The amount of the annual cost of living adjustment, or COLA, applied to Social Security benefits is probably the most-awaited announcement that the Social Security Administration has the pleasure to make each year.While the COLA has a considerable impact on millions of SS beneficiaries across the country, the mechanics of the (mostly) regular raise are [...]
Archive for February, 2012
Special Treatment for Spouses?
We talk at length on our website about the strategies available to married persons, and it is implied that those strategies are not available to single persons. There are literally thousands of distinct paths that married persons can take with respect to their Social Security retirement benefits, whereas single persons have only one choice to [...]
Welcome to our Blog!
Thanks for reading the Social Security Choices blog! It’s certainly worth asking why we have a blog in the first place. We are a company that provides reports to clients hoping to maximize the amount they receive from Social Security. In addition to that, we already have a considerable amount of informational material pertaining to [...]