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MARGENAU: How your retirement benefit is calculated
Q. Even though I’m not on Social Security, I’ve been reading your column for years. A while back, I had clipped out a column you wrote explaining how benefits are […]
MARGENAU: Social Security update for 2024
It has been my custom for most of the past 27 years to write a year-end column that summarizes the Social Security updates scheduled to take place the following year. […]
MARGENAU: Will the Christmas Spirit rub off on disability haters?
I was struck by something I heard the other day on a radio show. The host of the program was making the point that he thought people are just getting […]
MARGENAU: Social Security COLA for 2024
In mid-October every year, the Bureau of Labor Statistics releases its much-anticipated report on changes (usually increases) to the Consumer Price Index over the past 12 months. Why is this […]
MARGENAU: Don’t know much about Medicare
I just got my annual Medicare guidebook called “Medicare and You 2024” in the mail. I’m assuming this booklet is mailed to everyone in the country who is on Medicare. […]
MARGENAU: The Windfall Elimination provision
A few weeks ago, I wrote a column about something called the “government pension offset.” It is a law that essentially says this: If you get a pension from a […]
MARGENAU: Disability myths
There are so many misconceptions about the Social Security disability program. I’ve written a book called “Social Security: 100 Myths and 100 Facts.” It puts to rest all the crazy […]
MARGENAU: Bob and Carol and Ted and Alice
Do any of you remember the movie: “Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice?” It came out in 1969 and starred Robert Culp and Natalie Wood as a trendy West […]
MARGENAU: Commissioner who?
For reasons that will become clear at the end of this column, I am updating another column I wrote about four years ago. I am going to give you a series […]
MARGENAU: Yes, rich people should get social security
I get lots of emails from readers expressing sentiments similar to what these guys recently sent me: “Why should rich people get Social Security? I think it’s just morally wrong […]
MARGENAU: Benefits for spouses
I think I get more questions about benefits for spouses than I do about any other kind of Social Security benefit. And even though I’m using the gender-neutral term, “spouses,” […]
MARGENAU: Customers give SSA a thumbs up
Q: In a recent column, you highlighted some harsh words from a guy who was critical of the government in general and the Social Security Administration in particular. I just wanted […]
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