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Her 68-year-old husband just died. He was getting a full retirement age benefit of $1,750 from Social Security. Mary is retired and wants to start drawing Social Security. And her own full retirement rate is $2,150. Her reduced benefit at 62 would be 75 percent of that or about $1,612. Her reduced widow’s rate would be about 82 percent of her husband’s benefit, $1,435. So initially Mary might think it would be best to go with the higher $1,612 benefit on her own record. But she also has the option of taking her widow’s rate now. She would start out getting the $1,435 amount. Then at 66, she could switch to her full retirement rate of $2,150. Or if she can continue to live on the $1,435 widow’s benefit, she could wait until age 70 and get 132 percent of her full retirement rate, or $2,838. Today’s question comes from a woman whose situation doesn’t quite follow the kind highlighted in the OIG report. But it still is an example of a widow who was steered in the wrong direction by an SSA representative.

Last year, the Social Security Administration’s Office of the Inspector General completed an audit and issued a report critical of how the agency handled claims from widows. It said that SSA clerks were doing a poor job of informing widows that they had the option of taking widow’s benefits at 66 and delaying starting their own benefits until 70 -I am a 78-year-old widow. My at which point they would get a 32 percent “delayed husband died when he was 42 and I was 40. retirement credit” added to their checks. I never remarried. Even though I was still Based on a rather small sample of 50 benworking, I went to the Social Security office eficiaries, OIG estimated that about 9,000 women when I was 66. I wanted to file for widow’s nationwide would have been eligible for a higher benefits. The Social Security agent told me monthly benefit amount had they delayed their rethat because my husband had been dead for tirement application for their own benefits until age so long, they no longer had his records. He 70. advised me to file on my own record, which I SSA officials essentially agreed with the did. This has bothered me for years. Recently, report. The inspector general recommended the I saw a column you wrote telling a widow to do agency fix the situation for those 50 beneficiaries just what I was told I couldn’t do. Now I wonused as examples in the report, remind employder if I can get my widow’s benefits added to ees to discuss the option of delaying benefits with my own retirement. Could I get your thoughts widows and widowers, and determine whether it on this? should develop additional controls to ensure employees inform people of their options. I am afraid you were sadly and regret Before I go on, I want to make something tably misled by that Social Security clerk 12 years crystal clear. Even though the numbers in the OIG ago. The Social Security Administration has rereport sound big, there are about 6 million women cords for everyone in the country going back to getting widow’s benefits, and almost all of them are 1935. So to be told that your husband’s records no being paid correctly. For example, the report is not longer existed was not only wrong but downright talking about the vast majority of women who beshameful. ADVERTISING PROOF come widows later in life -- in their late 60s or 70s Friday, Nov. 16, 2018 This would be a good time to re-emphasize p.m. nal Changes 5:00 or beyond. DUE: Whatever widow’s benefits they 12:00 might p.m.. w carefully. Double check:  Phone Number(s)  Spelling  Prices  Hours be getting are rather simply figured (simple for t your Tidbits representative immediately with changes or corrections. SSA’s computers, I mean) and there are Fax: no deci760-320-0997 email: valleybits@msn.com 760-320-1630 sions about their own retirement benefits that need to be made. The report is talking about women who become widows generally before age 66 and who Nordstrom, Steele, Nicolette & Blythe have a high enough benefit on their own work re12ththat page, Full Color, 26x Discount Rate 1. The book of Deuteronomy is in the the you cord need ansoattorney as a possibility result of a of delaying their retireNov. 25, 2018 May 19, 2019 rious personal injury, there are certain a) Old Testament b) New Testament ment benefits until age 70 becomes attractive. ngs you should consider.Vol. 14: #48 - Vol. 15: #21 c) Neither Here’s an example. Mary is 62 years old.

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a point I’ve made hundreds of times in this column. If you ever have any doubt about your possible eligibility for some kind of Social Security benefit, or if you just don’t feel comfortable with the information an SSA representative is giving you, always insist on filing a claim. You have every right to do so. And by filing an actual claim, you will get a formal and legal decision about your eligibility. You will not have to settle for some clerk’s opinion on the matter. It’s just too bad you probably weren’t reading my column 12 years ago. Had you insisted on filing a widow’s claim, you would have received those benefits until you were 70, and when you could have switched to 132 percent of your own retirement benefit. But I’m afraid that is all water under the bridge. You asked if you could now get your widow’s benefits added to your own retirement checks. And I’m sorry, but the answer is no. When you are due two benefits, you get the one that pays the higher rate, not both. And because you worked until past age 70, I’m sure your own benefit exceeds what you would be due as a widow. So what can you do now? Normally, I would just tell you that it’s too late. Appeal rights usually end two months after a decision is rendered. In other words, when your retirement benefits were granted to you back at age 66, you would have had 60 days to challenge that decision. But you were ripped off to the tune of probably tens of thousands of dollars due to negligence. I suggest you go to your local SSA office. Demand to speak to the manager. Tell him or her your story. And mention that you heard that SSA’s inspector general recently issued a report chastising the agency for shortchanging widows like you. Ask him or her if the agency has any plans to take care of women like you, and not just the 50 or so women who were identified in the study. I’m pretty sure there is nothing they can do. But I still think you should ruffle their feathers a bit! * * * If you have a Social Security question, Tom Margenau has the answer. Contact him at thomas.margenau@comcast.net. To find out more about Tom Margenau and to read past columns and see features from other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate website at www.creators.com.

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with pastel flowers and berries and is in perfect condition. The height is 6 inches, and the diameter is 7 inches. It has been in our family for many years, and my teenage daughter recently asked me what it is used for, how old it is and where it was made. I told her I don’t know anything about its background. I hope you can fill in the blanks. * On Feb. 1, 1887, Harvey Wilcox officially registers “Hollywood” with the Los AngeThe Ceramic Art les County recorder’s office. Wilcox and his Company was by Anne McCollam wife bought 160 acres of land in the foothills founded in 1894. west of Los Angeles. They envisioned it as MON., JAN. 7 the perfect site for a utopian-like community for devout Christians, where they could live a canNumber(s) be used for either  Prices Please review carefully. Double Your check:pitcher  Phone  Spelling  Hours highly moral life free of vices such as alcohol. lemonade or cider and was made by The Ceramic Contact yourArt Tidbits representative immediately with Company in Trenton, New Jersey. Thechanges firm wasor corrections. * On Jan. 29, 1936, the Baseball Hall of founded in 1894 and became part of the Lenox ChiOffice: 760-320-0997 email: valleybits@msn.com Fax: 760-320-1630 Fame elects its first members in Cooper I have enclosed a photo of a Zippo na Company in 1906. stown, New York: Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth, Hocigarette lighter that belonged to my grand * * * nus Wagner, Christy Matthewson and Walter Address your questions to Anne McCollam, P. father. We found it when going through my Johnson. O. Box 247, Notre Dame, IN 46556. Items of a general grandparents’ things after they passed away. interest will Computer be answered Services in this column. Due to the volRichard Bigley & Repair * On Jan. 31, 1950, President Harry TruIt is a rectangular shape, measures 1.5 by ume of inquiries, she cannot answer individual letters. To 1/16 pg BW 26x Disc. man announces his decision to support de2 inches and has a brushed surface. On the find out more about Anne McCollam and read features Januaryby13, 2019 Vo. 15 No. 3 velopment of the hydrogen bomb. On Nov. other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit front is my grandfather’s name, Jim. On the 1, 1952, the United States successfully the Creators Syndicate website at www.creators.com. bottom are the words “Zippo -- Bradford -detonated “Mike,” the world’s first hydrogen COPYRIGHT 2018 CREATORS.COM Pa. -- III.” I’m not sure how long he had the ADVERTISING PROOF bomb, on the Elugelab Atoll in the Pacific lighter. I just remember seeing it when I was a Final Changes DUE: 5:00 p.m.. Marshall Islands. child. Please review carefully. Double check:  Phone Number(s)  Spelling  Prices  Hours We are curious about its histor y, makerContact your Tidbits representative immediately with changes or corrections. * On Feb. 3, 1966, the Soviet Union makes  Windows and Mac the first controlled landing on the moon, when and if it has any value as a collectible. Office: 760-320-0997 email:valleybits@msn.com Fax: 760-320-1630 Desktop and Laptop Service its unmanned spacecraft Lunik 9 touches  System installs & Upgrades down on the Ocean of Storms. After a soft  Printer & Router Setup In the summer of 1932, George G. landing, it began transmitting images back to  System Optimization Blaisdell was on the terrace at the Bradford Coun Resolve Browser Issues Earth. try Club in Brad Microsoft Office Training ford, Pennsylvania.  iPhone & iPad Assistance * On Feb. 2, 1970, antiwar protestors file He watched a fellow I’ve retired after more than 30 years corposuit against the Dow Chemical Company in rate software experience. Now I’m ready to use member attempting a Washington, D.C., court in an attempt to my professional expertise to help nice folks like prove that it is still making napalm, a jelly-like to light his cigarette you solve your computer problems. Call me! -- Richard Bigley gasoline used in bombs during the Vietnam with a two-piece War. Dow had lost its government contract to Richard Bigley lighter that was REASONABLE Computer Service & Repair produce napalm in June 1969. Property of RATES! made in Austria.

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