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My husband died in 2009. I continued working until I was 62 in 2013. I then started drawing widow’s benefits. In Februar y of this year, when I turned 66, I went to the Social Security office to apply for my own benefits. I thought I could get both retirement and widow’s benefits. But they told me no. They said I could only receive my own benefit because it was higher. Is this correct? It doesn’t seem fair. By the way, I was getting $1,870 in widow’s benefits until I switched to $2,120 in my own retirement.

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that matter, she should get her own Social Security and get a wife’s benefits on my record. The Social Security system would go broke tomorrow if everybody in the country got both their own Social Security benefit and a spousal benefit. And now let me tell you about the option I hinted about earlier. Instead of switching to your own retirement benefits at 66, you might have been better off waiting until age 70 to make that switch. By waiting that long, you would be due a total of 32 percent in “delayed retirement credits.” In other words, instead of getting 100 percent of your benefit at age 66, or the $2,120 you mentioned, you would get 132 percent at 70, or almost $2,800. And it’s not too late for you to make that switch. The law allows you to change your mind and withdraw your claim up to six months after you filed. You are still within that six-month window. In other words, you could withdraw your retirement claim and switch back to your widow’s benefits. You would have to repay the difference between those rates, or $250, for the four months you’ve already received your own benefit. So you’d have to write a check for $1,000 as part of the withdrawal process. And if you think you can live on that $1,870 widow’s benefits for the next four years, you’d then start getting a $2,800 retirement check with the extra credits. You will just have to sit down with a good calculator and do the math and decide if it’s worth it.

We have an interesting situation. I am a 64-year-old widower. My wife is a 66-year-old widow. We have been married for two years. I am getting widower’s benefits off my first wife’s record (she was the higher wage earner) and my current wife is getting widow’s benefits from her first husband. But her benefit rate is ver y low because she didn’t work and her first husband spent most of his life in England and didn’t work ver y long in this countr y. Can I continue getting widower’s benefits until age 70, and then switch to 132 percent of my own? And can my current wife switch to spousal benefits on my record?

You do have an unusual Social Security situation. And before I answer your questions, I must explain to my readers why you are each getting widow’s benefits from prior spouses even though you are married to each other. Normally, a marriage to a new spouse would end any entitlement you might have to Social Security benefits from a prior spouse. But the law says if you are getting benefits as a widow(er) and get married after age 60 (which you did), then you can keep the benefits you are getting from your first spouses. The answer to both your questions is yes. You could wait until age 70 to make the switch to your own retirement benefits. And your wife can get spousal benefits on your record. But here is the deal. She would not be able to make the switch to wife’s benefits on your account until you are drawing benefits yourself. So if you wait until age 70, she’d have to wait until you are 70, too (when she’ll be 72). Another option would be for you to take your own retirement benefits now. Then your wife could switch to spousal benefits right away. Just as I explained to the widow in the first answer, you will have to get out your calculator to run the numbers and decide what to do. * * * If you have a Social Security question, Tom

It is correct. And I believe you’ll think it’s fair once I explain it to you. Also, at the end of my answer, I’m going to give you another Social Security option that’s available to you. As a general rule, if you are due two Social Security benefits, you don’t get them both. You only get the one that pays the higher rate. Although frequently a widow will get benefits off of two records, if her own benefit is less than her husband’s. For example, let’s switch your benefit rates. Let’s say you were due $1,870 in retirement benefits and 1. The Book of Jonah is in the a) Old Test$2,120 in widow’s benefits. In that case, they would ment b) New Testament c) Neither pay your own $1,870 benefit first. Then they would give you $250 in widow’s benefit to take you up to 2. From Job 4, who was so frightened by a your husband’s $2,120 rate. In other words, you’re dream that his hair stood on end? a) Job Margenau has the answer. Contact him at thomas.martechnically getting benefits off of two accounts. In b) Eliphaz c) Ehud d) Agamemnon genau@comcast.net. To find out more about Tom Marreality, you’re really just getting a widow’s benefit genau and to read past columns and see features from rate of $2,120. 3. After beating his mule, who confessed to other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit But in your case, your own benefit exceeds the Creators Syndicate website at www.creators.com. an angel that he had sinned? a) Ezekiel what you are due on your husband’s account, so COPYRIGHT 2017 CREATORS.COM b) Samuel c) Balaam d) Eleazar you simply get your own higher retirement benefit. As far as the fairness of getting only the 4. From Genesis 19, who escaped to Zoar higher benefit, think of it this way: Benefits for upon hearing wicked cities were going to be spouses and widows(ers) are legally considered destroyed? a) Gomorrah b) Elijah c) Lot PROOF “dependent” benefits. You normally would get a ADVERTISING d) Shimei SPEC Final Changes DUE: 5:00 p.m.. spousal benefit only if you were financially depenPlease review carefully. Double check:  Phone Number(s)  Spelling  Prices  Hours dent on your husband. But you had your own job. 5. Who had to parade his eight sons before a Contact representative immediately with changes or corrections. And it must have been a better paying job than your your Tidbits prophet, as found in 1 Samuel? a) Aaron Office: 760-320-0997 Fax: 760-320-1630 husband had because you get a bigger Social Seb) Jacob c) Naboth d) Jesse curity benefit. So you were not dependent on him while you were working. And now that you are 6. From Exodus 14, whose chariots were lost retired and getting your own higher retirement Windsor Court Assisted b) Living in the Red Sea? a) Solomon Pharoah check, you shouldn’t be due any dependent benBanner Ad, 4c, 26x rate c) Aaron d) Joshua efits. Pool (Answers on page 16) Or here is another way to think of that. If the government paid you both your own and your For comments or more Bible Trivia go to husband’s benefits, then every other married perwww.TriviaGuy.com son in the country should be able to claim the same. 2017 KKing ing Features Syndicate Inc. © 2015 Features Synd.,, Inc. I should get my own Social Security and I should get husband’s benefits on my wife’s record. And for

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getting yourself an earlier repeat colonoscopy, your risk is very small, and if you trust the doctor who did the colonoscopy, you should get your repeat in 10 years. READERS: Some 140,000 people are diagnosed with colon cancer in the U.S each year. The booklet on colon cancer provides useful information on its causes, symptoms and treatments. To order a copy, write: Dr. Roach -- No. 505W, 628 Virginia Drive, Orlando, FL 32803. Enclose a check or money order (no cash) for $4.75 U.S./$6 Canada with the recipient’s printed name and address. Please allow four weeks for delivery. ***

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On April 27, 2017, a presidential executive order gave the Department of Veterans Affairs 45 days to create a special office to protect whistleblowers and increase accountability. The VA managed to pull it off in 15 days, and the Office of Accountability and DEAR DR. ROACH: My husband, who Whistleblower Protection now is up and running. is 73 and otherwise in good health, had a DEAR DR. ROACH: My mother, 88 While short on text, the executive order is long colonoscopy in the summer of 2012 and was years old, recently switched her medicine for on potential impact. A few highlights: told that because no polyps or any problems hypertension from timed release, which she * The office is to help recruit, reward and retain were found, he did not need another test for has been taking for 10 years, to one that is high-performing employees; 10 years. This October, he was diagnosed * It will help identify statutory barriers to not timed release, because the timed release with stage 4 colon cancer, which has spread was too expensive. I’m worried. Has she com- disciplining or terminating any employee who has to the abdomen and omentum. He also had promised her health by doing this? Her cardi- done anything to jeopardize the health and safety of seven polyps removed during his latest exa veteran, and to report those barriers so they can be ologist gave her the go-ahead. -- J.R. amination. fixed via legislation; ANSWER: In my opinion, timed-release * It will act swiftly to resolve veterans’ My question is, How likely is it that versions for high blood pressure are preferable complaints of wrongdoing; such a virulent cancer could grow in such * And best of all: The new office will quickly to non-timed-release because the level of the a short time? 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I am downsizing and have to decide what to pitch and what to keep. Anything you can tell me about the maker, age and value will be greatly appreciated.

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This is a photo of Corningware stovetop coffee pot that I bought with green stamps in the 1970s. It stands 9 inches tall, makes nine cups of coffee and is decorated with the “Blue Cornflower” design. We hardly ever used it; it has been packed away for over 40 years. What can you tell me about it?

Corning Glass Works was located in Corning, New York, from 1868 to 1998. It produced Corningware and Pyrex. In 1958, it introduced Corningware products that were resistant to thermal extremes. The “Blue Cor nflower” design was the creation of designer Joseph Baum and became a favorite with consumers. It was available Corning introduced its “Blue Cornin a huge vari- flower” line in 1958. ety of pieces, including electric and stove top coffee percolators, pie plates, platters, tea pots, casseroles, butter dishes and skillets. Even though there were two recalls on the coffee percolators in the 1970s because the metal rims could come detached, they continue to be collectible. Collectors with concerns about their coffee pot being recalled can find answers on the internet. Your circa-1970 stove top coffee percolator can be found selling online anywhere from $15 to $50.

I have enclosed the mark that is on an old potter y vase that I bought at a tag sale 25 years ago. It was unusual, and I purchased it without having any knowledge of its background. The vase is 8 inches tall and has a swirled pattern in shades of blue, tan and cream. It is in mint condition.

Niloak Pottery Co. made your art pottery vase. It was in business in Benton, Arkansas, from 1910 to 1947. Niloak used two to three different colors of clay that were placed on the potter’s wheel and then swirled into marbleized patterns known as “Mission Swirl.” It used kaolin, fine white clay that was native to Arkansas. Kaolin spelled backwards is niloak, thus the name. Most pieces were cream, blue and tan, but examples can also be found in green, pink and white. Your vase was made sometime between 1910 and 1924. It would probably be worth $150 to $250. Niloak Pottery was founded in Arkansas in 1910.

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* On June 8, 1632, in Saudi Arabia, Muhammad, founder of Islam, dies. In 610, in a cave north of Mecca, he had a vision in which he believed he heard God command him to become the Arab prophet of the “true religion.” Muhammad began having religious revelations, which he collected as the Quran. * On June 9, 1856, nearly 500 Mormons leave Iowa City and head west for Salt Lake City, carrying all their goods and supplies in two-wheeled handcarts with wooden axles. Over the next four years, some 3,000 Mormon converts made the overland journey with similar handcarts.

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.

* On June 7, 1913, Hudson Stuck, an Alaskan missionary, leads the first successful ascent of Mt. McKinley’s south peak, the highest point on the North American continent, at 20,320 feet, overcoming difficult weather and a fire that destroyed food and supplies.

* On June 10, 1928, Maurice Sendak, author and illustrator of “Where the Wild Things Are,” is born in New York. The book was pioneering in its realistic depiction of childhood anxieties and rebellious behavior.

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* On June 6, 1933, in New Jersey, Richard Hollingshead opens the first drive-in movie theater. Hollingshead had experimented in the driveway of his home in Camden, mounting a 1928 Kodak projector on the hood of his car, pinning a screen to some trees, and placing a radio behind the screen for sound. * On June 11, 1955, a Mercedes-Benz race car in Le Mans, France, goes out of control at 150 mph and crashes into stands filled with spectators, killing 82 people. Several nations banned racing after the tragedy. * On June 5, 1968, Senator Robert Kennedy is shot at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles after winning the California presidential primary. Kennedy was shot several times by the 22-year-old Palestinian Sirhan Sirhan. He died a day later. (c) 2017 King Features Synd., Inc.

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echolocation, which is a series of rapid clicks that bounce back to the bat’s ears and indicate the location of prey. But the Grote’s tiger moth outwits bats by producing clicks of its own that jam the bat’s receiver, confusing it for the precious seconds needed for the moth to drop like a stone down to the forest floor.

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• The appropriately-named “bird-dropping spider” uses its clever disguise as camouflage. No one is going pay attention to a pile of bird droppings, including insects, who unsuspectingly wander by what appears to be a spatter on the ground. By the time they realize it's alive, the spider has already pounced on them and they are about to become his din-din. • Birds generally avoid eating ants simply because they taste bad. One species of treehopper bugs living in Central America carries around an extra flap of tissue on its back that looks very much like an ant. Any bird looking down upon the treehopper would see nothing but an unwanted ant. Beneath the decoration, the treehopper looks just like other ordinary treehoppers, but safely protected by its overhead disguise. • A certain type of lizard found in Borneo has flaps of skin that act like glider wings, allowing it to fall in a controlled manner from the tops of trees over to the next tree. These gliding lizards are expertly camouflaged so that they look to predators exactly like falling dead leaves coming from the treetops. DECOYS

• One type of spider found in Taiwan builds a life-size model of itself in order to act as a decoy. Using pellets made from the remains of insects, old leaves, empty egg sacks, and silk, this spider constructs a replica of itself and places it in plain sight. When predatory wasps attack, the spider safely hides away while the wasp attacks the decoy. • The yellow-rumped thornbill is an Australian bird whose nests are often raided by a bird called the currawong. Currawongs always attack from above, dropping down on a thornbill nest in order to feast on the eggs. The clever defense strategy of the thornbill is to build a two-tiered nest. The top floor is a decoy nest, which contains no eggs; the bottom level, hidden from the currawong’s view, is the real nest where the eggs are safe. �

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Look to Lag Three putt avoidance is a fairly new PGA Tour statistic that illustrates how often a player three putts over the course of all his putting adventures. The top players are usually under 2% of the time, which is quite amazing when you think of the difficulty of some tournament greens. Most amateurs, on the other hand, would probably love to have their avoidance percentage be lower than 20%. Practicing lag putts is a simple matter of tying the visuals of distance to the feels of stroke speed and length. For many golfers, this may require looking at the target during practice time in order to get a better recognition system built for later on the course. I’ve always felt that great lag putters could hold a visual image of where the hole was in the mind’s eye those few seconds before taking the stroke. By looking at the hole in practice, you may become more aware of what you’re seeing with how hard you need to hit it.

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