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• Morton began adding magnesium carbonate to salt which prevented it from clumping up even in the rainiest environments. This inspired their slogan (swiped from the Bible, and suggested by Morton’s son) “When it rains, it pours.” Soon the famous logo of the little girl with the big umbrella carrying a container of leaking salt became an iconic image. In a poll taken of American housewives, 90% immediately recognized the picture and knew the slogan. After Norton solved the pesky problem of clumping, the use of the salt shaker at mealtime became standard. • In 1903, the Morton warehouse in South Chicago contained over 200,000 tons of salt the world’s largest salt stock under a single roof. No one knows what started the huge fire, but the entire compound was in total ruins by the time it was finally extinguished. Where once there were mountains of pure white salt, now there were piles of blackened cystals, covered with ashes and carbon.

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local Social Security office what your retirement and widow’s benefits are and then sit down with a calculator and figure out what to do. If, as you said, your husband always made “a little more” than you did, then my hunch is your Social Security benefit rates are similar, with his probably being slightly more than yours. If that’s the case, then my educated guess is that your best option would be to take reduced widow’s benefits now and let your own benefit continue to grow until age 70 when you could make that switch to the 132 percent retirement rate. And finally, here is a note of clarification for some of my readers. As a general rule, widows are the only Social Security beneficiaries who have the option of taking reduced benefits on one record and later switching to full benefits on another record. If you are a retiree who elects to start benefits before full retirement age, you MUST file your own retirement benefits. You can NOT claim benefits from a spouse and later switch to your own. If, however, you hold off until age 66 to claim benefits, then you can play this switching game. ForADVERTISING example, you could claim one half of PROOF spouse’s SocialDUE: Security and 8/31/15 delay your 5:00 own p.m.. I am 61. My husband of 35 years yourFinal Mon, Changes carefully. Double check: to  Phone  Spelling  Prices  Hours untilreview 70, and then switch the Number(s) 132 percent rate. died several months ago. I filed for and re- Please ceived the Social Security death benefit. When Contact your Tidbits representative immediately with changes or corrections. Fax: 760-320-1630 If youOffice: have760-320-0997 a Social Security question, Tom I asked about widow’s benefits, they rather Margenau has the answer. Contact him at thomas.marcurtly told me I wasn’t eligible, so I just left it genau@comcast.net. To find out more about Tom Marat that. Now I’m wondering if I should be getgenau and to read past columns and see features from ting something. Can you help? Here is some other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit background. Both my husband and I worked the Creators Syndicate website at www.creators.com. all our lives. He always made a little more than I did. I am thinking of retiring next year. COPYRIGHT 2015 CREATORS.COM age increases is a mystery to me. Anyway, the age at which a widow can claim full benefits is 66, if she was born between 1945 and 1956. You will note that is two years behind the retirement age increase. Then, like the retirement age FRA, it begins to go up in two-month increments. Widows born in 1957 must be 66 and 2 months. Widows born in 1958 must be 66 and 4 months. And it continues to climb incrementally until it caps off at age 67 for widows born in 1962 and later. (For retirees, the age 67 cap began with folks born in 1960.) And like retirees, Congress did not change the earliest age at which a widow can claim benefits. It remains at age 60. But because Congress apparently doesn’t like messing around with a widow’s monthly Social Security benefits, they did not change the reduction factor. So, for example, a widow who was born in 1949 and whose FRA is 66, can opt to take a 29.5 percent reduction if she takes benefits at 60. Likewise, a widow who was born in 1962 would get the same 29.5 percent reduction if she also starts her benefits at 60.

Assuming you are making considerably more than the Social Security earnings penalty limit of $15,720, then you are not due any benefits right now. But if you retire next year, you will have a couple options. You could, for example, take reduced retirement benefits (assuming you are 62 or older when you retire). You would get about 75 percent of your full retirement benefit. Then when you reach age 66, you could switch to 100 percent of your widow’s rate. Or you could go the other way around. You could start out taking reduced widow’s benefits at age 62. You’d get an 81 percent benefit rate. Then you’d continue with those benefits until age 66, when you would switch to 100 percent of your own. Or you could opt to wait until age 70 when you would get a “delayed retirement bonus” of 32 percent added to your retirement rate. In other words, you’d get 132 percent of your retirement benefit if you can hold off making the switch until age 70. Which way you go (taking the widow’s benefits first or taking your own retirement benefits first) depends entirely on the money amounts involved. So you will have to ask someone at your

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