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cally call for help when a fall is detected. The Splash can be purchased at GreatCall.com (or 800-918-8543), or at Walmart, Sears, Best Buy and Rite Aid Pharmacy stores. Other Options If you want some additional options to shop and compare, there are other good companies that offer moderately priced mobile alerts, including Consumer Cellular (consumercellular.com/ally); Bay Alarm Medical (bayalarmmedical.com); MobileHelp (mobilehelp.com); Medical Alert (medicalalert.com); Life Alert (lifealert.com) and SafeGuardian (safeguardian. com).

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At the press of a button, your loved one could call and talk to a trained operator through the system’s base station receiver, which works like a powerful speakerphone. The operator will find out what’s wrong, and will notify family members, a neighbor, friend or emergency services as needed. But these devices are limited because they only work in and around the house. If you’re away from home and need help, you’re out of luck. But today, there are numerous mobile products that work anywhere. Here are some top options. High-End Device If you’re interested in getting your mom a comprehensive, high-end medical alert device that works everywhere, consider the Philips Lifeline GoSafe system. It provides a necklace pendent button, which works like a two-way communication device, allowing your mom to speak and listen directly through the pedant. If your mom were to fall or need help at home, she could press the button and the home-base communicator system would be activated to make the call to the response center, who would then dispatch help as needed. But if she fell or needed help away from home, the system’s AT&T wireless network would kick in and place the call.

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For years, medical alert devices (also known as “personal emergency response systems” or PERS) have been popular home safety products for elderly seniors that live alone. These systems come with a wearable SOS pendent button – usually a necklace or wristband – and a base station that connects to the home phone line.

This system also has six sophisticated locating technologies so the response center would know your mom’s exact location, even where GPS signals are weak. And it has fall detection sensors built into the pendent that can automatically summon help if a fall is detected and your mom is unable to push the button. The GoSafe is available at lifelinesys.com (or 855-2767761) for $149, with monthly services fees that start at $55.

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SOCIAL SECURITY by Tom Margenau

More About Social Security Maximizing Strategies As I’ve said many times before, there is no single Social Security topic I hear about more often than the current craze to maximize one’s Social Security benefits. Easily, 75 percent of the emails I get deal with this one issue alone. And this week, I received a couple emails that distressed me. They came from folks who have gone to their local Social Security offices demanding to initiate some Social Security maximizing strategy they claimed they have learned from my column. But the trouble is, they misunderstood something I wrote and are trying to do something they simply can’t do. Some have gone so far as to file appeals with Social Security alleging, “Tom Margenau said I can do this!” One Social Security official told me they refer to these as “frivolous Margenau cases.” I have written MANY past columns discussing these maximizing strategies. But obviously it’s time to trot out the explanations one more time. There are two basic strategies. One is called “file and suspend.” The other I’ve taken to calling “file and restrict.” But the more technical term the Social Security Administration would use is “restricting the scope of your application to spousal benefits.” To understand the strategies, you first need to grasp some basic program policies. The first policy says that any Social Security claim filed before full retirement age is an open, or unrestricted, application. In other words, if you file for Social Security before FRA, you must file for any and all benefits you are potentially due, both on your record and on a spouse’s account. This usually means that you can

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NOT file for reduced benefits on a spouse’s Social Security record and then later file for full benefits on your own record. Conversely, you can NOT file for reduced retirement benefits on your own record and later switch to full benefits on a spouse’s record -- unless your spouse is not yet getting Social Security at the time you apply for your own reduced retirement (By the way, this unrestricted application rule does NOT apply to benefits for widows and widowers.) The second basic Social Security policy says that if you wait until your full retirement age to file for benefits, the first policy explained in the prior paragraph goes out the window. In other words, at age 66, you can file for one benefit and later -- usually at age 70 -- switch to higher benefits. How you accomplish this almost always involves employing one of the aforementioned strategies: file and suspend or file and restrict. And that phrase “employ one of the ... strategies” is one key to understanding the main point of this column: you can use one or the other strategy. You can NOT use both. (Many of the aforementioned squabbles people have been having with their local Social Security office involve folks trying to employ both strategies.) The term “file and suspend” means that you file for benefits at age 66 and then immediately suspend your payments. You would do that for one of two reasons. The most common is when you have a spouse who is due little or no benefits on his or her own Social Security record. After you “file and suspend” (again, at age 66 or later), your spouse can then file on your account and get monthly benefits even though your own payments are in suspense. Then at 70, you would “unsuspend” your benefits and get a 32 percent bonus added to your full monthly retirement rate. If a spouse isn’t in the picture but you plan to wait until 70 to get the bonus, you can still file at age 66 and suspend your benefits. You would do that just in case something happens between age 66 and 70 and you decide to start your benefits before your 70th birthday. You would then have the choice of getting a pro-rated bonus added to your monthly checks, or claiming retroactive benefits to age 66 at the full retirement rate. Had you not “filed and suspended” at age 66, your only option would be to simply file for your benefits and have them begin effective with your filing date. You would not have the option of taking full retroactive benefits. The “file and restrict” strategy is used when you have a spouse already getting benefits. At age 66, (and again, waiting until age 66 is the key), you can file for benefits on your spouse’s record (that’s called “restricting the scope of your application”) and collect those benefits until age 70 when you would switch to 132 percent of your retirement rate. I apparently can’t repeat often enough that you can NOT employ both strategies. I will give a quick example. Tom is age 66. He wants to delay taking his own Social Security benefits until age 70. His wife, Becky, is 61 and plans to retire at age 62. She is potentially due a much smaller Social Security ben-

efit than her husband. Tom has two Social Security maximizing options. Option 1: He can “file and suspend” at age 66. Then when his wife turns 62, she can file for her own reduced benefits and claim any extra spousal benefits she is due on Tom’s record even while his benefits are in suspense. Option 2: He can do nothing at age 66, but wait a year until his wife is 62 years old. After Becky files for her own reduced retirement benefits, Tom can “file and restrict.” He would file for husband’s benefits on Becky’s record, getting an amount equal to one half of her age-66 rate (even though she took reduced retirement benefits). Then at age 70, he would file for his own retirement benefits and claim 132 percent of his own rate. And at that time, Becky could then file for wife’s benefits on Tom’s record to supplement her own reduced benefits. Tom will have to dig out a calculator and “run the numbers” to figure out which way to go. My educated guess is option two is the most lucrative. But to repeat one final time: he can NOT start out with option one and later switch to option two. To learn more about these strategies, send me an email asking for my fact sheet, “When to take your Social Security benefits.” I charge a small fee ($5) for the fact sheet, which I will explain when you send your email.

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 to read past columns and see features from other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate website at www.creators.com.

2. Who was stoned to death for preaching that Jesus was the Savior? a) Stephen b) Peter c) Paul d) Matthew 3. What village was known as “The City of David”? a) Jerusalem b) Bethlehem c) Antioch d) Babylon 4. How many men did Nebuchadnezzar see walking around in the fiery furnance? a) Two b) Three c) Four d) Five 5. From the Bible, who could be called “Mr. Patience”? a) Naaman b) Job c) Jairus d) Saul 6. Who owned a coat that had many colors? a) Hosea b) Moses c) Abraham d) Joseph (Answers on page 16) For comments or more Bible Trivia go to www.TriviaGuy.com

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born. Also included with the mark is the image of a knight’s helmet. There are about one dozen pans with lids. Each pan is heavy, with the thickness at the top being more than 1/4 inch. I hope you can tell me something about the history and value of my set of pans.

by Anne McCollam

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.

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