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My Advice: Don’t Play by the Rules Well, let’s see if I get in trouble again! Today’s question comes from a retiree who plans to return to work and is worried about how his earnings might jeopardize his eligibility for his Social Security benefits. It’s a question I’m often asked. And my usual answer doesn’t exactly follow the Social Security Administration playbook. In the past, I’ve gotten into trouble with some of my former colleagues at SSA who took me to task for encouraging people to bend the rules. But I still think I’m handing out good advice. Before I get to the question and my apparently controversial answer, let me first explain the rules. Once you are 66 years old, you can make as much money as you want and get all of your Social Security checks. But if you are on Social Security and you are under that magic age and you return to work, then the law says that for every two dollars you earn over $16,920, one dollar must be withheld from your Social Security benefits. It sounds simple enough. But the reason it gets complicated has to do with the mechanics of how the law is administered. Let’s follow an example. Jack is 64 and getting Social Security. He starts working and dutifully reports his earnings to Social Security (after waiting on hold for 45 minutes). He is told that based on his reported earnings, he isn’t due any benefits for the next five months. After a couple of months’ processing delay, SSA finally stops his checks. And being a good citizen, Jack had returned the two checks he received before his benefits were stopped. But then a month later, Jack got an overpayment letter from SSA telling him he owed an amount equal to the two benefits checks he already returned. It took several more months to straighten that out. Then later in the year, Jack learned he was getting a raise and was asked to work more hours. So now he was expecting to make several thousand dollars more than the first estimate he gave SSA. Once again, he reported this. And that report led to another overpayment letter advising him of benefits he was now not due based on his new estimate. Then, at the beginning of the next year, when he got his W-2, it turned out that he didn’t make quite as much as he had previously reported to SSA. So now, the agency owed Jack some of that money they had asked him to repay last year. But at the same time, Jack reported his anticipated earnings for the new year, and this led to another round of benefit reductions and overpayment letters. And on and on it goes! And this is not an exaggerated example. It is fairly typical of what happens to folks when they get wrapped up in the administrative nightmare of dealing with Social Security’s earnings penalty rules. So now let’s look at today’s question and how I suggest that slightly bending those rules can save you a lot of heartache.

I am 63 and have been getting Social Security benefits since last year. I have just been offered a job as a courtesy shuttle driver for a local car dealership. I am really not sure yet how many hours I will work. But I am pretty sure I will make about $20,000 or more this year. How do I go about stopping my Social Security checks?

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Severely injured veterans with serviceconnected disabilities can now get reproductive treatments from the Department of Veterans Affairs as part of their benefits package. The biggest bonus DR. ROACH WRITES: I wrote a column will be in vitro fertilization (IVF), which had been on cracked fingertips a while back, and received a banned until now. wealth of suggestions from readers. ANSWER: Thyroid conditions, including Additionally, there will be fertility counseling both hyper(too much) and hypo(too little) thyroid and treatments (assisted reproductive technologies, For prevention, some suggestions I liked hormone are common in the general population, or ART) for the spouses of those veterans. The included avoiding too-hot water for handwashing, but more so in people who are diagnosed with a antibacterial soaps and wool gloves, all of which addition of IVF will be a huge step forward for wide variety of psychiatric illnesses, including decan remove protective oils from your fingers. A huveterans who were injured by explosions, leaving pression, anxiety and bipolar disorder. I have read midifier in the house can prevent drying of all the them unable to procreate due to genitourinary or that up to a third of people in new admissions for skin. spinal cord injury. psychiatric conditions have thyroid abnormalities. Until now, the VA has provided certain It isn’t always clear whether the thyroid problem Home-treatment remedies included flaxservices and treatments, limited to counseling, blood caused the psychiatric illness, and probably most seed oil or B vitamins by mouth. (I don’t know if testing, surgical correction, medication, diagnostics often there is a large combination of factors, includthese are effective, but they should be safe.) 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