependent on my work record subject to tax?
- I'm receiving survivor benefits before I've reached full retirement age. Will this affect how much I'll receive on my own work record when I reach full retirement age?
- I'm receiving survivor benefits on the record of my deceased husband. Can I receive spousal benefits from the record of my ex-husband instead? I think they would be higher.
- I'm self-employed. Do I still have to pay Social Security and Medicare taxes?
- I'm starting a new job. Will my wages be subject to the FICA tax?
- I've already begun taking Social Security benefits. Is there any way I can get the amount increased?
- If Benefits Are Withheld, Do You Get Them Back?
- If I Work While Receiving Benefits, Do I Still Pay FICA Taxes?
- If I am receiving Social Security disability benefits, is my wife eligible for spouse benefits?
- If I apply for Social Security benefits in the month when I turn full retirement age, when can I expect to receive my first check?
- If I apply for early retirement benefits and switch to a spouse benefit when I reach full retirement age, will the benefit be reduced?
- If I begin receiving my Social Security benefits early at age 62 and continue to work, will my benefits increase when I reach full retirement age?
- If I claim my Social Security benefit after full retirement age, will my spouse receive an increased spouse benefit because I waited?
- If I claim my Social Security benefits at age 62 and my wife waits to claim a spouse benefit at full retirement age, will she receive 50 percent of my full retirement benefit or 50 percent of the early retirement benefit?
- If I collect Social Security benefits early but earn more than $16,920 limit, how do I pay the penalty?
- If I delay claiming my Social Security benefits until after full retirement age, will my spouse receive a spouse benefit based on the additional amount I will receive because I waited?
- If I don't have 40 quarters yet at age 70, can I wait to file for Social Security benefits until I do, even if that is age 75?
- If I move to another state will it affect my Social Security benefit?
- If I receive a spouse benefit, will it reduce the amount that my spouse receives?
- If I retire at 62 or 64 and begin benefits, will I get an increase when I get to 66?
- If I retire at age 62, will I be eligible for Medicare at that time?
- If I stop working before I begin claiming Social Security, will my monthly benefit amount be reduced?
- If I take benefits early, when I reach full retirement age, can I pay back what I have received and then apply for and receive full benefits?
- If Social Security miscalculated your benefits and paid you a lesser amount for several years, do you receive a back payment for the money lost?
- If a Social Security beneficiary dies in the middle of the month, are his or her survivors required to return a portion of the payment?
- If my former spouse remarried and later dies, who is eligible for his Social Security benefits?
- If my government pension is suspended or reduced, will my Social Security benefits increase?
- If my projected Social Security benefit is larger than the maximum monthly benefit, can I still take advantage of delayed retirement credits?
- If my spouse is 62 or older, can she claim spouse benefits even if I am not at retirement age yet?
- If you delay claiming beyond your full retirement age, do you also receive a COLA adjustment?
- If you retire at any point after age 62, are the benefit reductions prorated by month?
- Impact of Early Retirement
- Improving Solvency Using the Social Security Benefit Formula
- In Brief: The Impact of Social Security Reform on Low-Income and Older Women
- In Brief: Impact of the Social Security Retirement Earnings Test on 62-64-Year-Olds
- In Brief: Mandatory Employer Pensions in Ireland, Germany, and the United Kingdom
- In Brief: Raising the Retirement Age Would Impact the Most Vulnerable
- In Brief: Social Security Financing: Automatic Adjustments to Restore Solvency
- In Brief: Social Security Pensionable Age in OECD Countries: 1949-2035
- In Brief: Social Security Privatization Around the World
- In Brief: The Effects of Social Security Reform Proposals on Social Security Disability Insurance, Supplemental Security Income, and Private Disability Insurance
- In Brief: The Feasibility of Social Security Individual Accounts
- In Brief: The Role of Annuities in a Reformed U.S. Social Security System
- In Brief: The Value of Social Security Disability Insurance
- In-Brief: Social Security Reform and Its Effects on Participation in the SSI Program
- Increasing Social Security Benefits
- Increasing Your Social Security Benefit by Working Longer
- Individual Accounts, Social Security, and the 2000 Election
- Individual Accounts: Lessons from Sweden
- Inflation Indexation in Major Federal Benefit Programs: Impact of the Chained CPI
- Investing the Social Security Trust Funds in Equities
- Is Financial Risk Adequately Accounted for in Social Security Reform Measures?
- Is Full Retirement Age Creeping Upward?
- Is Social Security just for retired workers?
- Is it true that some people who are collecting Social Security benefits never paid into the program?
- Is the annual earnings limit for people under full retirement age broken down into a monthly maximum or is it for the year?
- Is the full retirement age being raised?
- Is there a limit to how much I can earn and still collect Social Security benefits?
- Is there a penalty if you're late applying for Medicare?
- Is there any reason to file for disability if you are already collecting regular Social Security?
- It's Time to Protect Social Security
- Job losses, early retirements hurt Social Security
- Jobs, Social Security Top Worries for Voters Over 40, Poll Finds
- Join AARP in the Fight to Protect Social Security and Medicare
- Keep Social Security Strong
- Keeping Social Security Strong
- Keeping a Focus on the Importance of Social Security
- Key Facts about Older Women and Social Security
- Know Your Social Security Rules
- Know the Most Popular Baby Names?
- Latinos Hardest Hit with Proposed Social Security Change
- Latinos Rely on Social Security
- Latinos' Crucial Contributions to Social Security
- Layoffs raise Social Security questions for older workers
- Legacy Politics Could Save Social Security
- Let’s Strengthen Social Security
- Listen Live: AARP on WBZ’s NightSide with Dan Rea
- Little-Known Strategies Could Boost Your Bottom Line
- Lost Rights to Social Security
- MO11_SS Budget Cuts
- MO11_SS Tale10_Jeanette
- MO11_SS Tale2 Sturgeon
- MO11_SS Tale3 Metzler
- MO11_SS Tale4_Prakash
- MO11_SS Tale9_Gary
- MO11_SS_Quiz
- MOUNTAIN OF DEBT: Social Security crisis looms
- Managing a Child's Social Security Benefits
- Mastering the Mysteries of File and Suspend
- Maximize Your Social Security Benefits
- Medicare at 62?
- Meet AARP’s Social Security Expert
- Men Relying More on Social Security
- Michigan Opinion Leaders Examine Social Security
- Milestones in Social Security History
- Millions face shrinking Social Security payments
- Minimum Benefits in Social Security
- Missing Voices in Social Security Debate: Beneficiaries
- More Fast Tracks to Disability Benefits
- More Filing for Social Security
- More Women Rely on Social Security for Retirement
- Must I Stop Working to Get Social Security?
- My Social Security benefit is reduced because I have a government pension. When I die, will my wife's survivor benefits be based on my actual earnings or on my reduced earnings?
- My Social Security earnings statements do not include all my income. How can I correct that?
- My birthday is in November. At my 70th birthday may I wait until January before applying for Social Security benefits? What happens if a 70-year-old does not apply to collect benefits until an older age? Are benefits paid retroactively? Would some benefits be forfeited?
- My boyfriend and I have lived together for over seven years. If he dies, can I collect his Social Security benefits?
- My child is currently receiving benefits on my record. When filing taxes, should I add his income to mine or should I file a separate tax form for him?
- My daughter is a minor and will not be working. So if my earnings exceed the allowed earned income while collecting benefits, my minor daughter's benefit would be reduced as well?
- My ex-spouse has not filed for Social Security benefits yet. Can I still claim benefits on their record?
- My friend died at 66 and never applied for benefits. What happens to the money she contributed to Social Security? Can her children claim benefits?
- My husband and I both worked and qualified for retirement benefits. Can both of us collect our full amounts at the same time?
- My husband passed away in 2000. Will I be able to collect a survivor's benefit on his work record, even though we were only married five years?
- My spouse and I both worked. How can we use the claim and suspend strategy to maximize our benefits?
- My wife already receives benefits from her own work record, but I haven't filed yet. We file our taxes jointly. Will my wife's benefit be reduced because I will make more than $16,920 this year?
- Myths and Truths About Social Security
- National and State Chained CPI Survey
- New Estimator Can Help Determine When To Take Social Security Benefit
- New to Social Security? Here's What You Should Know About Your Benefits
- No COLA Relief Tough on Seniors
- No Social Security COLA—$250 Emergency Relief
- Old Age Survivors and Disability Insurance Trust Funds: 1998 Trustees' Projections
- Old-Age Survivors Insurance and Disability Insurance Trust Funds: 2001 Trustees' Projections
- Old-Age and Survivors Insurance and Disability Insurance Trust Funds: 2000 Trustees' Projections
- Old-Age and Survivors Insurance and Disability Insurance Trust Funds: 2002 Trustees' Projections
- Old-Age and Survivors Insurance and Disability Insurance Trust Funds: 2003 Trustees' Projections
- Old-Age and Survivors Insurance and Disability Insurance Trust Funds: 2004 Trustees' Projections
- Old-Age and Survivors Insurance and Disability Insurance Trust Funds: 2005 Trustees' Projections
- Old-Age and Survivors Insurance and Disability Insurance Trust Funds: 2006 Trustees' Projections
- Old-Age, Survivors And Disability Insurance Trust Funds: 1999 Trustees' Projections
- One in Six Oklahomans Receives Social Security
- Outlook Weakens for Social Security, Medicare
- Paying Back Social Security: Does It Make Sense?
- Paying Taxes on Social Security
- Paying Taxes on Social Security Benefits
- Penalty for Delaying Medicare Sign-up
- Perspectives: Options for Reforming Social Security
- Please Try Again
- President’s Fiscal Commission Weighs Deficit Cuts
- Private Accounts in Chile
- Private Accounts in Sweden
- Proposed Changes to Social Security’s Cost-of-Living Adjustment
- Protect Seniors Campaign Tele-town Hall Scheduled
- Protect Social Security and Medicare
- Protecting Benefits From Garnishment
- Public Attitudes Toward Social Security and Private Accounts
- Putting Off Social Security
- Quiz: Are You Savvy About Social Security?
- Quiz: See What You Know about Social Security Benefits
- Quiz: Test Your Social Security Smarts
- Ready for Retirement?
- Recalculating Benefits for a Spouse
- Receiving Social Security When You’re Too Disabled to Keep Working
- Reform Options for Social Security
- Reforming Social Security
- Reforming Social Security: Lessons from Abroad
- Report Social Security Fraud
- Report: Social Security 'Inundated'
- Rethinking the Role of Older Workers: Promoting Older Worker Employment in Europe and Japan
- Retired at 57. Will My Benefits Be Affected?
- Scam Alert: Benefit Bunko
- Securing Social Security's Future
- Self-Employment and Social Security
- Seniors Are Not on Easy Street, Expert Says
- Sept. 15 Summit on Future of Social Security, Medicare
- Setting Social Security Straight
- Setting Up Monthly Withholding
- Should I Take My Social Security Benefits at 62?
- Sick of Waiting
- Simpson's Social Security Outburst May Upend Fiscal Commission
- So Long, 'File and Suspend'
- Social Security
- Social Security 70th Anniversary Survey Report: Trends Over Time
- Social Security 75th Anniversary Survey Report: Public Opinion Trends
- Social Security A to Z Glossary
- Social Security Administration on Survivor Benefits
- Social Security Alone Isn't Enough
- Social Security Beneficiaries Welcome 3.6 Percent COLA
- Social Security Benefits
- Social Security Benefits Go Electronic
- Social Security Benefits and Severance Pay
- Social Security Benefits and Taxes
- Social Security Benefits for a Former Spouse
- Social Security Calculator: When Should You Claim Your Benefits?
- Social Security Can Stay Strong with Tweaks
- Social Security Changes in 2014
- Social Security Changes in 2015
- Social Security Changes in 2016
- Social Security Cuts Affect Real People
- Social Security Cuts on the Table
- Social Security Debit Cards
- Social Security Disability Insurance: A Primer
- Social Security Disability Insurance: Some Facts
- Social Security Earnings Limit
- Social Security Financing: Automatic Adjustments to Restore Solvency
- Social Security For Dummies - Part Two
- Social Security For Dummies – Part One
- Social Security Going Strong at 75
- Social Security Hike Largest in 26 Years
- Social Security Is Not the Problem
- Social Security Is a Critical Income Source for Older Americans
- Social Security Is a Critical Income Source for Older Americans: State-Level Estimates, 2010–2012
- Social Security Keeps Americans of All Ages Out of Poverty
- Social Security Keeps Older Americans Out of Poverty
- Social Security Limits Do-Overs
- Social Security MailboxYour Employer Isn't Paying FICA Taxes?
- Social Security Marks 75th Anniversary
- Social Security Marks 77 Years
- Social Security Office Hours Trimmed
- Social Security Pensionable Age in OECD Countries: 1949-2035
- Social Security Plays an Important Role in Alaska
- Social Security Privatization Around the World
- Social Security Privatization in Latin America
- Social Security Protects Many From Poverty
- Social Security Question and Answer Tool
- Social Security Recipients Devastated by Bank Account Seizures
- Social Security Recipients Stunned by Reduced Unemployment Benefits
- Social Security Reform and Its Effects on Participation in the Supplemental Security Income Program
- Social Security Reform: Economic Effects of Planned Changes in the CPI
- Social Security Reform: How Might Women Fare?
- Social Security Reform: How do Minorities Fare Under Social Security? A Response to Two Heritage Foundation Reports
- Social Security Reform: Rethinking Retirement-Age Policy--A Look At Raising Social Security's Retirement Age
- Social Security Reform: The Thrift Savings Plan (TSP) for Federal Employees
- Social Security State Quick Fact Sheets: 2005
- Social Security Statements
- Social Security Statements Will No Longer Be Mailed
- Social Security Still Troubles Young and Old
- Social Security Strategies for Singles
- Social Security Survivor Benefits
- Social Security Survivors Benefits for a Working Widow
- Social Security Ticket to Work Program Helps People Get Off Disability
- Social Security Tries the Debit Card Route
- Social Security True or False Quiz
- Social Security Trust Funds: Some Basics
- Social Security Website Easier to Use
- Social Security Widow Benefits
- Social Security Will Be Solvent for Future Generations
- Social Security and African Americans: Some Facts
- Social Security and Hispanics: Some Facts
- Social Security and Income Security in the United States
- Social Security and Me
- Social Security and Medicare Payroll Taxes at 66+
- Social Security and Medicare are Vital Safety Net Programs for Arizonans
- Social Security and Military Service
- Social Security and Older Minorities
- Social Security and Survivor Benefits
- Social Security and Women: Some Facts
- Social Security and the Future of Retirement
- Social Security can Stay Strong with Tweaks
- Social Security for Dummies
- Social Security for Employees
- Social Security in Action
- Social Security in Other Languages
- Social Security to Pay Back Millions in Benefits to People Flagged in Screening
- Social Security's Dramatic Start
- Social Security's Enduring Truths
- Social Security, Longevity Insurance
- Social Security, Medicare Healthier Than Expected
- Social Security, a Target for Cutting Deficit
- Social Security: A Key Retirement Income Source for Minorities
- Social Security: A Brief Overview
- Social Security: A Challenge for Obama
- Social Security: A Key Retirement Income Source for Older Minorities
- Social Security: A Key Retirement Resource for Women
- Social Security: A Look at Three Options
- Social Security: Basic Data
- Social Security: Can It Be Fixed?
- Social Security: Closing the Gap
- Social Security: Fears vs. Facts
- Social Security: Get the Facts
- Social Security: Its Past, Present and Future
- Social Security: It’s Not Just for <br> the Retired
- Social Security: Making Sense of Alphabet Soup
- Social Security: Not a Ponzi Scheme
- Social Security: Some Basic Data
- Social Security: Ten Facts that Matter
- Social Security: Voices and Values
- Social Security: What You Can Do Online
- Social Security: Where Do We Go From Here?
- Social Security: Who’s Counting On It?
- Social SecurityGetting The Story Straight
- Social Security’s Impact on the National Economy
- Sound Off: Do You Favor or Oppose Changing Social Security?
- Speaking Out on Social Security
- Supplemental Security Income (SSI)
- Surviving Without a Social Security COLA
- Taking Bank Fees From Social Security Checks
- Taking an Early Benefit
- Tell Your Social Security Story to the World
- Ten Facts to Remember About Social Security
- Ten Points Concerning Carve-Out Social Security Individual Accounts
- Test Your Knowledge of Social Security
- Test Your Social Security Knowledge
- Texans Rally in Defense of Social Security
- The CPI Options: What They Are and What They Mean for Social Security
- The Characteristics of Social Security Beneficiaries Who Claim Benefits at the Early Entitlement Age
- The Consumer Price Index: How It Impacts the Federal Budget and Social Security Benefits
- The Debate Continues
- The Effect of Using Price Indexation Instead of Wage Indexation in Calculating the Initial Social Security Benefit
- The Effects of Investing the Social Security Trust Funds in GNMA Mortgage-Backed Securities
- The Financing of Social Security
- The Government Pension Offset (GPO)
- The Great Switch to Paperless Benefits
- The History of the Social Security Program
- The Impact of Mandatory Social Security Coverage of State and Local Workers: A Multi-State Review
- The Impacts of an Increase in the Social Security Retirement Age and the Medicare Eligibility Age on Social Security Disability Insurance, Medicare, and Employment
- The Importance of Social Security for African Americans
- The Ins and Outs of Supplemental Security Income
- The Line Starts Here
- The Public Response to the Consequences of Social Security Private Accounts
- The Road to Social Security
- The Role of Annuities in a Reformed U.S. Social Security System
- The Safety Net's Future: What's Next for Social Security and Medicare?
- The Social Security Benefit Formula
- The Social Security Earnings Limit and Incentives to Claim Social Security Benefits
- The Social Security “Offset’” Rule: What is it and how could it affect you?
- The Strength of Social Security
- The Tough Choices: Social Security
- The Value of Social Security Disability Insurance
- The Windfall Reduction
- The name on my birth certificate has a different spelling than what's on my driver's license, credit cards and Social Security card. Will this cause a problem when I apply for benefits?
- Too Much Red Ink
- Top Social Security Questions Answered
- Top Social Security Questions From Readers
- Tracking Down a Pension
- Understanding Social Security
- Understanding the 'Family Maximum'
- Understanding the Different Kinds of Social Security Benefits
- Understanding the Social Security 'Notch'
- Updating Social Security for the 21st Century: 12 Proposals You Should Know About
- Waiting for Disability
- Waiting for Social Security Disability
- We Need Your Voice to Keep Social Security Alive
- We always hear about the benefits of waiting to collect Social Security, but no one talks about the opportunity cost of not starting at 62, i.e. how many years at the higher benefit it will take to make up for the years of benefits one did not receive from 62 to the time they start collecting. Shouldn't life expectancy enter into this calculation?
- We're both at full retirement age in Jan 2016. I filed a restricted application in Jan 2016 and my wife has been receiving spousal benefit since then. I decided to apply for my benefit before reaching age 70. Will my wife continue to receive her spousal benefit or will she have to switch to her own benefit?
- What Are Compassionate Allowances?
- What Do Women's Groups Want?
- What Happened to My Social Security COLA?
- What Happens to Me When My Husband Dies?
- What Happens to My Social Security Benefits If I Work Abroad?
- What Happens to Social Security Disability Benefits at Retirement?
- What Happens to a Prisoner's Benefits?
- What Is Randomization?
- What Social Security Changes Are Coming in 2013?
- What You Need to Know About the Windfall Elimination Provision
- What are rules for parents to collect benefits on their children's record?
- What are the "special credits" that veterans receive for military service?
- What benefits are available to spouses who did not work outside the home, or who did not work long enough to qualify for Social Security benefits on their own record?
- What documents do I need to have in order to file for Social Security benefits on a former spouse's record?
- What does Social Security Mean for Tennesseans?
- What does the IRS consider 'Combined Income' (sometimes called Provisional)?
- What does the Social Security Administration consider to be a disability that warrants a quick decision?
- What happens to the Social Security benefits of a person who goes to jail?
- What is my full retirement age?
- What is the Social Security Death Benefit?
- What is the Windfall Elimination Provision?
- What is the impact on benefits If I claim before my Full Retirement Age?
- What is the income cap and what is the maximum amount of income that is subject to the FICA tax?
- What is the maximum full retirement benefit that someone can receive?
- What is the minimal strong qualifiers to apply for disability?
- What the Payroll Tax Cut Means for Social Security
- What to Do When Social Security Benefits Are Wrong
- What's That Code on My Medicare Card?
- What's a Representative Payee?
- What's the Best Age to Claim Benefits?
- What's the Difference Between SSDI and SSI?
- What's the Maximum Social Security Benefit?
- What's the Ticket to Work Program?
- When Creditors Seize Social Security Payments
- When Do I Get My Full Social Security Benefit?
- When I turn 62, can I collect an spousal benefit on my ex-spouse's Social Security record and then switch to the benefit on my own record at full retirement age?
- When Should I Begin Social Security Benefits?
- When Should I Start Benefits?
- When Should I Start Social Security Benefits?
- When Should You Claim Your Social Security?
- When Will I Get My Social Security Benefits?
- When can I begin receiving Social Security benefits without being subject to the earnings limit?
- When is the earliest age I can receive Social Security benefits?
- When someone dies, how does the Social Security Administration know?
- When to Apply for Social Security Benefits
- When to Claim Social Security Benefits
- When to Start Social Security Benefits
- Where We Stand: Listen To The Voters
- Where can I get a copy of my SSA-1099 tax form?
- Where's My Annual Statement?
- Which states tax Social Security benefits?
- Who Can Receive Social Security?
- Who Is Eligible to Receive the Social Security Death Benefit?
- Who is responsible for handling Social Security benefits paid to a minor?
- Who will be affected by any of the proposed cuts and changes to Social Security?
- Who'll Qualify for the Minimum Part B Premium?
- Whose Benefits Are Best?
- Why Is My Social Security Check Smaller Than That of Someone Who Earned a Similar Wage?
- Why does my benefit increase if I delay claiming past 62, the earliest age of eligibility?
- Why was the Windfall Elimination Provision created?
- Widows, Wives and Social Security Benefits
- Will Getting a Pension Lower Your Benefit?
- Will My Wife Benefit If I Wait Until 70 to Take My Social Security?
- Will Remarrying Reduce My Benefits?
- Will Social Security Checks Arrive?
- Will There Be a COLA Rise in 2013?
- Will Using a Nickname Be a Problem for Social Security?
- Will Working After Retirement Raise My Social Security Benefit?
- Will Years I Don't Work Lower My Social Security Benefit?
- Will Your Social Security Benefits Be Taxed?
- Will a Layoff Reduce My Benefits?
- Will my disability amount ever go up even though my disabilities get worse because of the main disability?
- Will the Social Security Earnings Penalty Affect Me?
- Will the benefits I receive as an ex-spouse decrease the benefits my former spouse and/or his new wife receives?
- Women Strengthen Social Security
- Women and Individual Social Security Accounts in Chile, Australia, and the United Kingdom
- Women and Social Security Benefits
- Work, Pension, and Taxes - Getting a Closer Look
- Working After You Retire
- Working Longer Is Not Always an Option
- Working While Collecting Social Security
- You Can Help Protect Social Security
- You Earned It, You Deserve It
- Your Dual Income
- You’ve Earned A Say Oregon Town Hall
- You’ve Earned a Say Wyoming
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