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Deportation And Wiretapping At The Supreme Court

HuffingtonPost.com | Mike Sacks | Posted 05.21.2012

Read More: Supreme Court, US Supreme Court, Interpreter, Clapper-v-Amnesty-International-USA, Social Security, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Samuel Alito, Amnesty International, Immigration, James Clapper, Translation, Social Security Benefits, Deportation, Elena Kagan, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- With five weeks remaining in its term, the Supreme Court on Monday morning chipped away at its 20-plus cases yet to be decided by issuin...

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What Half A Billion Dollars Buys You In Washington

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 05.15.2012

Read More: Taxes, Bill Clinton, Entitlements, Social Security, John Boehner, Social Security Cuts, Peter G. Peterson Foundation, Pete Peterson, Entitlement Reform, Video, Tom Brokaw, Hedge Funds, Tim Geithner, Medicare, David Walker, Peter Peterson, Social Security Benefits, Paul Ryan, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- Peter Peterson, a Wall Street billionaire who has been calling for cuts to Social Security and other government programs for years, is h...

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WATCH: Social Security For Dummies

Posted 05.23.2012

Read More: Baby Boomer, Aarp Social Security, Pension, Video, Social Security, 401k, Retirement, Social Security for Dummies, Aarp, Retirement Calculator, Social Security Benefits, Jonathan Peterson, Ira, Fifty News

The financial jargon and parade of rules and exceptions associated with Social Security can prevent Americans from fully utilizing their benefits. To ...

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Death to Social Security Trust Funds

Jim Jaffe | Posted 05.01.2012

Read More: Income Tax, Social Security, Medicare, Federal Budget Deficit, Retirement, Social Security Benefits, Politics News

It may be time to simply abolish the funds and pay for promised benefits via the budget using the same mechanism that's now used to finance other promised benefits, like pensions and healthcare for retired government workers and military retirees.

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Social Security Trust Fund Exhaustion: A Moving Target

Jared Bernstein | Posted 04.24.2012

Read More: Social Security Administration, Social Security, Social Security Cuts, Budget, Medicare, Obama Social Security, Social Security Benefits, Social Security Trust Fund, Politics News

When the trustees of the Social Security and Medicare programs release their annual reports, one of the first thing folks look for is whether the life of the trust funds that finance these retirement security programs have been extended or reduced. Well, the reports came out on Monday, and the key takeaway from where I sit is that these remain critically important programs whose future can and should be ensured by policy actions designed to enable both programs to continue to provide retirement security for generations to come. As with so much else in our fiscal and economic landscape these days, the best thing to do in the near term is everything we can to get the recession behind us and get back on a stronger growth path.

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A Young Person's Debate

Alex Wirth | Posted 05.14.2012

Read More: Millennial Generation, Social Security, Entrepreneurship, Social Security Benefits, Nasi, Social Security Cuts, Millenial, Social Security Reform, Politics News

Young people are worried Social Security will not be there for them and are looking for other options to ensure their future economic security. My generation doesn't want to be paying into a system from which we won't receive anything.

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Taking Social Security's Best Deal

Laurence J. Kotlikoff | Posted 05.12.2012

Read More: Spousal Benefits, Financial Planning, Social Security Benefits, Delayed Retirement Credit, Personal Financial Planning, Money News

Over lunch the other day, a friend told me, out of the blue, that I wouldn't believe how complicated Social Security benefit-taking rules are. He then told me he'd figured out how to get the most from the system for himself and his wife Karen.

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Proposed Social Security Chained COLA Not Ready for Prime Time

Merton Bernstein | Posted 05.07.2012

Read More: Social Security Benefits, Social Security Cola, Social Security Chained COLA, Social Security Modest Benefits, Iras, 401(K)s, Private Retirement Plan Deterioration, Politics News

Until the necessary procedures are designed, tested, and proven feasible , chained COLA will not be ready for prime time. Even then, it would reduce benefits and impose harm without adequate justification.

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2 Secrets The Social Security Administration Won't Tell You

The Huffington Post | Ann Brenoff | Posted 03.05.2012

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Navigating Social Security benefits takes more than a compass. And don't expect a lot of help from the Social Security Administration. But that do...

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Social Security: Mitch Daniels and the Millionaires' "Means Testing" Scam

Richard (RJ) Eskow | Posted 04.03.2012

Read More: Mitch Daniels, Social Security, Means Testing, Social Security Benefits, Saving for Retirement, Retirement, Mitch Daniels Means Testing, Social Security Reform, Politics News

The means-testing proposal is a Trojan horse. It uses anti-millionaire rhetoric to create the machinery for denying benefits to rich people, but its backers will then use that machinery against most Americans.

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The Simple Money Move That Could Save Social Security

Posted 01.21.2012

Read More: Social Security, Planning for Retirement, Working Retirees, Saving for Retirement, Social Security Benefits, Retirement, Fifty News

(Courtesy Daily Finance) It's hard to be optimistic about Social Security. With many experts pointing to Social Security's imminent collapse and p...

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To Maximize Retirement Benefits, Know The Rules

www.reuters.com | Posted 01.20.2012

Read More: Retirement Benefits, Married Couples, Social Security, Retirement, Medicare, Employment-Status, Filing for Social Security, Social Security Benefits, Seniors, Fifty News

(Reuters) - When the oldest baby boomers start turning 66 this year, they'll be eligible to file for full Social Security benefits. But pollsters say ...

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Disability Benefits Last Chance For Jobless To Survive

The Huffington Post | Bonnie Kavoussi | Posted 12.28.2011

Read More: Video, Unemployment, Social Security, Unemployment Insurance, Unemployment Benefits, Social Security Disability Income, Disability, Social Security Benefits, Social Security Disability Claims, Business News

As more jobless people run out of unemployment insurance, they are turning to a last resort to make ends meet: government disability benefits. Two ...

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Why 2012 Is a Huge Year for Retiring Boomers

Ann Brenoff | Posted 05.17.2012

Read More: Social Security, Social Security Benefits, Baby Boomer, Social Security Administration, Social Security Disability, Social Security Death Index, Fifty News

Nota bene: 2012 is a critical year on the Baby Boomers' timeline. In 2012, the oldest boomers will turn 66, the magic age at which they can claim the whole enchilada of the Social Security benefits they have earned and, as an added topping, the penalty for working and collecting benefits goes away. Big news, right? Maybe, maybe not.

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What Social Security Gets You: A Minimum-Wage Lifestyle

www.dailyfinance.com | Posted 12.21.2011

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Millions of senior citizens breathed a sigh of relief when the Social Security Administration announced that due to inflation it would be increasing p...

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New Poverty High: Revised Census Formula Shows 49.1 Million

AP | By HOPE YEN | Posted 01.07.2012

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By HOPE YEN, Associated Press WASHINGTON -- The ranks of America's poor are greater than previously known, reaching a new level of 49.1 million - or ...

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New Social Security Proposal Has Senior Groups Up In Arms

AP | STEPHEN OHLEMACHER | Posted 01.07.2012

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WASHINGTON — Just as 55 million Social Security recipients are about to get their first benefit increase in three years, Congress is looking at ...

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Does the Religious Right Really Care about Children?

Nathaniel Frank | Posted 12.28.2011

In anointing themselves the champions of "family values" and protectors of vulnerable children, religious conservatives have had little to say when confronted with the undeniable existence of actual gay families -- particularly kids with LGBT parents.

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Social Security Recipients Praise Raise

AP | MATT SEDENSKY | Posted 12.21.2011

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WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — For some, the just-announced increase in Social Security checks amounts to an extra meal out, a little more cash for clo...

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Half Of Young People Don't Expect To Get Social Security

Posted 12.20.2011

Read More: Social Security Administration, Video, Social Security, Social Security Cuts, Millennials, Business News, Millennial Generation, Social Security Benefits, Millennials Social Security, Social Security Reform, Business News

In the eyes of half of America's youngest voters, the American dream of government-funded retirement is slipping away. Half of Americans between th...

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You Can Take It With You: Dead Federal Retirees Paid Millions Annually, Report Finds

Washington Post | By Ed O’Keefe | Posted 11.23.2011

Read More: Federal Funding, Retirement Benefits, Retirees, Federal Workers, Social Security, Deceased Federal Workers, Money, Retirement, Office of Personnel Management, Medicare, Patrick McFarland, Social Security Benefits, Politics News

The federal government pays out millions of dollars to dead people each year -- including deceased retired federal workers, according to a new report....

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Why Social Security Is Still the Third Rail

Martin Nolan | Posted 11.14.2011

Read More: Social Security, Social Security Benefits, Social Security Election, Social Security Gop, Social Security Cuts, Politics News

In the most recent Republican debate, Perry said he wanted "a conversation." That's usually when candidates get into trouble.

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Social Security Advocates Worry About Obama's Tax Proposal

AP | By ALAN FRAM | Posted 11.13.2011

WASHINGTON -- Some Social Security advocates fear that President Barack Obama's desire to cut taxes supporting the program will undermine its vaunted ...

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The Social Security Conundrum Explained

Paul Heroux | Posted 10.22.2011

Read More: Social Security Administration, Taxes, Treasury Department, Benefits, Social Security, Social Security Cuts, Pensions, Social Security Crisis, Obama Social Security, Tea Party, Social Security Benefits, Raise Taxes, Public Financing, Treasury Bonds, Politics News

But how can drastic action be necessary when the Social Security trust fund reportedly has over $2.4 trillion in it at present? This is a misleading sleight-of-hand. Here is how.

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Social Security Disability Program On Brink Of Insolvency

AP | STEPHEN OHLEMACHER | Posted 10.21.2011

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WASHINGTON — Laid-off workers and aging baby boomers are flooding Social Security's disability program with benefit claims, pushing the financia...

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