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In a recent column, you categorically stated that people cannot bring their foreign-born parents to this countr y and then put them on their Social Security account. You said the only way that could happen is if someone died. In other words, you claim that benefits to parents can be paid only after the death of one of that parent’s grown children. But I know for a fact that this is untrue. My ex-husband brought his parents to this countr y in the 1980s and immediately put them on his Social Security. And they got those Social Security benefits for the rest of their lives. How could you print such a big lie?

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parent before the son or daughter’s death. Gosh. I didn’t know the Social Security Finally, I made clear that out of roughly 50 Administration was still doing those ID checks on million Social Security beneficiaries, only about centenarians! It’s an anti-fraud measure to make 2,000 people get benefits as dependent parents on a sure people that old who are getting Social Security deceased son or daughter’s Social Security record. benefits are really still alive. And the vast majority of those parents are U.S. citi- As I recall, the project started 30 or more zens. So even if they were all “mooching” benefits years ago following a spate of news stories about from the taxpayers (which they are not because they grown children cashing their deceased parents’ Soare getting paid legally), they are certainly not bank- cial Security checks. During my career with SSA, rupting the Social Security system. I visited hundreds of centenarians and essentially All the readers who claimed they had per- asked them: “Are you still alive?” I always found that sonal knowledge of a foreign-born parent getting So- so embarrassing! And in all the cases I was involved cial Security benefits were actually referring to folks in, there never was even a hint of fraud. getting Supplemental Security Income payments. Frankly, I’m not sure how effective or neces As I’ve pointed out so often in this column, sary that program is anymore. Today, all kinds of far too many people confuse SSI with Social Secu- other anti-fraud measures are built into the system, rity. SSI is a federal welfare program that pays a very such as computer-matching operations with banks (Deadline With Passed) meager monthly check to about 6 million elderly and and state bureaus of vital statistics. only a few disabled poor people in this country. Even though rare (and thus newsworthy) exceptions, Please review carefully. Double check:  Phone Number(s) ifyou’re Spelling  Pric the program is managed by the Social Security Ad- old and you die, Social Security is going to find out ministration, SSI is not a Social Security benefit, andyourabout Contact Tidbits it. representative immediately with changes or corre SSI checks are not funded by Social Security taxes. Office: 760-320-0997 Fax: 760-320-1630 Email: valleybits@m Up until about 20 years ago, it was possible If you have a Social Security question, Tom Marfor an elderly person who moved to this country le- genau has the answer. Contact him at thomas.margenau@ gally to qualify for SSI benefits after they arrived -- as- comcast.net. To find out more about Tom Margenau and to read past columns and see features from other Creators Synsuming they met all the eligibility requirements. So, Bayer Cemetery Brokers visit the Creators Syndicate dicate writers and cartoonists, many people, like your ex-husband, brought their BZ website www.creators.com. 4Cat26x parents over here and then took them down to the Sept. 11, 2011 7 - No. 37 COPYRIGHT 2011Vol. CREATORS.COM Social Security office to help them file for Supplemental Security Income payments. Because they went to a Social Security ofTurn your un-needed Cemetery Property fice to do this and because the name of the program into CASH! makes it seem to be a Social Security supplement, many folks mistakenly believed their parents were BUY ● SELL ● LIST ● TRADE getting some kind of Social Security benefit. But Lots, Plots, Crypts and Niches again, they were not. Those foreign-born parents were getting monthly SSI checks. % SAVE And they didn’t get the checks for long. Sometime during the early 1990s, Congress changed the law to say that, with only very few exceptions, 760-247-8518 Agent Opportunity only U.S. citizens could qualify for Supplemental Sewww.bayercemeterybrokers.com Email: info@bayerbrokers.com curity Income payments. So foreign-born parents have never “mooched” benefits from the Social Security program, and for the past two decades, they haven’t “mooched” benefits from the Supplemental Security Income program either. Proof created by: * * *

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Recent studies show that in some cases, vitamins actually can be detrimental to our health instead of the other way around. One reason is that so many vitamins already are put in our food DEAR DR. DONOHUE: I would like to and drinks, it’s easy to get too much. know more about RLS, restless leg syndrome. The difficulty is sorting through the reCould you discuss this in your column? -- I.J. search results. Here are some of the findings: ● Vitamin E, when taken in large doses, ANSWER: Roughly 7 percent of women and has been shown to cause a slightly higher risk of 3 percent of men suffer from restless leg syndrome. prostate cancer, but can lower the risk for AlzheimThat gives you a lot of fellow sufferers. People deer’s disease. scribe it in many ways. Some say it’s an aching in ● Low vitamin D is often seen in cancer their legs. Others describe it as a creeping-crawling patients. sensation. No matter how people express the feeling, ● Senior women might have a slightly highit makes them get up and move around. Activity lesser risk of dying if they take certain vitamins and ens or gets rid of the sensations, but they can and do Dr. Donohue regrets that he is unable to answer individual supplements. Iron can increase mortality, while come back. They usually appear in the evening or at letters, but he will incorporate them in his column whenever calcium can reduce it. night when people are sitting or when they get into possible. Readers may write him or request an order form of ● Vitamin B-12 might help with memory available health newsletters at P.O. Box 536475, Orlando, FL bed. problems. 32853-6475. No one is sure what causes the syndrome. 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The direction of investments has become the “billion dollar question.” We are bombarded with so much information and differing opinions,  that deciding the best way to invest is a crapshoot. We Creators News Syndicate can’t change what we can’t control, but monitoring our portfolios and forgetting its past performance is our best hope. Try to find an experienced, common sense investment counselor who has a reasonable ● On Nov. 17, 1421, a storm in the North track record, understands your personal goals and Sea batters the European coastline. Over gives you the ability to monitor his or her actions. the next several days, approximately 10,000 We have a lovely 19-year-old grand If their performance does not match your people in what is now the Netherlands die daughter who is in her second year of college. needs, find someone else. Professional advisors can in the resulting floods. Fatal floods struck She made straight A’s in high school, was hapno longer rely on historical data. Just juggling clients’ in 1287, 1338, 1374, 1394 and 1396. After py and popular. time horizons, rebalancing their portfolios and aseach, residents fixed the dikes and moved Now she is struggling to make C’s, has set locations, choosing stocks versus mutual funds, right back in. gained a lot of weight and wants to quit college. diversifying assets into growing industries, holding Neither her parents nor we can we understand cash versus investing, guessing whether stocks or ● On Nov. 14, 1851, “Moby-Dick,” a novel her problem. How can we help her refocus on bonds will increase the most in value are just some by Herman Melville about the voyage of the her abilities and get out of this slump? TUES., MAR. 15 of the options. whaling ship Pequod, is published. “Moby To quote Warren Buffett, “In the business Dick” isnow considered a classic of AmeriPlease review Double check:  Phone Number(s)  Spelling  Prices Hours Some psychologists believe many indi- carefully. world the rear view mirror is always clearer than the can literature and contains one of the most viduals today do not mature until about age 26. They front windshield!” famous opening lines in fiction: “Call me Ishattribute several reasons for this: Failure to assume mael.” responsibility; the 50 percent divorce rate; being Doug Mayberry makes the most of life in a Southern spoiled as children; too many scheduled sports and California retirement community. Contact him at deardoug@ ● On Nov. 15, 1867, the first stock ticker required social interactions, and not enough free msn.com. To find out more about Doug Mayberry and read is unveiled in New York City. The advent of Bob’s Clock Repair time as children. 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Antique Mugs and Brush Stir up a Lather Q:

This shaving mug has been in our family since the early 1950s. It is marked on the bottom with the word and number “Germany -- 99.” The multi-colored flowers are in relief against a heavily embellished gold background. We also still have the shaving brush that came with it. The mug was given to my dad, who was a painter and paperhanger, by the owners of a home he was working in. Any information you can provide on the histor y of our mug will be appreciated.

The bears were marketed during Ted Kennedy’s unsuccessful, 1980 campaign for the Democratic nomination for president, when he ran against Jimmy Carter. In the past few years, their value has skyrocketed and then plummeted. At one point, the value was in the upper hundreds. Currently, they are available on the Internet for $75 to $100. Address your questions to Anne McCollam, P. O.

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