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BHPD’s own Larry Brown will be a special guest at Community Lunch this Monday the 26th as he spreads the word about the new blue home address signs. He will be there to answer questions and explain how the program works. The program was recently...

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Todays Social Security column addresses questions about how spousal benefits are calculated, survivors benefits after taking reduced retirement benefits and…

Todays Social Security column addresses questions about how spousal benefit rates are calculated, how continuing to work can affect benefit rates and when…

Todays column addresses questions about potential survivors benefits available to spouses and children based on a workers record, how disability benefits are calculated and the availability of benefits based on an exs record.

Todays column addresses questions about whether any spousal benefit amount can be paid in addition to a retirement benefit, whether foreign pensions and be received in addition to Social Security benefits and the maximum benefit a person can receive based on their work record.

Todays column addresses questions about the earnings test, working and filing early, withdrawing a benefit after filing for it and proving marriage to and divorce from a deceased ex-spouse.

Todays column addresses questions about potential effects of having filed early, making sure your benefits are actually suspended even if a representative mistakenly says you cant suspend them and potentially available benefits on an exs record.

Todays column addresses questions about how spousal benefits are calculated after early retirement benefits when the record holder delays until 70, whether spousal benefits are 50% of age 70 benefits and when survivors benefits may become available to surviving spouses.

Todays column addresses questions about whether Congress will correct an issue caused by Covid-19 that could mean lower lifelong benefits for those born in 1960, potential repercussions of Social Security overpayments and withdrawing a retirement benefit and reverting to survivors benefits.