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more than 80 percent. CASEY’S CORNER (from page 9) Patients who survive the initial stroke are personal protection. You might be surprised by what admitted to a hospital and often have to spend you find when doing your research. A trained Yorkie some time receiving aggressive rehabilitation. With can make an excellent alarm system if you discover appropriate occupational and physical therapy, that’s all you really need. remarkable recovery can occur. Aimed at reducing the risk of a stroke and But if the cold, hard facts determine that you have improving the prognosis, compulsive treatment an aggressive dog, don’t dress it up in sheep’s clothincludes lowering blood pressure and cholesterol, ing. Don’t wait until someone gets hurt. Aggressive treating diabetes and prescribing drugs that impair behavior doesn’t mean a death sentence for the dog, Precision Ultra Sound platelet function. Usually an 81-milligram aspirin and it doesn’t mean you’re a bad person. In my ex1/16th page, Black & White, 26x discount rate tablet and Plavix are prescribed to reduce the risk perience, 95 percent of aggressive dogs can be reInsertion Date: Jan. 30, 2011 of blood clots in the brain. habilitated and their behavior controlled to allow for It is clear thatDue: stroke, a leading cause of death, a good and safe existence in the right environment. FINAL Changes 12 pm., Wednesday, 01/26/11 carries a poor prognosis. Fortunately, regular Whereas, calling aggression “protection” will only medical checkups and compulsive treatment of get you trouble. TUES., JAN 4 disorders, which predispose to stroke, substantially Woof! Please review carefully. Double check:  Phone Number(s)  Spelling  Pric reduce the risks, leading to a better and a longer life. Dog trainer Matthew “Uncle Matty” Margolis is the co-

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that would come with a 32 percent delayed retirement bonus. However, you’d have to recognize that you’re taking a bit of a gamble if you do that. You’d be throwing away four year’s worth of higher benefits on your own Social Security record -- hoping that you’ll live long enough after age 70 to come out ahead with the bonus payments.

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I read your woman’s guide to Social Security. In it, you said that I wouldn’t be able to get any of my husband’s Social Security if my own benefit is higher than his amount. But in another fact sheet where you wrote about maximizing one’s Social Security, you said that I could take part of my husband’s Social Security at 66 and then delay my own until 70. Can I do that even when my Social Security is higher than my husband’s benefit?

I am 65 and have been getting Social Security for a couple of years. My wife is 63 and still working. She plans to work until she is 66. But her brother has advised her to retire now and take her Social Security right away. He said she could get her own benefit and half of mine. Is this true?

No, it’s not true. The Social Security Administration almost always pays a woman her own retirement benefit first. Then they look to see if that payment can be supplemented with any extra benefits from a spouse’s record. Because your wife is only 63 and under her “full retirement age,” that supplement could only be about 40 percent of your retirement benefit. So, your brother-in-law is wrong. She cannot get half of your Social Security (at her current age), and she definitely cannot get half of your Social Security and her own retirement benefit.

My wife recently passed away. I am 68. About five years ago, I applied for Social Security and she started getting wife’s benefits on my record because she didn’t have enough work credits to get her own Social Security. I was under the impression that my benefits were reduced when she went on my record. So when she died, I expected my benefits to go back up. But they didn’t. How come? Also, I didn’t get any funeral benefits from Social Security for her. Was this correct?

Security benefit.

I am a 62-year-old divorced woman who recently started working following many years as a housewife and mother. I read your Social Security guide for women, and it said I could get wife’s benefits from my ex-husband’s record. (We were married for almost 40 years.) But when I called the Social Security office to apply, they said I’m not eligible. I was so confused and disappointed that I didn’t really understand why I wasn’t allowed to file for my ex’s Social Security. Do you know why?

My hunch is due to your work and earnings. As I explained in the woman’s guide to Social Security, a woman getting benefits as a wife or widow (or divorced wife or widow) is subjected to the same earnings penalties that apply to retirees. In a nutshell, those rules say that if you are under age 66 and still working, your Social Security benefits must be reduced by $1 for every $2 you make over $14,160 per year. So, depending on how much more than $14,160 you’re earning per year, you’re probably not due any Social Security benefits on anyone’s record until you retire or turn 66. 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 read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate website at www.creators.com.

Yes, you can. And this is yet another exCOPYRIGHT 2011 CREATORS.COM. ample of the “ifs ands or buts” of Social Security law that I write about all the time. In the woman’s guide fact sheet, I correctly wrote that normally a woman who gets a higher retirement benefit than her husband cannot expect to get any supplemental benefits as a spouse on his record. In fact, in that scenario, the husband might be due some supplemental husband’s or widower’s benefits on his wife’s Social Security account. But it is also true that if a person waits until Your Social Security benefits were NOT reage 66 to claim Social Security benefits, he or she duced because your wife was getting spousal benTUES., JAN. 18 can temporarily waive eligibility to his or her own efits on your record. They probably were reduced Please Double  Phone Number(s)  Spelling retirement benefits. Instead, one can take review benefitscarefully. because you check: took your own benefits before your  Prices  Hours as the husband or wife on the spouse’s Social Se- full retirement age. But anything paid to your wife curity record. So you could do just that: Take a 50 was an “add-on” benefit that had no impact on the percent wife’s benefit on your husband’s Social Se- money paid to you. So your benefit does not go up curity record at age 66. Then at age 70, switch to full after your wife dies. �� by Linda Thistle retirement benefits on your own record; benefits ROCK Also, the small one-time death benefit ($255) is GARDEN CAFE The idea of Go Figure! is to arrive at the ﬁgures given only paid the record of someone 1/8th pg. 4on Color Open Rate: $204.00 who had enough at the bottom and right-hand columns of the diagram work be7 eligible by following the arithmetic signs in the order they are Jan. 30,credits 2011 to Vol. - No. 5 for his or her own Social

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