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Post subject: Social Security Follies Posted: Wed Nov 30, 2016 9:19 pm |
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Joined: Tue May 19, 2009 1:21 pm Posts: 71536
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The teen bride is too young for Medicare but my Part B premium is predicated on joint income from 2014 before the wife's retirement and I catch a $340+ premium that gets shaved off my SS dough every month along with taxes.
For 2017 my beloved big government was on a mission to grab even more dollars from me out of 2015 income but there is a retirement loophole that allows an old fart such as myself to pay less in Medicare Part B premiums if the bride has retired and she retired in 2015. Armed with tax returns, a notarized retirement letter from the wife's former employer and lots of ID we drove over to the Social Security Office to make our case.
It took two hours of waiting to sit down with a bureaucrat but we had our act together and presented every document and had the right answer to every question. My Medicare Part B premium is going to be slashed by more than $100 a month and that extra money will enable me to keep buying premium cat food, beer, smokes and days at the races via XPressbet.
On a serious note, as you get older and/or retire you need to dig into all the government benefits to which you are entitled. I have had to deal with my veterans tax exemption for property and schools with the county and my VA and Medicare entitlements with the Feds. Get organized and keep your "important papers" in a safe place. I still have my original 1964 SS card I got with my working papers when I was 16. Your original military separation records and old tax returns are priceless. You need this stuff when you're older.
_________________ The race doesn't always go to the swift and the strong but that's the way to bet.
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oldguy
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Post subject: Re: Social Security Follies Posted: Wed Dec 07, 2016 4:27 am |
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Joined: Tue May 19, 2009 12:42 pm Posts: 1928 Location: Mechanicville, NY
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I have my original SSN card too. I also married a young chick. Thanks for heads up
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1/8-pole
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Post subject: Re: Social Security Follies Posted: Sun Dec 11, 2016 1:50 pm |
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Joined: Wed May 20, 2009 2:25 pm Posts: 11598
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oldguy wrote: I have my original SSN card too. I also married a young chick. Thanks for heads up lol
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Post subject: Re: Social Security Follies Posted: Tue Dec 13, 2016 12:52 pm |
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Joined: Tue May 19, 2009 1:21 pm Posts: 71536
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It's almost like the older you get the more the government sees you as an old-fart used-up nuisance. And that's one of the reasons why the guy with the dead muskrat on his head is going to be the next president.
_________________ The race doesn't always go to the swift and the strong but that's the way to bet.
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