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MARGENAU: Simple and Smart Update
Readers are always asking me if I could recommend a good book about Social Security. I always steer them to the best book out there. It’s called “Social Security Simple […]
MARGENAU: Questions I’m Asked Over and Over Again
In the 28 years I’ve been writing this column, I bet I’ve written 128 columns about the most common questions I get. However, I suppose not everyone is clipping those […]
MARGENAU: One Big Ugly Press Release
I am so embarrassed by my former employer, the Social Security Administration. By issuing a press release that not only supports but outright glorifies the recently passed “One Big Beautiful […]
MARGENAU: Your Right to File a Claim
If you think you are eligible for Social Security benefits, you have every right to file a claim for those benefits. This is a message I’ve delivered before in this […]
MARGENAU: More Clarification of the ‘Spousal Bump’
I don’t think I coined the term. But I may have helped spread it around the world of Social Security. I’m referring to the “spousal bump.” Every time I hear […]
MARGENAU: Older People and Social Security Disability
I often feel guilty if I write a column that essentially repeats information I’ve given in past columns. But readers often remind me that I shouldn’t worry about that. For […]
MARGENAU: Clarifying the DOGE Allegations About Social Security
Many readers have been emailing me asking for my help in understanding the allegations made by Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency about sloppy recordkeeping at the Social […]
MARGENAU: Why Some People Don’t Pay Into Social Security
In some columns I wrote earlier this month about the repeal of laws that affect people who spent a large portion of their careers working at jobs that were not […]
MARGENAU: Answering Questions From Widows
I hope there is nothing in the air that is causing old goats like me to keel over. For some reason, I’ve been getting a lot of questions from widows […]
MARGENAU: Less for Others but More for Me
I had originally planned to use this space to write a follow-up column to one I wrote several weeks ago about the misnamed “Social Security Fairness Act.” But I’ve decided […]
MARGENAU: The Social Security Fairness Act: A $200 Billion Boondoggle
Congress just passed a law that will give me (and millions of people like me) extra Social Security benefits that we simply do not deserve and haven’t earned. To understand what […]
MARGENAU: Politics, Elections and Social Security
Because the presidential and congressional elections are on everyone’s mind, more than a few people have sent me emails saying something like this: “I’m afraid that this upcoming election will […]
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