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I have lived and worked in the United States for the past 15 years. But I was born in Great Britain and worked there for about 30 years before moving to the states. I am 66 years old and about to retire. I get a British Social Security pension and just applied for my American Social Security benefits. Before I did so, the estimates the Social Security Administration mailed me said I would get about $900 per month. But when I filed my claim, the agent at my local SSA office told me I would get only $450. He said this is because I was double dipping, and the law didn’t allow me to do this. I think this is totally unfair. I paid into both social insurance systems and think I should get full benefits from both. I plan to appeal. Can you help me?

You can appeal if you want, but you are not going to win your case -- and I will explain why. The Social Security agent misled you by using the term “double dipping.” That is not why your U.S. Social Security benefit will be reduced. It will be reduced because, without the reduction, you would be getting an unintended windfall in retirement benefits. And the law that applies to you is called the windfall elimination provision. To understand the reasoning behind the law, I’ve got to explain something about our Social Security retirement system. There are social goals that have been built into that system since the program began in 1935. One of those goals is to help raise the standard of living for poorer people when they retire. And the way that is done is with a retirement benefit formula skewed in their favor. That formula gives poorer people a better deal, or more appropriately, a higher rate of return, than is paid to wealthier people. And when I am talking about a “rate of return,” I am talking about comparing their Social Security benefit to their average pre-retirement income. This formula can best be expressed in terms of percentages. A poor person could potentially get a Social Security benefit that represents up to 90 percent of his or her average wage. A well-to-do person will get significantly less -- maybe in the 25 percent range. The rich person is still going to get a much higher Social Security benefit because 25 percent of his or her income is way more than 90 percent of the poor person’s income. But still, the poor person gets a better deal out of Social Security. The return rate payable to the average person, a typical middle-class worker, is in the 40 percent range. So he or she can expect to get a Social Security retirement check that represents about 40 percent of his or her pre-retirement income. So now I will get to the “windfall” that you are getting. All Social Security retirement benefits are based on a 35-year base of earnings. You said you worked in this country for only 15 years. So there are 20 years of “zero” earnings on your Social Security record. When your Social Security benefit is initially tallied up, Social Security computers think you are poor because of all those no earning years. So they initially give you a benefit rate intended for a poor person, with something close to the 90 percent return rate. Those computers don’t know that you are not really poor. They don’t know that you spent all those years working in another country and earning a retirement pension from that country. That’s why the benefit estimate letters you received prior to filing for

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sets any spousal benefits she would be due. benefits had the higher benefit rate. Mary is a retired teacher in California. She But once you actually filed for benefits and told the Social Security people that you spent all those never paid into Social Security, but she gets a Caliyears working in England and earning a British re- fornia teacher’s retirement pension of $3,900 per tirement pension, they then used the windfall elimina- month. Her husband, Frank, did work and pay into Social Security, and he gets $2,100 per month in retion provision formula to refigure your benefit. In other words, that $900 monthly benefit tirement benefits. Mary can’t get spousal benefits on rate you were quoted in the letters was based on the Frank’s Social Security record because her teacher’s 90 percent, or poor person’s rate of return. But again, retirement benefit offsets it. But for some reason that I can’t explain, you are not poor. You are a middle-class person and should get the same rate of return that all middle- there is a loophole in that offset law for foreign penYou are going to be able to PROOF get your Canadian class people in this country get. So that $450 monthly sions. ADVERTISING retirement pension and a full dependent benefit you will actually receive was based on the Fri., 4/22/16 husband’s Final Changes DUE: 5:00 p.m.. WEP formula that gives you the same 40 percent re- benefit from the U.S. Social Security system. So go Please review carefully. Double check:  Phone Number(s)  Spelling  Prices  Hours ahead and jump through that big loophole. But I just turn rate that all average Americans get. Contact your think Tidbits it’s representative don’t right. immediately with changes or corrections. Office: 760-320-0997 I am a Canadian citizen who moved * * *Fax: 760-320-1630 If you have a Social Security question, Tom Marto the United States in 2010. About two years ago I married a woman who is a U.S. citizen. We genau has the answer. Contact him at thomas.margenau@ are both 66. She just filed for Social Security comcast.net. To find out more about Tom Margenau and to read past columns and see features from other Creators Synand will get $2,800 per month. My Canadian dicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate Social Security pension is $3,200 per month. website at www.creators.com. Am I able to claim husband’s benefits on my COPYRIGHT 2016 CREATORS.COM wife’s U.S. Social Security record? When my wife filed for her Social Security, the representative she talked to said no. But I know of other Canadians living here who do get spousal benefits from Social Security.

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DEAR DR. ROACH: My relative is a 69-year-old who has smoked for 55 years. She has a terrible cough. I want her to cover her mouth with a hankie or tissue when she coughs. The coughing can go on for a few minutes. She insists that she is not sick, and that it’s just allergies. I say she is spraying her sputum, and I might catch what she doesn’t know she has. -- S.B.

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Bicycles will no longer be allowed in Arlington National Cemetery, unless being ridden by people with family passes who are there to visit a loved one’s grave. Commuters, weekend exercis You need to be worrying about your rela DEAR DR. ROACH: Would you please ers and cycling clubs are no longer welcome. tive. With this degree of cough, it is very likely comment on chelation therapy? A urine test To which I give a big thumbs-up. that she has chronic obstructive pulmonary disfor mercury, lead and arsenic was done that Arlington National Cemetery holds upshowed abnormal elevations after I was given ease. What’s worse, a small number of smokers ward of 30 funerals a day. Some of these involve with a cough like this have lung cancer. In all DMSA. I also was prescribed a long list of probability, she is fooling herself that she has long streams of cars of attendees and escorts; vitamins and supplements. This testing and only allergies. She needs to quit smoking, now, treatment have caused me great confusion. some involve the military band or horses pulling and also get evaluated. -- Anon. a caisson. The last thing funeral-goers need is to have to navigate around cyclists, or have them The booklet on COPD explains in detail ANSWER: Chelation is the process of both emphysema and chronic bronchitis, the two whiz by during a funeral service. using a medication to rid toxic chemicals, espe Of course, cyclists were upset when the ADVERTISING PROOF elements of COPD. Readers can obtain a copy Ad Proof: cially the heavy metals you mention, from the news came out, and they started a petition, claimby writing: Dr. Roach -- No. 601W, Box 536475, body. DMSA is a chemical that binds to mercury Final Changes DUE: 5:00 p.m.. John Cuddihy - Flags “A” Flying don’t disrupt anything. The cemetery’s Orlando, FLcheck: 32853-6475. Enclose a check or  Pricesing they and lead, and is then excreted into the urine. Please review carefully. 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With everyone racking their brains about the perceived problem of shrinking NFL TV ratings, we now get to shift our focus to the flawed NCAA playoff rankings. But why stop there? There are plenty of things in the sporting world that need to be addressed. Here are a few I will toss out there: Seen in this photo is a chest that 1. Tim Tebow needs to try out for every belonged to my mother. When she gave it to major sport. This is a no-brainer. Everyone knows me, all she said was that she thought it was that Tim Tebow is a superior athlete and a virtumahogany and was made during the mid- to ous Christian. That is why he must always be late 20th centur y. The measurements are 31 set up for martyrdom, so we can talk about how inches wide, 21 inches deep and 30 inches teams don’t understand the righteous talent they high. The drawers are dovetailed, and the are sitting on. It doesn’t matter that he’s only hitpulls are solid brass. It is in mint condition. ting .149 for the Mets’ fall instructional league Anything you can tell me about the team, he probably sells more jerseys than most of style, maker, vintage and value will be apprethe Mets big-league players combined. Surely he ciated. could be a center on the Blue Jacket’s checking line, or a power forward for the Brooklyn Nets. It You have a reproduction of an 18th-cenmight hurt to watch, but that means it’s working. tury Queen Anne-style lowboy. The cabriole legs 2. Every NFL team has to wear black (or that end in pad feet, the dropped finials and the O. Box 247, Notre Dame, IN 46556. Items of a general pink). Studies show that teams wearing black are carved-shell center drawer are typical of this de- interest will be answered in this column. Due to the volume of inquiries, she cannot answer individual let- more aggressive. That study, no doubt commissign period. Queen Anne was the queen of England ters. 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