social security

Q: I am 73 and still working part time. I took my Social Security at age 66.

Sometimes readers take me to task for not explaining a particular facet of the law when I write a column about some Social Security topic or another.

My wife and I and a group of our neighbors were chatting the other day, and it dawned on us that there are eight houses in a row on our block in which each of the couples has been married for more

Sometimes people will write to me complaining that the government, specifically the Social Security Administration, has messed up and cheated them out of benefits they might have been due.

I just finished reading the best book about Social Security that I have ever read.

This is going to be a column about a special procedure that the Social Security Administration routinely uses that is intended to help people by protecting their rights to possible benefits.

I’m sure lots of my readers are always looking for Social Security information online. So am I.

I’m always amazed by the number of emails I get from people who have been getting benefits for 10 years, or 20 years, or even more – and now they are coming to me with questions about their benefit

Q: I have a neighbor who is in his early 50s. He is a pilot for a major airline and makes pretty good money. He and his wife have several children, one of whom has Down syndrome.

Sometimes I think my wife and I are the last middle-class couple in the country who haven’t hired a maid to clean the house.