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As your new government takes office, we write to you about the human rights situation in South Korea and urge that you take ...
The tax deduction is not for all Social Security recipients. It would not apply to dependents, deceased workers’ survivors or disabled workers.
People who have just retired or are about to do so are vulnerable to sequence-of-returns risk, which means that a bad market ...
The Social Security program in the United States has been a cornerstone of financial security for millions. Over the years, ...
The reason Congress doesn’t fix the problem is because it involves increasing payroll taxes on large volumes of wealthier ...
Claiming benefits at age 62 means a permanent 30% reduction in monthly payments. In two short years, the oldest members of ...
The Social Security trust fund is not a real asset but a paper entry of IOUs that the government must borrow to cover, ...
States hold troves of sensitive personal data that were previously never shared with the federal government or across federal ...
Although the idea is not new, there appears to be renewed enthusiasm surrounding Social Security privatization. Privatization refers to shifting from a government-managed Social Security system to a ...
That fear might pressure some constituents to make such a consequential and perhaps financially detrimental decision ought to ...