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 If you run a space heater, be sure it's the type with a safety button that automatically shuts it off if the unit gets tipped over. Even if you have one with this safety device, don’t leave it unattended. If you leave the room, turn it off.  Even if you live in an apartment building, beware any sink, tub or shower that is on an outside wall. If that's the case and the outside temperature falls well below freezing, try to keep the faucets slightly open to keep a trickle of water running through the pipes. Moving water does not freeze so easily.

OURSELVES  If you have to go out in the cold, dress yourself in layers. Don’t forget hat, gloves and thick scarf.

 If the worst happens and your pipes do freeze, never try to thaw them out with any device that involves a flame. It’s time to call in reinforcements, like your plumber. Don't wait to do this. Hard frozen pipes can easily burst and cause major problems, especially if they are inside the wall.

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Yes, I know exactly what she is talking about. It has to do with the payment of Social Security widow’s benefits. And it makes a good story about how Social Security and politics can make strange bedfellows. I have to start out by explaining the thinking behind widow’s benefits. They, along with other payments available to wives (and to a much lesser extent, husbands) and minor children, fall under the broad category of “auxiliary and survivor benefits.” These are benefits payable to the dependents of someone getting a Social Security retirement or disability check, or to the survivors of a worker who has died. And the concept of “dependency” is a key qualifying factor. In other words, a potential auxiliary or survivor beneficiary must prove that she or he was financially dependent on the primary spouse or parent. In order to keep people from having to present all kinds of personal and financial records as part of the application process, the law provides short cuts to help prove dependency. For example, with only a few exceptions, children are essentially deemed to be dependent on a parent with whom they are living. And in the case of a spouse, the law assumes the person with the lower Social Security benefit was probably financially dependent on the person with the higher Social Security benefit. For example, let’s say Tom is 66 and getting $2,100 per month from Social Security. His 62-yearold wife, Becky, is due $700 in her own monthly retirement benefits. Because Becky has the lower Social Security benefit, she is presumed to be financially dependent on Tom and thus qualifies for spousal benefits on his record. On the other hand, Tom, with the much higher Social Security retirement check, could not be considered financially dependent on Becky. Now some of you might be saying: “What about all those guys who are claiming husband’s benefits on their lower-earning wife’s Social Security account while saving their own retirement benefits until age 70?” That is the much-touted “file and restrict” maximizing strategy. That strategy grew out of a loophole in some Social Security amendments passed in the 1990s. And that loophole made a mockery of that basic Social Security tenet that said a husband or wife must be financially dependent on his or her partner to qualify for spousal benefits. Once officials in Washington realized this, they closed the loophole. it. Anyone turning 66 after January 2020 can no longer employ that unintended and misguided strategy.

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OK, having established the ground rule my government benefits.” Whatever the report, of “dependency” as a qualifying factor for spousal the phase “living in sin” was always the common benefits, let’s get to the fun part of this column -- thread. It became a national embarrassment that the sinning part! We need to go back about 40 years ago. a federal law was requiring these sweet little old Millions of women were collecting widow’s ben- grandmas to live outsides the bounds of marriage. efits on their deceased husband’s Social Security Eventually, the pressure just got too much for redaccounts. And some of those women, once a suit- faced members of Congress. They couldn’t act able mourning period had elapsed, might eventu- quickly enough to change the law. I don’t rememally start batting their eyes at a handsome bachelor ber the exact date, but sometime in the 1970s they or widower whom they met at the bingo parlor, or changed the law to say that a woman who remarsenior center, or across the banana stand at their ried after age 60 could continue to receive widow’s benefits from her first husband’s Social Security local supermarket. And sometimes sparks would fly, and the account. And that law still stands today. But of sweet, lovely elderly couple would decide to get course today, the whole concept of “living in sin” married. All was happiness and bliss until the woman realized this: If she got married, she would lose as a social taboo is almost laughable. For example, the widow’s benefits she was collecting on her first just on my own block, there are two older couples who have been living together -- unmarried -- for husband’s Social Security record. PROOF It’s just no big deal. How could this be? Well, it all has to do with years.ADVERTISING Mon. 11/27/17 Changes On the DUE: other hand, there also are5:00 manyp.m.. sethat concept of “dependency” as a qualifying factor Final Please review carefully. Double check:  Phone Number(s)  Spelling  Prices  Hours nior citizen couples who want to make everything for her widow’s benefits. To repeat, she was getting Contact your Tidbits representative immediately with changes or corrections. legal and get married. And if the woman is getting those benefits because she was deemed to be finan- Office: 760-320-0997 email: valleybits@msn.com Fax: 760-320-1630 a Social Security widow’s check, she has absolutecially dependent on her first husband. But if she married husband No. 2, then the law would con- ly no fear of losing those benefits from husband sider her to be this new guy’s dependent spouse. No. 1 if she decides to walk down the aisle with Absolute Handyman Services That meant she could no longer be deemed depen- husband No. 2. * * 6x discount rate • Business Card, Full* Color, If you have a Social Security question, Tom Mardent on her first husband. Therefore, she would • Dec.Contact 3 - Jan.him 7, at 2018 has the answer. thomas.margenau@ no longer qualify for widow’s benefits on his Social genau comcast.net. To find out more about Tom Margenau • Volume 13: #49 Volume 14: #2 and to Security record. read past columns and see features from other Creators Syn So how did she get around this law? Well, dicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate website at www.creators.com. that’s where the “sinning” came in. If the couple COPYRIGHT 2018 CREATORS.COM WED., JAN. 24 12 NOON merely lived together, as opposed to legally tying Please her review carefully. Double check:  Phone Number(s)  Spelling  Prices the knot, she could keep collecting widow’s ADVERTISING PROOF benefits from her first husband. Contact your Tidbits representative with changes correction Final Changes immediately DUE: p.m..BEor ST N E! 5:00 review carefully. Double check:  Phone  Prices P R Hours LET’SPlease FINALLY GET YOUR “HONEY DO”Number(s) LIST DOSpelling Eventually, the media picked up on this IC E S! Office: 760-320-0997 email: Fax: 760-320-1 Contact your Tidbitsvalleybits@msn.com representative immediately with changes or corrections. trend. And they had a field day with it. Headlines • Interior Exterior • Painting • Drywall Fax: 760-320-1630 Office:&760-320-0997 email: valleybits@msn.com in newspapers around the country went like this: • Electrical • Hang T.V.s • Ceiling Fans • Outlets • Light SwitchesProperty • Stucco “Widow must live in sin to avoid losing Social Seof AdVenture Media, Inc. • Wood Flooring • No Job Too Small! curity check.” Television news reports featured inMOBILE HOME REPAIR SPECIALIST Marcy - Real Estate FREE terviews with women in disguise who reported, “I Catherine Coachella Valley • Hi-Desert • Sky Valley pg OFF 4C -Phone: - - 760.320.0997 Fax: am ashamed to say I am living in sin to avoid losing 1/12 10% 760.320.1630 CALLvalleybits@msn.com FREE SENIOR 28, & MILITARY2018 DISCOUNT CHRIS Jan. Vol. 14 No. ESTIMATES! 760. 5

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