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VOL. 33 NO. 6
Phase Two of Your Life?
A Mature News Magazine for Southeastern Wisconsin
SENIORFEST- June 12th
June 2019
INSIDE.... Check out our
Apartment & Condominium Directory See Page 15
Nemovitz on Real Estate
See Page 5
Age discrimination See Page 11
Jack Pearson loves a star performance See Page 30
Calendar of Events
See Page 34
Seniorfest will be better than ever this year. The excitement will be at the Italian Community Center. Bobby Way who is pictured here will perform from 1:30 to 3:30 pm at this great event. Doors open at 9 am.
2019 Social Security trustees report shows little change
The 2019 Social Security Trustees Report (covering 2018) shows little change from the past several such reports. But, for some reason, the 2019 report has generated more talk of problems in the long-term financing of Social Security. Once again some people, mostly politicians and media, are using words like “bankruptcy” to describe the financial status of the Trust Fund. Over
AGING ISSUES
By Tom Frazier
the past 10 years, I have written numerous articles about Social Security, its financial condition and how there are many options to making the Trust Fund solvent for the next 75 years. At the end of 2018, the Social Security Trust Fund was projected to be able to pay full benefits until 2035 (up from 2034 in 2016). Let me repeat one more time - Social Security is not going
bankrupt and politicians who say or imply that are not telling the truth and, even worse, are not proposing solutions to fix longer term problems. Rather than write yet another article about the 2019 report, I am reprinting an article that I wrote in February 2018. The facts remain the same. FRAZIER continued on page 3