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Widows with Social Security Issues Recently, I wrote a column about how Social Security impacts widows and widowers. But the questions keep flowing into my inbox. So today, more answers to more questions from widows:

My husband died two months ago. He had been getting Social Security disability benefits for years. I am 64 years old and I have been getting my own Social Security since I was 62. I filed for widow’s benefits and was shocked to learn that because I took early retirement (following your advice, by the way), my widow’s benefit is now permanently reduced! Please tell your readers that taking reduced retirement benefits has ramification for any future widow’s benefits you might be due.

I won’t do that because it’s wrong. Either you were misinformed, or you misunderstood what someone at the Social Security Administration told you. The fact that you took reduced retirement has nothing to do with the amount of your widow’s benefits. About all that really matters is your age when you filed for widow’s benefits. If you start those benefits before age 66, there will be a reduction. That reduction is roughly one-half of one percent for each month you are under age 66. So at age 64, your widow’s benefit is reduced roughly 12 percent. To repeat, your widow’s benefits are not reduced because you took your own benefits at 62. They are reduced because you were 64 when you filed for widow’s benefits. And perhaps it was not explained to you, but you would have had the option of continuing to receive your reduced retirement benefits until age 66. And then, at that time, you could have switched to 100 percent widow’s benefits. If you like that option and can afford it, you could go back to your Social Security office and ask to withdraw your widow’s claim. Anyone has up to 12 months to change his or her mind about a Social Security claim and withdraw it. You could then live on your own reduced retirement benefits until you are 66, when you would refile for widow’s benefits and get the 100 percent rate. (By the way, in a recent column, I mistakenly said you have six months to withdraw a claim. I apologize for the error.) I also need to deliver this message to my readers. You said you followed my advice when you filed for reduced retirement benefits. I have pointed out hundreds of times in this column that I am NOT a financial advisor and I do not advise people when to file for benefits. On the other hand, I do explain Social Security rules about the ramifications of filing for Social Security benefits at various ages. To be fair, I must admit that as an antidote to the “Social Security maximizing” fever that has gripped so many seniors today, and that has so many of them delaying starting their benefits until age 70, I occasionally tell my readers about my wife and I taking our Social Security at 62 and how we’ve been having fun spending our reduced retirement benefits. I have never meant that to be “advice.” I’m simply relating my own personal experience.

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died. He had started his Social Security when he was 62 years old. I am 81. I never worked outside the home. So I was getting wife’s benefits on his record. I thought that after he died I was going to start getting his full Social Security benefit. I got an increase, but not as much as I thought. Can you explain this to me?

vorced in 2010. Neither of us remarried. He was 75, and I am 74. His Social Security benefit is almost twice as much as mine. Based on something you wrote in a previous column about a similar situation, I called Social Security and told them I wanted to file for divorced widow’s benefits. Imagine my shock when they told me that no such benefits existed! What should I do now?

I’m not sure what you meant when you said you thought you would get his “full ben- You should call them back, or mayefit.” If you meant his full retirement age benefit, be plan a trip to your local Social Security office, then that’s wrong. You will never get that. Or to put and insist on filing for divorced widow’s benefits, that another way, because he took reduced retire- which, by the way, really do exist. But this time, ment benefits, that reduction carries over to the tell them you want to file for “surviving divorced widow’s benefits you are now due. wife’s benefits.” That’s the name the Social Secu And please note that this is a different sce- rity Administration uses to refer to benefits for dinario from the issue discussed in the first question. vorced widows. And I suppose legally that’s the In that case, the fact that the widow took her own proper term. After all, if your ex-husband dies, early retirement benefits had no impact on her you’re not really his “widow.” You’re his ex-wife eventual widow’s benefits. But in your case, the and you’ve survived him, so that makes you his fact that your husband took early retirement does “surviving divorced wife.” impact your widow’s benefits. (Note to readers: This woman eventually I usually tell women over age 66 that they got back to me and told me that after visiting her MON. , MARCH 6 will start getting whatever their husband was get- local office and asking to file a surviving divorced carefully. Double Phone Number(s) Spelling Pleasereview review carefully. Double check: Phone Number(s) Spelling Price ting when he died in the form ofPlease widow’s benefits. wife’s claim,check: everything worked out. Still, it bugs Prices So if he was getting a reduced retirement benefit, Tidbits me that the first SSAimmediately clerk she talked changes to couldn’t Contact Contactyour your Tidbitsrepresentative representative immediatelywith with changesororcorrectio correct that reduced benefit will then become your wid- figure out what this lady meant when she said she Office: 760-320-0997 email: valleybits@msn.com Fax: 760-320 email: valleybits@msn.com ow’s rate (minus whatever you mightOffice: be due760-320-0997 in wanted to file for divorced widow’s benefits.) Fax: 760-32 your own retirement benefits.) * * * But that is not always the case because the If you have a Social Security question, Tom law guarantees that a widow (over age 66) can’t get Margenau has the answer. Contact him at thomas.marless than 82.5 percent of her deceased husband’s genau@comcast.net. To find out more about Tom Margenau and to read and see features from Source, Inc.past c/ocolumns Corey Chambers full benefit rate. You said your husband took ben-Realty other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit efits at 62. For someone his age, that meant he wasBZ BW 26x the Creators Syndicate website at www.creators.com. 12, 2017 Vol. 13 - No. 11 getting 80 percent of his full benefit. As I just said,March COPYRIGHT 2017 CREATORS.COM you would normally get that. But because of the ADVERTISING PROOF 5:00 p.m.. widow’s 82.5 percent guaranteed minimum,Final you Changes DUE: Mon., April 28, 2015 Please review carefully. Double check:  Phone Number(s)  Spelling  Prices  H will actually get 2.5 percent more than he was getContact your Tidbits representative immediately with changes or corrections. ting. Office: 760-320-0997 Fax: 760-320-1630 My ex-husband recently died. We Find out what the home down had been married for 35 years before we diyour street sold for!

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This mark is on the back of a blue and white porcelain plate I own. It is decorated with birds, branches and flowers against a white background. The edge has a geometric blue border. It is in mint condition. I hope you can provide information on the maker, its origin and its value.

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This is a photo of a table that has been handed down in our family for generations. It is 27 inches tall and 37 inches wide, and it has a solid marble top. What kind of wood is it? Can you give us more information about it and what it’s worth?

* On June 24, 1901, the first major exhibition of 75 of Pablo Picasso’s works of art opens in Paris. Picasso’s life work comprises more than 50,000 paintings, drawings, engravings, sculptures and ceramics produced over 80 years.

Wood & Barker made your plate. It was located at Queen Street Potteries in Stokeon-Trent, England, for just a few years, between 1897 and 1903. The word included with the mark, “fasan,” is the German word for pheasant. The birds that decorate your plate are pheasants. Your plate might be worth $25 to $50. * * * 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. COPYRIGHT 2017 CREATORS.COM

Victorian table was made around 1860.

* On June 22, 1945, the U.S. 10th Army overcomes the last pockets of Japanese resistance on Okinawa Island, ending one of the bloodiest battles of World War II. The Japanese lost 120,000 troops in the defense of Okinawa, while the Americans suffered 12,500 dead and 35,000 wounded. * On June 25, 1956, the last Packard -- the classic luxury car with the famous slogan “Ask the Man Who Owns One” -- rolls off the production line in Detroit. Packard first earned fame for a fourcylinder aluminum speedster called the “Gray Wolf,” released in 1904. * On June 21, 1963, the French government shocks its allies by announcing that it is withdrawing its navy from the North Atlantic fleet of NATO, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, in order to maintain control of nuclear missiles aboard its ships. French naval forces never rejoined the NATO fleet. * On June 19, 1970, Carole King earned her first No. 1 single as a performer with the double-sided hit “It’s Too Late/I Feel the Earth Move.” King began her music career when she cowrote the Shirelles’ hit “Will You Love Me Tomorrow” in 1960.

You have a good example of a Victorian parlor table. The marble turtle-shaped top, incised carvings, ornately scrolled legs that terminate in castors and stretcher shelf with a carved recumbent dog are characteristics of the Rococo Revival period in the Victorian era. The period began around 1845 and ebbed by 1865. Your circa-1860 parlor table is made of walnut and would probably be worth $800 to $1,600. *** My wife and I acquired an epergne at a local yard sale in the mid-1980s. It was milk glass with a hobnail surface. The edge was scalloped with a light-blue color. It had three horns that were each about 8 inches tall. We had it on our kitchen table and floated roses in it. Unfortunately, it cracked and we discarded it. Could you furnish any information as to the manufacturer and what is would cost to replace today? It was beautiful, and we would love to find another one just like it.

* On June 20, 1980, Roberto Duran out-points Sugar Ray Leonard in “The Brawl in Montreal” to win the WBC welterweight boxing title and the unofficial title of best “pound for pound” fighter in the world.

* On June 23, 1992, Mafia boss John Gotti, nicknamed the “Teflon Don” after escaping unscathed from several trials during the 1980s, is sentenced to life in prison. Hundreds of Gotti’s supporters reacted by storming the building and overturning cars. (c) 2017 King Features Synd., Inc.

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