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if she marries husband No. 2, she can no longer be classified as a dependent of husband No. 1. And I should make it crystal clear that if this divorced woman were getting her own Social Security checks, those benefits would not stop if she got married.

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I have heard that if two seniors each getting their own Social Security benefits get married, they will suffer a reduction in their benefits and the female member of that couple could lose her benefits entirely. Several of my friends have confirmed that this is a fact. Can you confirm this?

I am 62. My husband is 60. I am already retired and want to start my Social Security now. My husband plans to work until he is 66 and start his Social Security then. My husband makes three times the money I do, so his Social Security check will be much higher than mine. My coffee club friends have told me that if I take my Social Security now, I will never be able to get any spousal benefits from my husband. Is this true?

That is absolutely not true! Assuming his benefit is so much greater than yours that the spousal percentage you are due on his account exceeds what you are getting on your own, then you will be paid a wife’s benefit to supplement your own. Here is roughly how they will determine what you are due: Once your husband files for his own Social Security and you file a spousal claim, they will take your full retirement rate and subtract that from one-half of his full retirement rate. Any difference will be added to your reduced retirement benefit.

happens, you are going to get your retirement benefit supplemented up to 100 percent of your husband’s Social Security check. Here is a quick example: Let’s say you are getting $1,400 per month in reduced retirement benefits and your husband’s monthly check is $2,200. He dies when you are 68 years old. You will keep getting your own $1,400, and then you will start getting $800 per month in widow’s benefits to take you up to his $2,200 level.

My wife and I are both 80. Her Social Security is $2,449. Mine is $2,178. A friend told me that if my wife dies first, I won’t get any of her Social Security because men don’t qualify for widower’s benefits. True?

That is absolutely not true! Social Security laws and eligibility requirements are genderneutral. If your wife dies first, you will keep getting your $2,178, and then you will get $271 in widower’s benefits to take you up to her $2,449 level.

I will be 66 next month. My husband is 73 and has been getting Social Security for years now. Based on what I’ve read in your column, I was going to “file and restrict,” claiming spousal benefits on my husband’s record and saving my own until age 70. But the clerk at my local Social Security office told me I can’t do that. She said the law that allowed that was eliminated a couple of years ago. Is that a fact?

I am 64. My husband is 70 and That is absolutely not true! Whether already getting Social Security. Several of my you are married or not, whether you might get marThat is absolutely not true! I am alfriends have told me that if I take my own So- ried or not, has no affect on your own Social Secucial Security early, I will never be able to get ways saddened to learn that the false information rity retirement checks. Period. End of discussion. full widow’s benefits on my husband’s record. seniors get doesn’t just come from friends and I think this rumor grows out of an old (and neighbors; it sometimes comes from Social SecuriIs that true? now extinct) law that said if a woman who was getty Administration representatives. And I’ve learned ting survivor benefits from a deceased husband’s That is absolutely not true! What you over the years that many of them are grievously un account remarried, she would lose those widow’s do on your own Social Security record has no affect dertrained when it comes to these so-called maxichecks. Even though that law was changed about on any widow’s benefits you might be due in the mizing strategies. 30 years ago, the rumor still persists that if a widow I think the case manager you were talkfuture. For all intents and purposes, your widow’s remarries, she will lose her prior husband’s Social rate depends on one thing only: your age when ing to was mixing an apple with an orange. There Security. What the law has said for 25 three decades MON., SEPT. “file and suspend” your husband dies and you start taking widow’s was one strategy called TUES., MARCH 26 that wasNOO now is that if a woman remarries after age 60, she Assuming you are over age 66 when that eliminated a few years ago. (I’m not going to bothbenefits. efully. Double check:  Phone Number(s)  Spelling  Prices  Hours can continue to get widow’s benefits from a prior Please review carefully.erDouble check:  Phone Number(s)  Spelling  Price explaining what that was because it’s gone.) But husband. r Tidbits representative immediately with changes or corrections. the strategy you want to employ, “file and restrict,” Contact your Tidbits representative immediately with changes or correct Having all that, I can think of oneFax: time 760-320-1630 20-0997 email:said valleybits@msn.com is still available to anyone who turns 66 before Jan. when a woman would lose benefits if she got marOffice: 760-320-0997 email: valleybits@msn.com Fax: 760-32 2, 2020. So march back into your local Social Securied. And that would be a woman who was getting rity office and demand to speak to someone who is benefits as a divorced spouse from a living ex-husfamiliar with these rules. band’s Social Security account. If she remarried, * * * odernthose Realdivorced Estate spousal Shop benefits would stop. And it If you have -a Real Social Estate Security question, Tom Mar1. The book of 2 Chronicles is in the Catherine Marcy 2 4Cmakes 13x disc sense to stop them. She was getting those genau has the answer. Contact him at thomas.margenau@ a) Old Testament b) New Testament 1/12 pg 4CTo-find - - out more about Tom Margenau visit the comcast.net. . 1, 2017 Vol. 13 - No. 40was considered to be finanbenefits because she c) Neither March 31, 2019 Vol. 15 - No. 14 Creators Syndicate website at www.creators.com. cially dependent on her prior husband. Obviously,

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his PSA was only 0.1 to 0.3 the first three years, and it rose only .3 more each year until 2015, when it was 2.7 recently. He is 83. He has been told he must have hormone treatment: shots, pills or both, by his VA provider, who is not a urologist and who says he should see one. M.D.

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Purple Heart recipients will start receiving one additional benefit in April -- priority processing DEAR DR. ROACH: I went through for initial disability claims. many tests for a cough that lasted for 30 Department of Veteran Affairs Secretary ANSWER: Rising PSA after cancer treatyears. No treatments worked. The only sign Robert Wilkie announced at a Senate subcommitment typically is due to cancer returning, not an my doctor could find was that my throat had tee meeting that beginning next month, Purple increase in normal prostate. However, that does Heart recipients will get priority processing when it scars from coughing that long. My allergy not mean that your friend “must” have treatcomes to getting their disability benefits on claims specialist had tried for years with all kinds of ment. Goals for cancer treatment in an 83-yearreceived on or after April 1. prescriptions, to no avail. This is in addition to existing medical benold man may be very different from those of a efits: No co-pays for medical care and priority treat20-year-old man. In his case, since it took about I am now living a normal life since a ment at VA hospitals, meaning that the veteran will 10 years to increase by 10 times, it may be a doctor prescribed tramadol (50 mg) twice a go into at least Group 3 when it comes to medical very long time before the probable cancer would day. What a relief. My wife, grown children, care. be large enough to bother him, and it requires friends and clients are happy. -- L.G. Outside the medical arena, Purple Heart skill and experience to determine whether treatrecipients don’t need to serve a certain length of ment, which can make quality of life worse, is ANSWER: I found only a single case time to get full education benefits. They’ll be able worthwhile. Many urologists would recommend report of tramadol being used for chronic cough, to shop on base and use the recreation areas startdeferring treatment until and unless he develops and it was effective in that patient. The authors ing next year. In some states, their children will be symptoms. advised further study on its use. eligible for free tuition at in-state colleges. When it comes to work, Purple Heart recipients are given a I certainly would recommend that he go Ad Proof: Tramadol is a pain medication distantly 10-point preference in hiring for government jobs. to seeJohn a urologist as his VA provider has recomrelated to codeine. Its abuse potential is low, but Cuddihy - Flags “A” Flying Under certain circumstances a Purple mended. 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This mark is on the bottom of a pitcher that I have. It is decorated with a scene of what appears to be two soldiers in a foxhole, and the background is tan. Below the scene are the words, “Well, if you know of a better 'ole, go to it,” and the name “Bruce Bairnsfather.” I am puzzled by the scene and the mark. Who was the maker? When was it made? Who were the “Girls of Staffordshire”? Does it have any value? I hope you can solve this myster y. by Anne McCollam

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I have enclosed a photo of a Japanese vase that sat on my grandmother’s mantle in the house I grew up in during the 1930s. There was another vase, but it was broken many years ago. It is decorated with Asian figures, raised white dots, pastel multicolored flowers and geometric shapes. The height is about 18 inches, the diameter is six inches, and it is in perfect condition. On the bottom is Japanese writing. I would Satsuma ware was made in Japan. appreciate it if you could tell me anything about our vase.

You have a Satsuma pottery tankard rather than a vase. A tankard is a tall slender pitcher, not to be confused with a round short pitcher. Satsuma ware was made as early as the 1600s in the Japanese province of Satsuma. A Japanese feudal lord attempted to conquer Korea and failed. He and his army captured 22 Korean potters. They returned to Japan, settled in the Satsuma region and were put to work in potteries. Early pieces were sparsely decorated and looked very different from those made in the late 1800s and early 1900s. In the mid-1800s, potters added human figures, raised enamels, moriage (white dots), more colors and gold trim. There were four periods of Satsuma design. The Edo period lasted from the 1600s to 1868; the Meiji period from the late 1800s to early 1900s; the Taisho period from 1912 to 1926; and the Showa period from 1926 to the present. Your tankard was made around 1900 and would probably be worth $145 to $225.

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The Girls of Staffordshire were decorators at Grimwades pottery company in the early 1900s.

Your patriotic pitcher was made by Grimwades Ltd. in Staffordshire, England. Edward and Sidney Grimwades established their pottery in 1900. By 1913, they operated five potteries and became one of the largest producers of earthenware in the Staffordshire area. The Girls of Staffordshire were the women who decorated the transferware scenes. The scene was inspired by the World War I cartoons of English artist and humorist, Bruce Bairnsfather. Your pitcher was made around 1917 and would probably be worth $175 to $225. * * *

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* On April 6, 1896, the Olympic Games, a long-lost tradition of ancient Greece, are reborn in Athens. King Georgios I of Greece and a crowd of 60,000 spectators welcomed athletes from 13 nations. * On April 4, 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. is shot to death at a hotel in Memphis, Tennessee. A single shot fired from a nearby motel by James Earl Ray struck King in the neck. The death of America’s leading civil-rights advocate sparked a wave of rioting around the country. * On April 2, 1972, silent film actor and filmmaker Charlie Chaplin prepares for his first voyage to the United States since 1952, when he was denied a re-entry visa amid questions about his leftist politics. Chaplin returned to accept an honorary Academy Award. * On April 3, 1996, at his cabin in Montana, Theodore John Kaczynski is arrested by FBI agents and accused of being the Unabomber, the elusive terrorist blamed for 16 mail bombs that killed three people and injured 23. “Unabomber” was an acronym for university, airline and bomber. * On April 5, 2000, Lee Petty, an early star of NASCAR, dies at the age of 86 in North Carolina. Lee Petty won more than 50 stock-car races during his career, including three NASCAR championships and the first Daytona 500, held in 1959. (c) 2019 Hearst Communications, Inc.

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