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News Wrap: Cut cable disrupts Virginia’s online voter registration system
In our news wrap Tuesday, Virginia online voter registration was disrupted on its final day of availability. State officials blamed an accidental cut in a fiber optic cable for the outage, which could prevent thousands from registering to vote. Also,…
Social security checks to increase modestly in 2021 despite COVID-19 economic fallout
Social Security recipients will get a modest 1.3% cost-of living-increase in 2021, but that might be small comfort amid worries about the coronavirus and its consequences for older people.
Democrats say Trump’s payroll tax break weakens Social Security
Democrats say it's a signal that Trump would cut the social safety net, breaking a promise he made as a candidate in 2016 not to touch Social Security and Medicare.
Social Security and Medicare funds were already at risk. The virus crisis will deplete them faster
The financial condition of the government’s two biggest benefit programs remains shaky, with Medicare expected to become insolvent in just six years, while Social Security will be unable to pay full benefits starting in 2035, the government said Wednesday.
A recent Trump executive order could permit older employees to claim Social Security and continue contributing to their HSAs.
People often don’t think about the implications of how filing early for Social Security might affect their future entitlements to other Social Security benefits.
Can an ex-wife file for a Social Security benefit based on a former husband’s earnings record, even if he stated that she has no rights to his retirement benefits? "Such benefits have no impact on his own Social Security entitlements,"…
Seniors and advocates complain that the inflation yardstick used to determine the annual adjustment doesn't adequately reflect their costs, mainly for health care.
Warren’s proposal is based on a lot of solid evidence, writes columnist Philip Moeller, but it also seeks to fix larger-scale problems for which there are no easy solutions.
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