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• With the success of the B7, Bombardier expanded into military vehicles and became a major supplier in the World War II effort. After the war, he pushed ahead to improve his inventions, producing a 12-passenger snowmobile, which was an immediate winner with police departments, the timber industry, and mining companies. An 18-passenger model quickly followed, which was used by schools in the snowy climate of Quebec and Ontario. • Bombardier was soon designing vehicles to undertake difficult terrains, such as swamps, bogs, and mud. Some had tracks for traction, while others had an interchangeable system of wheels and skis. In 1953, he introduced the all-terrain Muskeg tractor, capable of hauling skiers on back roads or up a mountain slope. • Perhaps his best-known triumph came along in 1953. Using a lighter engine, Bombardier created the Ski-Doo snowmobile, a $900 machine for outdoor recreation lovers. Originally slated to be called the Ski-Dog, intended to replace the dogsled, it became the Ski-Doo when a painter misread the name and painted Ski-Doo on the prototype. Mass production of the unit began in 1959, and was immediately embraced not only by recreationists, but hunters, prospectors, surveyors, missionaries, and trappers as well. Bombardier’s company was enjoying annual sales of $3.5 million by the end of the 1950s. •

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How to Apply for Social Security Benefits I have written lots of columns that help you decide when to start your Social Security benefits. But once you make that decision, how do you go about signing up for them? That’s the focus of today’s column. First, you’ve got to gather the documents you may need. What official papers or other evidence the Social Security Administration might require depends on the kind of benefit you are trying to get. The most common would be retirement benefits. To get such benefits, you have to prove you are old enough to qualify for them. SSA has been taking retirement claims for about 80 years now. And they know from experience that the most reliable record of your age is a birth certificate recorded before your 5th birthday. Today, almost all of us have such an official record of our birth. But I remember in my formative years of working for SSA in the early 1970s, it was fairly common for people retiring at that time (they would have been born in the early 1900s) to have no public birth certificate. We spent a lot of time searching old census or school records trying to help those folks prove their age. If your birth was not recorded in the city or county where you were born, SSA will accept a baptismal certificate, assuming you were baptized before your 5th birthday. If you don’t have a birth or baptismal record, then SSA will help you find some other evidence of your birth -- like those census record I got for people retiring back in the 1970s. Having said all that, there is a chance SSA won’t need any proof of your birth because it already exists either in their records or in other government records to which the agency has access. You really won’t know until you are applying for your Social Security benefits, so it’s best just to have your evidence of birth ready to go. (When I filed for Social Security, I did not need to provide a birth certificate. But when my wife filed, she did.) One final note on birth records: If you need to provide one, it must be an original document, or a copy certified by the agency from which you obtained it.

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Usually the only other record needed when hour. As I said, my wife had to go down to our local you file for retirement benefits is a copy of your last Social Security office with her birth certificate, but W-2 form -- or a copy of your most recent tax return that was the only minor inconvenience in an otherif you are self employed. Because your benefit is wise very smooth process. However, do NOT plan to file online if you based on your earnings, and because there can be intend to make use of any of the Social Security a little lag time in posting your prior year’s income, SSA asks to see your last W-2 or tax return just to maximizing strategies that are so popular today and that I have discussed countless times in this colmake sure your files are up-to-date. Those are almost always the only documents umn. Implementing those strategies involves comneeded for a retirement claim. If you are a veteran, puter machinations and personal consultations that there is a chance you may need to show your DD-214 SSA’s online system simply cannot handle. WED, APRIL 8 Today’s column did not discuss filing for (discharge papers). But SSA only needs this if the Social Security involvesa Prices  carefully. Double check:disability  Phone benefits. Number(s)That  Spelling special Social Security earningsPlease creditsreview that some military personnel receive are a factor in your retire- lot more time and paperwork and has been the subContacthave youraTidbits representative changes or corrections ject of past columnsimmediately and will no with doubt be the main ment computation and if they don’t already Office: 760-320-0997 Fax: 760-320-1630 topicDouble of a future column. record of your military service. Please review carefully. check:  Phone Number(s)  Spelling  Prices The other common type of claim involves fil If you have a Social Security question, Tom MarContact representative immediately with changes or correctio ing for spousal benefits on a husband’s or wife’s your So- Tidbits has the answer. Contact him at thomas.margenau@ cial Security account. If you are doing that, you will genau Office: 760-320-0997 Fax: 760-320-1630 have to prove you were married to your spouse. That comcast.net. To find out more about Tom Margenau and to read past columns and-see features from other Creators SynMarcy Real Estate obviously means a marriage certificate. And if you Catherine Property ofvisit the Creators Syndicate dicate writers and cartoonists, Media, Inc. pg at 4C - - AdVenture are filing for benefits from an ex-spouse, you have 1/16 website www.creators.com. 19, 2015 Vol. 11 - No. 17 to prove the dates of the marriage. So then you need April COPYRIGHT 2015 CREATORS.COM FREE to show your divorce papers in addition to the marof Coachella Valley Property of riage document. AdVenture Inc. 760.320.0997 Fax:Media, 760.320.1630 When you’ve gathered the records you Retire in Style! FOR SALE! All Rights Reserved need, then it’s time to start the claims process. And 55+ GatedFREE Community of Coachella Valley Community Pool/Spa you should do that two to three months ahead of High Ceilings/Side Patio 760.320.0997 Fax: 760.320.1630 time. Lots of folks think they need to file at least Open Living Area All Rights Reserved Upgraded Flooring six months prior to their retirement. That’s simply 2 BR / 2 BA not necessary. In fact, SSA computers are not pro1231 sq. ft. $158,000 grammed to take claims more than three months ahead of time. And you can rest easy about that time frame. OPEN HOUSE 47765 Dancing Butterfly Sat. April 11 Although many folks think the government can’t La Quinta, CA 92253 pm 2 11 am Directions: do anything right, SSA processes most retirement Ave. 48 between claims in about a week. I filed for my retirement benAdams St. & Dune Palms Rd. efits on a Monday, and by Friday, I had received a notice of my entitlement. Serving the Coachella Valley Catherine Marcy BRE Lic. #01308234 So a couple months before you want your 760.272.0753 Or visit me at: www.CatherineMarcy.com benefits to begin, you should contact SSA. You can file online at www.socialsecurity.gov. Or if you prefer old-fashioned person-to-person service, call them at 800-772-1213. If you do the latter, you will be given the choice of making an appointment to file your claim by phone or in person at your local Social Security office. Sometimes they will be ready to take your claim right away -- the first time you call. If you have a simple and straightforward claim, then I would strongly recommend you file online. It is so simple. Both my wife and I filed our claims that way. The process took less than a half

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