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You’ve written in past columns that the SSI program is not a Social Security benefit. But my sister is getting SSI. And when she gets letters about her payments, they come from the Social Security office. So how can you say SSI has nothing to do with Social Security?

To answer your question, let me give you a little history lesson. Back before 1973, each state, and sometimes even each county, had its own welfare program for low-income elderly and disabled people. Because there were literally hundreds of such programs around the country, there were wildly different eligibility factors and payment levels. It was not uncommon for an indigent senior citizen in one place to be denied welfare benefits, while just over the county or state line, someone who was better off financially was able to qualify for monthly checks from his or her local welfare office. Congress thought this was unfair. So in 1973 they decided to nationalize the welfare programs for poor folks over age 65 and for people with disabilities who were down on their luck. There would be one set of eligibility rules that would apply to everyone no matter where they lived. There would also be one standard federal payment level -- although they did include provisions that would allow states to add a few bucks to the federal payment if the state wanted to be a little more generous. Then Congress had to figure out who would run the new federal welfare program. They decided the Social Security Administration was ideProof: allyAd suited for the task. SSA already had a network of Bram’s field offices around the country. And there was more than a little bit of overlap in the beneficiary 1/12th page, B&W, 26x rate ($99.00/wk) pool for both programs. (In other words, Congress Jan. 15 27,the 2017 • Vol. #3 - Social 27 figured that- aJuly lot of poorer folks13: getting Security benefits might qualify for some extra help --(Every Other Week)-from the new program.) Congress also had to figure out what to call the new federal welfare program. And they came up with the name “Supplemental Security Income.”

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On the one hand, it was a good name, because the program did just what its moniker implied: it “supplemented” someone’s “income” up to various levels in order to provide them with some form of financial “security.” But on the other hand, it was a poor choice for a name because everyone assumed, especially given the fact that the Social Security Administration ran the program, that it was just a new kind of Social Security benefit. After all, Supplemental Security Income, managed by the Social Security Administration, sure does sound like some kind of supplemental Social Security benefit. So here we are, almost a half-century later, and people are still confused. If my emails are any indication, I will bet that at least three-fourths of the people in this country think that SSI is a Social Security benefit. So let me repeat for maybe the one-thousandth time in this column: Supplemental Security Income is a federal welfare program that just happens to be managed by the Social Security Administration. It is NOT a Social Security benefit and it is NOT funded by Social Security taxes. The money to pay the benefits comes out of the government’s general funds. And SSA is even reimbursed from the general funds for the administrative time it takes to run the SSI program. And to reiterate this point, SSI stands for Supplemental Security Income. It does NOT stand for Social Security Income. Every single day, I get emails from readers who tell me, “I am getting SSI,” when they really mean they are getting Social Security.

for those benefits at 62? Or can she wait until she is 66 to claim a higher amount? How does she go about claiming those benefits? And finally, if she gets those Social Security benefits, won’t they just take that money away from her SSI?

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The Department of Veterans Affairs has announced a 30-day surge, a concentrated effort to ANSWER: We don’t really know if they end veteran homelessness. This is a noble effort, are effective, since well-done studies haven’t yet especially since a previous goal was to end veteran proven it; however, preliminary evidence is sughomelessness in 2015, using such programs as the gestive. This would be a great addition to treatMayors Challenge to End Veteran Homelessness. DEAR DR. ROACH: I know you’re not ment, since the only currently accepted highly Still, the statistics say the rate of veteran a psychiatrist, but I hope you can help. My effective treatments are oral medications, which homelessness came down 17 percent between 2015 dad was a single parent raising us kids, and have risk of liver damage. Even more excitand 2016. he was always clean when it came to houseing is the idea of combining a topical antifungal VA Secretary Robert McDonald wants to work. Every room in our house was almost agent, amorolfine, with laser. This medication is challenge the VA and partners to pull together all spotless. not available in the U.S., but a study in Korea their resources to get veterans into permanent showed a 50 percent effectiveness rate (which is But lately, we have noticed him behousing. pretty good for this difficult-to-treat condition). coming a hoarder and being more disorga This surge came from an idea used in nized. By that, I mean keeping weeks-old Since I last wrote about this condition, Tampa, Florida, which held its own “Operation newspapers on the floor, on the kitchen table, I heard from a lot of readers. Some mentioned Reveille” with great success. The one-day event everywhere, and he gets upset if we try to cures from Vicks Vapo-Rub, but the only study sought homes for as many veterans as possible. help him clean. He’s 79. Could it be a sign of I found on that showed a 22 percent cure rate. Tampa modeled its program after the Stand Down, senility or Alzheimer’s disease? -- R.S. One person asked about surgery, but since the where veterans can access health care, get clothing, fungus gets into the nail bed, the infection ofask about support services -- and get housing ANSWER: Hoarding behavior can have ten recurs after removing the nail. Listerine and assistance -- all in one place. several psychiatric causes, and, indeed, a psywhite vinegar mixed half and half cured one The goals for this new surge are to get chiatrist may be necessary to make the diagnocouple, and several people had success with Dr. veterans into permanent housing over the next sis. However, odds are that your dad always had Paul’s Piggy Paste, which also is vinegar-based. 60 days; use the HUD-Veterans Affairs Supportive some form of obsessive-compulsive disorder, None of these has good data to support its use, and with age has become worse. Housing (HUD-VASH) vouchers, which provide 1-31-17 but all likely are safe. for case management and clinical services; be *** There are other possibilities. Fronto-temDr. Roach regrets that he is unable to answer indisure all veteran-allocated housing is filled; use all poral dementia, a type of dementia that is distinct vidual letters, but will incorporate them in the column residential program beds; help get veterans off the whenever possible. Readers may email questions to from Alzheimer’s disease, has a variant in which streets immediately; and approach landlords about ToYourGoodHealth@med.cornell.edu. To view and orpersonality and behavior changes are prominent, der health pamphlets, visit www.rbmamall.com, or write veteran housing. but given the history of what sounds like unusual to Good Health, 628 Virginia Drive, Orlando, FL 32803. 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that was given to me by my aunt about 40 years ago. She has blue eyes and is wearing a red hood, a white dress with flowers on the hem, a white apron trimmed with red and red shoes. On her right arm is a yellow basket. The jar stands about 13 inches tall and is in mint condition. I have fond memories of seeing her on my aunt’s kitchen counter when I was a child in the 1940s and ‘50s. I am 80 years old now, and she has a special place on a shelf in my kitchen, where I can see her ever y day. Anything you can tell me about my cookie jar will be appreciated.

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Enclosed is a photo of a porcelain saltshaker and pepper grinder set that belonged to my mother. Marked on the bottom of the saltshaker is an “L” in a wreath above the words “Lenox -- Made in U S A.” There is also a paper label with the words “Hand Decorated with 24 K Gold.” Both the shaker and the grinder are approximately 8 inches tall and in perfect condition. They are decorated with a tan and blue design, and gold trim. I am wondering whether this set has any special value today. Could you tell me?

Hull Pottery made your Little Red Riding Hood cookie jar. The pottery was founded by A. E. Hull in 1905 in Crooksville, Ohio. Louise Bauer designed the Little Red Riding Hood cookie jars, as well as the grease containers and salt and pepper shakers. Hull Pottery made cookies jars from 1943 to 1957. After experiencing setbacks due to union strikes and an influx of inexpensive foreign imports, the pottery closed in 1986. Your cookie jar would probably worth $125 to $150. * * * Address your questions to Anne McCollam, P. O. Box 247, Notre Dame, IN 46556. Items of a general interest will be answered in this column. Due to the volume of inquiries, she cannot answer individual letters. To find out more about Anne McCollam and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate website at www. creators.com.

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Clemson, Won and Done Chances are, if you ever spend a little time at Angelo’s Fairmount Tavern in Atlantic City, you will run into the odd Dallas Cowboys fan. They can be found at the bar or found in the restaurant proper, drinking house wine and shoveling in plates of pasta underneath the watchful eyes of all the sports memorabilia on the walls. “I’ve alllwaaays been a Cowboys fan,” is the familiar refrain. Nobody knows why this is, however. Is it because of Roger Staubach? Tom Landry? The handsome star on their helmets? The cheerleaders? What is it about this team that makes guys like Gov. Chris Christie go to their home games at the taxpayers’ expense and hug on Jerry Jones while wearing orange sweaters? Atlantic City is the kind of place that will forgive you if you are a Philadelphia fan. They may even forgive you if you like the New York Mets. But when you’re rooting for teams from South Carolina and Alabama, is that where you draw the line? Here’s a guy from Galloway who changed his Facebook profile picture to the Alabama Crimson Tide logo. Why? “I love Nick Saban,” he says. OK. What does he love about jolly ol’ Nick? “He’s on the Bill Parcells coaching tree,” he responds. Turns out the guy is a high-school football coach. The whole coaching tree thing is a popular trend for fans, and apparently, coaches these days. So really, Coach? The love of Parcells extends all the way to Alabama? Have you ever visited that state? Ever left Atlantic County? “Never thought of it like that,” he says, deleting his profile picture. “Yeah ... kind of weird that a whole place is cheering on South Carolina and Alabama.” Not to be a contrarian, but I disagree again. We’re not so much cheering on South Carolina as we are cheering on a great game. “And this is a great game,” he says in agreement. One day removed from the Giants’ kind of lame loss to Green Bay (yes, he’s wearing a jersey), it’s as if college football made everything right in the world again. The game goes into the waning minutes, and it’s like the best heavyweight fight you’ve ever seen. Clemson scores. Alabama scores. There’s one second left on the clock and Clemson is on the 2-yard line. Every single person is in rapt attention, all eyes on the TV screen. Deshaun Watson wins the game. He is the living embodiment of “Rocky II.” The entire restaurant erupts in exhilaration. We have seen football future, and its name is Deshaun. This kid can flatout play. The tabs start getting paid. Vegas, it is said, took a huge loss on the game. Nobody feels bad ... they’re already looking forward to the next game. “Think Dallas can beat Green Bay?” That’s why they play the game, right?

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• Some proper names have been shortened over the years to abbreviated versions of the original nouns. For example, the word “napron” became “an apron” and “nauger” became “an auger”; and “an ekename” meaning “an additional name” became “a nickname.” Likewise, some given names have also transformed. “Mine Edward,” for example, has shortened to Ned; “mine Ellen” to Nell, and “mine Ann” to Nan. • “Buttonhole” was originally “buttonhold.” “Sparrow-grass” became “asparagus.” “Shamefaced” evolved from “shamefast” as in “stuck fast.” “Kitty corner” or “catty corner” was once “catercorner” from the French word “quartre” meaning “four,” as in four corners in a room.

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• While the word “ruthless” once had a companion word “ruth” meaning compassion, Tidbits leaves you now with some curious things to ponder: We have “inept,” “disheveled,” “incorrigible,” and “unkempt” but we don't have “ept” or “sheveled” or “corrigible” or “kempt.” Can you ever have a kit without a caboodle? Or a beck without a call, a cranny without a nook, or a spic without a span? Where are all the guilty bystanders and the normal bedfellows? Why are all swoops of the ‘fell’ variety? Where are all the people who are combobulated, gruntled, chalant, ruly, gainly, or peccable? And why can’t there ever be just one smithereen? 

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There might not be a more frustrating comment from golf analysts and commentators than, “He must have decelerated on that chip!” I simply cringe when I hear that being said because it typically has nothing to do with a mishit chip around the green. Worse yet, every member guest is full of the same comments when their buddy just cost them a hole. To prove my point that acceleration and deceleration have little to do with effective chipping, try hitting a few chips with your bag about a couple feet in front of your ball. Hit the ball and ground but don’t hit the bag!

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