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MARGENAU: How Social Security Has Evolved
I continually remind my readers that they shouldn’t worry too much when they read or hear reports of Social Security‘s imminent collapse. Once Congress works up the nerve to deal with the […]
GOLDMAN: Diet Your Way to Success
May I tell you about my diet? It’s simple, really. I eat Keto on Monday, Wednesday and Friday. I eat Paleo on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. On Sunday, I don’t eat anything at all. Because I drink […]
MARGENAU: Protecting Your Right to Benefits
This column will discuss a special procedure that the Social Security Administration routinely uses to help individuals protect their rights to potential benefits. It’s called a “protective filing date.” In a nutshell, […]
GOLDMAN: Falling In Love with the Office — Again
Still working from home and loving it? There’s a word for people like you. The word is “old.” You’re old because when you started your career the only way to do your […]
MARGENAU: How to Handle Social Security Issues When Someone Dies
Every couple of years, I like to cover a topic that confuses almost everyone. And that confusion comes at a time when they have so many other things on their minds. I’m talking […]
GOLDMAN: Socializing Out of the Office? You’re Out of Your Mind
Are you an innie or an outie? If you watch “Severance,” you’ll definitely know. The hit TV show is about people who undergo brain surgery to separate their lives into two parts — an innie, […]
MARGENAU: Giving Thanks for Social Security
It has become a bit of a tradition for me to run an annual Thanksgiving column. I always think this is a good time of the year to remind people […]
GOLDMAN: Quiet Please — I’m Trying to Not Work Here
I don’t know whose bright idea it was, but the person who came up with the concept of the open office deserves to be severely punished. How about a sentence of 40 years, working […]
MARGENAU: Why Did I Start Getting More Money from Social Security?
I got a letter recently from the Social Security Administration. It told me that my monthly Social Security benefit was going up by a few bucks each month. And why […]
GOLDMAN: Want a Promotion? Lift Your Pinky
You’re throwing a dinner party for a bunch of tech bros. You know there will be fist-pumping and chest-thumping and all the other macho signaling regularly observed in boardrooms in Silicon Valley and gorilla cages […]
MARGENAU: Young People and Social Security
The people who syndicate this column have just assigned a new editor to me. She’s a relatively young person. (Of course, when you are 76 years old, as I am, […]
GOLDMAN: When Your Co-Worker is a Robot
Am I being paranoid? In the same week that Amazon announces it is firing 14,000 workers, The New York Times runs an article with the headline, “Amazon Plans to Replace More […]
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