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Social security 101 : from medicare to spousal benefits, an essential primer on government retirement aid / Alfred Mill.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Avon, Massachusetts : Adams Media, [2016]Description: 240 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 19 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781440599224
  • 144059922X
Other title:
  • Social security one hundred one
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Online version:: Social security 101DDC classification:
  • 368.4/300973 23
LOC classification:
  • HD7125 .M49 2016
Contents:
What is Social Security? -- The beginnings of Social Security -- The history of retirement -- The rise of America's middle class -- Funding Social Security -- Fixing Social Security -- Getting a Social Security card -- Protecting your Social Security number -- Qualifications for receiving benefits -- Your full retirement age -- Getting started with Social Security -- Estimating your benefits -- Disability benefits -- Supplemental Security Income -- Children with disabilities -- Spousal benefits -- Survivors benefits -- Other beneficiaries -- Benefits for children -- Taxes on Social Security benefits -- Working in retirement -- Taking benefits early -- Claiming benefits later -- If you're self-employed -- Deemed filing -- Windfall elimination provision -- Government pension offset -- The retroactive lump-sum option -- Stopping your benefits -- Appealing an SSA decision -- Health and Social Security -- Medicare -- Extra help with prescription costs -- Medicare Advantage -- Medicaid -- Social Security and your retirement -- Using a financial planner -- Planning for tomorrow -- Finding happiness in retirement -- Your dream retirement -- If a door closes -- The new retirement.
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Book Book Bedford Public Library Non-Fiction Non-Fiction 368.43 MIL Available 32500001717355
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Learn about Social Security and plan for your future with the help of this comprehensive and accessible guide to everything you need to know about Social Security.

Understanding Social Security can be overwhelming at times and dense government websites don't help. Fortunately, Social Security 101 can help with easy-to-understand explanations and lessons that keep you engaged as you learn all you need to know about the federal program that's been around since the Great Depression. Social Security 101 will give you the most up-to-date information on this government program, such as:

-Getting a Social Security card

-Applying for benefits

-Estimating your benefits

-Disability benefits

-Medicare

-401(k) plans for young adults

Use this guide to plan for the future so that you'll be comfortable in retirement. With the knowledge gained from this book, you'll feel more secure in your future. Whether you want to learn about calculating your retirement age or estimating your projected payments, Social Security 101 has all the answers--even the ones you didn't know you were looking for.

Includes index.

What is Social Security? -- The beginnings of Social Security -- The history of retirement -- The rise of America's middle class -- Funding Social Security -- Fixing Social Security -- Getting a Social Security card -- Protecting your Social Security number -- Qualifications for receiving benefits -- Your full retirement age -- Getting started with Social Security -- Estimating your benefits -- Disability benefits -- Supplemental Security Income -- Children with disabilities -- Spousal benefits -- Survivors benefits -- Other beneficiaries -- Benefits for children -- Taxes on Social Security benefits -- Working in retirement -- Taking benefits early -- Claiming benefits later -- If you're self-employed -- Deemed filing -- Windfall elimination provision -- Government pension offset -- The retroactive lump-sum option -- Stopping your benefits -- Appealing an SSA decision -- Health and Social Security -- Medicare -- Extra help with prescription costs -- Medicare Advantage -- Medicaid -- Social Security and your retirement -- Using a financial planner -- Planning for tomorrow -- Finding happiness in retirement -- Your dream retirement -- If a door closes -- The new retirement.

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Library Journal Review

Mill's (Economics 101) extraordinarily detailed guide offers a highly organized handbook in plain English to the Social Security program, which, he writes, "74 percent of single people and 52 percent of married couples" will depend on "for more than half of their income in retirement." He provides an enjoyable discussion of the idea of retirement and gives a surprisingly readable history lesson on the creation of Social Security and other government programs that surround it, including Medicare, Medicaid, and disability and Supplemental Security Income (SSI). This book walks readers through the many (and sometimes Byzantine) rules and regulations governing the Social Security application and eligibility process, laying out different scenarios and situations for retirees at different income levels and life stages. Throughout, it features pull-out vignettes with interesting stories and data points, and keeps current with references to recent newsworthy events occurring in the last year. VERDICT Readers approaching retirement age and fans of Jane Bryant Quinn's How To Make Your Money Last: The Indispensable Retirement Guide will appreciate this exhaustively researched and highly useful reference.-Doug Diesenhaus, Univ. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill © Copyright 2016. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Alfred Mill has a deep interest in personal finance and economics. He is the author of Personal Finance 101 , Economics 101 , and Social Security 101 .
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