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• Those who completely abstain from alcohol, sometimes called teetotalers, are also known as nephalists, from the Greek word for sober, “nephalios.” Sitting through a boring meeting at work, yawning drowsily, inattentive, or daydreaming? You’re said to be an oscitant, from the Latin for yawning, “oscitans.” How about that hypocrite who tries to convince others that he has high moral standards? That person is Pecksniffian, named for a character in a Charles Dickens novel, Seth Pecksniff. • We all know what it is to quarrel with another in the heat of anger, but a quarrel is also a short, square-headed arrow used with a crossbow, or a square pane of glass in a lattice window. That makes sense since the Latin word for square is “quadrus.” In the world of politics, roorbacks are rampant. These are defamatory lies intended to damage another’s character. • From the Greek word for cave, “spelynx,” we get our word to define a cave explorer, spelunker. Those who keep changing their opinions toward a subject or cause are said to be tergiversating. The ADVERTIS Latin equivalent is “tergiversare,” to turn one’sChanges back. You probably Final DUE: won’t have a chance to use the word ucalegon. Please review carefully. Double check:  ADVERTIS It refers to a next-door neighbor whose house is on fire! Contact Tidbits representative Finalyour Changes DUE: i • Veronica Please mightOffice: be a girl’s name,Double but it’scheck: also val 760-320-0997 email: review carefully. P a bullfighting term, where the matador stands Contact your Tidbits representative completely still and slowly swings the cape im 760-320-0997 email: away from theOffice: bull. You probably know that valle widget is another word for gadget, but you El Paseo might not realize that a widgeon is aExchange duck withc/o M a reddish-brown head! BZ BW 13x October 4, 2020 • Vol. 1 • During bad weather, ancient Greek athletes exercised under a xyst, a long covered portico. The yarmulke, or skullcap worn by Jewish males, is also known as a zucchetto. □

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with amnesia. Due to Barrymore’s condition resulting from a head injury, Sandler must reintroduce himself and make her fall in love with him every single day, because her memory disappears every night as she sleeps. by • The film calls her memory impairment “Goldfield’s Syndrome,” but this neurological ailment is purely fictional, as there is no such condition. It is, however, similar to anterograde amnesia, the inability to form new memories, which can last for mere minutes up to weeks. But going to sleep isn’t related to this memory loss. • “Three Men and a Baby” was the Number One box office hit of 1987. It was rejected by two studios, TriStar and Universal, before it was picked up by Disney under their new “Touchstone Pictures” label. Movie Numbers: Turn to page 11

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You’re Not Being Cheated by Social Security I guess there just must be something about the human psyche that makes so many people feel they’re being cheated out of something that everyone else gets. And if my emails are any indication, that’s especially true when it comes to older adults and Social Security. So many of them seem to be convinced that the big, bad government is keeping them from getting some kind of Social Security benefit that everyone else qualifies for. And they are almost always wrong. Here are some examples from just this week’s email inbox. Q: As a retired Texas teacher, I’m being cheated out of widow’s benefits that ever y other woman can get. After my husband died, I called Social Security to apply for widow’s benefits. They told me that something called the “government pension offset” law prevents me from getting anything on my husband’s Social Security record. What a dumb law! A: Well, the law isn’t dumb, and you aren’t being cheated out of anything. Let me try to help you understand. First, you must realize that the rules have always said that a Social Security retirement benefit offsets any spousal or widow’s benefits that might be due. So, for example, if you are a woman who gets a $3,000 Social Security retirement benefit, but you are also due $2,800 in widow’s benefits, you won’t get any of those widow’s benefits because your own retirement check is higher. The government pension offset law merely says that any other public pension, like your teacher’s retirement pension, will also offset any Social Security benefits you might be due on your spouse’s record. And I know you’ll find this hard to believe, but you’re actually the one who can cheat the system just a bit. Why is that? Because when Congress wrote the government pension offset law, they cut teachers like you a deal. They said that only two-

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thirds of your teacher’s pension will offset any Social Security spousal benefits you might be due. To illustrate this, let’s go back to that woman who I said is getting $3,000 per month in a Social Security retirement pension. And because of that, she can’t get any of her husband’s $2,800 widow’s pension. But if that same woman was getting a $3,000 teacher’s retirement pension, only two-thirds of it, or $2,000, would be used to offset her widow’s benefit. In other words, if that woman was a retired Texas teacher, she would get her $3,000 teacher’s pension and she would also get $800 in Social Security widow’s benefits. If she wasn’t a teacher and was just getting a $3,000 Social Security check, she wouldn’t get a nickel in widow’s benefits. So maybe that woman would be justified in writing to me and telling me that she is being cheated out of Social Security benefits that only teachers can get. Q: I just reached my full retirement age of 66 and 2 months. I called Social Security and told them I wanted to file for spousal benefits on my wife’s record now and save my own until age 70. I have lots of friends who did this. But the Social Security agent told me the law had changed. Why is the government tr ying to cheat me out of benefits that all my friends can get?

ment age to earn as much money as they want and still be eligible for benefits. As part of that law, they mistakenly removed the dependency clause from spousal benefits. Once financial planners and other retirement experts figured this out, the Social Security “maximizing” craze began. Every retiree who was reaching full retirement age was advised to file for benefits on a spouse’s Social Security record and delay starting their own benefits until age 70, when they would get a 32% bonus added to their retirement checks. In a short while, we had millions of mostly well-to-do older adults claiming benefits as a poor dependent on a spouse’s Social Security account. It was quite the boondoggle. It took a while, but Congress eventually realized their mistake and they closed the overly generous and totally unintended loophole. They said anyone reaching full retirement age after January 2, 2020, could no longer claim “dependent” spousal benefits while delaying their own Social Security until a later date. So, I hope you see you aren’t being cheated out of anything. It’s all your friends who were lucky enough to turn 66 before January 2020 who are cheating the system, albeit legally. Q: As a single woman, I think the government is cheating me out of benefits that any married woman can get. My married older friends get their own Social Security, and they get benefits from their husband’s account.

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How to Manage an Inherited IRA from a Parent DEAR SAVVY SENIOR: What are the rules regarding inherited IRAs? When my mother died this year I inherited her traditional IRA and would like to know what I need to do to execute it properly. -- Confused Daughter Dear Confused: I’m very sorry about the loss of you mother. Inheriting an IRA from a parent has a unique set of rules you need to know, which will help you make the most of the money you inherit and avoid a tax-time surprise. Here are some basics you should know:

You can set up an inherited IRA with most any bank or brokerage firm. However, the easiest option may be to open your inherited IRA with the firm that held your mom’s account. Ten-Year Withdrawal Rule Due to the Secure Act, which was signed into law in December 2019, most (but not all) IRA beneficiaries must deplete an inherited IRA within ten years of the account owner’s death. This applies to inherited IRAs if the owner died after Dec. 31, 2019. There’s no limit on when or how often you withdraw money from the account, as long as the account is depleted by the end of the ten years. That is, you can choose to withdraw all of the money at once, you can leave it sitting there for a decade and then take it all out, or you can withdraw distributions over time. But be aware that with a traditional IRA, each withdrawal will be counted as income and subject to taxes in the year you make the withdrawal.

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