Understanding SSI (Supplemental Security Income)
Understanding SSI (Supplemental Security Income)

Author:

Publisher: DIANE Publishing

Published: 1998-03

Total Pages: 65

ISBN-13: 078814555X

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This publication informs advocates & others in interested agencies & organizations about supplemental security income (SSI) eligibility requirements & processes. It will assist you in helping people apply for, establish eligibility for, & continue to receive SSI benefits for as long as they remain eligible. This publication can also be used as a training manual & as a reference tool. Discusses those who are blind or disabled, living arrangements, overpayments, the appeals process, application process, eligibility requirements, SSI resources, documents you will need when you apply, work incentives, & much more.

2022 Social Security and Medicare Facts
2022 Social Security and Medicare Facts

Author: Michael D. Thomas

Publisher:

Published: 2021-12-14

Total Pages: 960

ISBN-13: 9781954096264

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Help your clients maximize their Social Security & Medicare benefits! Social Security & Medicare Facts is a one-stop guide for attorneys, CPAs, and retirement and financial planning professionals for advising on tax and policy changes affecting Social Security and Medicare. Organized in a unique and convenient question and answer format, this book helps professionals find exactly what they're looking for quickly and easily to solve clients' important planning issues in a timely manner. This resource features: Almost 1,300 easy-to-read questions and answers that comprehensively cover all aspects of Social Security & Medicare Effects of other types of income on Social Security benefits How to incorporate Social Security and Medicare benefits into planning techniques Social Security filing and tax requirements Explanations of Medicare coverage details Filing and timing requirements for Medicare coverage Integration of Medicare Advantage plans Information regarding Medicare claims and appeals process Information regarding Medigap insurance coverage And more! New in the 2022 Edition: Updated questions & answers on changes related to the CARES Act Effect of the American Rescue Plan (ARP) Act on Social Security Economic Impact Payments New and updated questions & answers with COVID-19 related changes Effect of the new changes in the Stark Law on Medicare Billing Coverage of the Program for All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE) New coverage of effect of loss of citizenship/permanent resident alien status on Social Security and ability of non-resident aliens to collect Enhanced coverage of the impact of divorce and remarriage on Social Security eligibility and benefits Effect of COVID financial assistance on Social Security income Expanded coverage of the Government Pension Offset (GPO) and the Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP) Expanded coverage of methods for curing overpayments from Social Security and SSDI Expanded coverage of non-covered items and services by Medicare Changes in coverages under Medicare Advantage, Medicare gap policies and Medicare appeals Expanded coverage of disability benefits for Social Security, military, government, and railroad workers Changes in Railroad worker coverage and the differences from Social Security Additional coverage of military retirement including expansion of coverage of the new Blended Retirement program, military disability pay, and coverage for National Guard and Reservists, including the effect of the CARES Act on the TSP program Additional coverage of changes in Survivor Benefit Plan - Dependency Indemnity Compensation 2022 inflation-adjusted numbers for Social Security and COLA increases Topics Covered: Determining retirement & disability benefits Filing for benefits Totalization agreements for workers with international ties Benefits under civil commitment orders Loss of Social Security benefits due to "excess" retirement earnings Social Security tax requirements Railroad Retirement benefits Benefits for federal government employees Medicare Part A, Hospital Insurance Medicare Part B, Medical Insurance Medicare Part C, Medicare Advantage Medicare Part D, Prescription Drug Insurance Medigap insurance Medicaid coverage and eligibility How to submit Medicare claims and file appeals Taxation of Social Security benefits Wages & self-employment income Benefits for service members & veterans And More! See the "Table of Contents" section for a full list of topics

Social Security Works!
Social Security Works!

Author: Nancy Altman

Publisher: New Press, The

Published: 2015-01-21

Total Pages: 321

ISBN-13: 1620970473

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A growing chorus of prominent voices in Congress and elsewhere are calling for the expansion of our Social Security system—people who know that Social Security will not “go broke” and does not add a penny to the national debt. Social Security Works! will amplify these voices and offer a powerful antidote to the three-decade-long, billionaire-funded campaign to make us believe that this vital institution is destined to collapse. It isn't. From the Silent Generation to Baby Boomers, from Generation X to Millennials and Generation Z, we all have a stake in understanding the real story about Social Security. Critical to addressing the looming retirement crisis that will affect two- thirds of today's workers, Social Security is a powerful program that can help stop the collapse of the middle class, lessen the pressure squeezing families from all directions, and help end the upward redistribution of wealth that has resulted in perilous levels of inequality. All Americans deserve to have dignified retirement years as well as an umbrella to protect them and their families in the event of disability or premature death. Sure to be a game-changer, Social Security Works! cogently presents the issues and sets forth both an agenda and a political strategy that will benefit us all. At stake are our values and the kind of country we want for ourselves and for those that follow.

Social Security Works For Everyone!
Social Security Works For Everyone!

Author: Nancy J. Altman

Publisher: The New Press

Published: 2021-04-13

Total Pages: 337

ISBN-13: 1620976234

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Social Security expansion is back on the agenda, at a time when Americans need it more than ever—here’s what it should look like (and why it matters to everyday people all over the country) “Altman and Kingson cut through the fog of calculated confusion and outright lies about Social Security.”—David Cay Johnston, Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and author The COVID-19 crisis has pulled the curtain back on America’s looming retirement income crisis, a fraying of the national community, and ever-worsening income inequality. Never before have so many people’s livelihoods and futures been thrown into flux. Now more than ever, expanding Social Security is essential to addressing these challenges. Social Security Works for Everyone!, an evolution of the argument Nancy J. Altman and Eric R. Kingson made in their acclaimed first book, Social Security Works!, presents the case for expanding Social Security, explaining why monthly benefits need to be increased; why Americans need national paid family leave, sick leave, and long term care protections; and how we can pay for it all. Don’t believe the nearly four-decade, billionaire-funded campaign to convince us that the program is destined to collapse. It isn’t. At a time when growing numbers of Americans are seeing beyond the false choice between financial security for working people and financial security for the federal government, this book eloquently makes the case that universal programs that benefit all Americans (yes, even the rich) make our country stronger and our lives more secure. Social Security works because it embodies the best of American values—the ones that will allow Americans to obtain financial security and weather the next crisis.

SOCIAL SECURITY MADE SIMPLE
SOCIAL SECURITY MADE SIMPLE

Author: Mike Piper

Publisher: Simple Subjects

Published: 2017-03-01

Total Pages: 130

ISBN-13: 9780997946512

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Find all of the following, explained in plain-English: How your Social Security retirement benefits, spousal benefits, and widow/widower benefits are calculated How your benefits are affected if you have a government pension or if you continue working while claiming Social Security How to decide when is the best age for you (and your spouse, if you're married) to claim Social Security in order to get the most out of your benefits Whether or not it makes sense to take Social Security early in order to invest the money How to check your earnings record on the Social Security Administration's website to make sure you're getting the full benefit you deserve How Social Security benefits are taxed and how this affects retirement tax planning Please note that this book does not cover Social Security disability benefits or Supplemental Security Income (SSI).

Privatizing Social Security
Privatizing Social Security

Author: Martin Feldstein

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2008-04-15

Total Pages: 484

ISBN-13: 0226241823

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This volume represents the most important work to date on one of the pressing policy issues of the moment: the privatization of social security. Although social security is facing enormous fiscal pressure in the face of an aging population, there has been relatively little published on the fundamentals of essential reform through privatization. Privatizing Social Security fills this void by studying the methods and problems involved in shifting from the current system to one based on mandatory saving in individual accounts. "Timely and important. . . . [Privatizing Social Security] presents a forceful case for a radical shift from the existing unfunded, pay-as-you-go single national program to a mandatory funded program with individual savings accounts. . . . An extensive analysis of how a privatized plan would work in the United States is supplemented with the experiences of five other countries that have privatized plans." —Library Journal "[A] high-powered collection of essays by top experts in the field."—Timothy Taylor, Public Interest

Social Security
Social Security

Author: Dean Baker

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 196

ISBN-13: 9780226035468

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An argument is made that social security is under threat from its implied "rescuers" due to a national frenzy and economically-motivated political manipulation.