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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
MARGENAU: An Antidote to Maximizing Mania
I’ve written about my now deceased friend, Don Winters, before. But I can tell from my emails that it’s time to share his story again. Every single day, I get […]
MARGENAU: Social Security COLA for 2026
In early October of 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. (It […]
MARGENAU: Benefit Adjustment at Full Retirement Age
I hear one or both of these rumors about Social Security benefits all the time from readers. Rumor 1: “I have been told that if I take a reduced Social Security […]
MARGENAU: Don’t Drop the Ball
Sometimes people will write to me complaining that the government, specifically, the Social Security Administration, has messed them up and cheated them out of benefits they might have been due. […]
MARGENAU: More Stories From My Trip to Poland
About a month ago, I wrote a column about a trip I took on behalf of the Social Security Administration to Poland in the 1990s. To be honest, I thought readers would criticize me […]
MARGENAU: Not Your Grandma’s Social Security Office Anymore
In the 1960s, Bob Dylan released an album called “The Times, They Are a-Changin‘.” I seriously doubt that the troubadour was thinking about Social Security when he wrote those ballads. […]
MARGENAU: Different Answers Are Not Necessarily Wrong Answers
Readers frequently tell me that they talked to two different Social Security Administration agents and got two different answers. Or they tell me that a neighbor gave them one bit […]
MARGENAU: Why Widows Can’t File for Benefits Online
Q: My husband died several months ago. I’m 64. I’m getting my own retirement benefits, and he was getting his own benefits. His Social Security check was more than mine, […]
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