February 22, 2018 / 5:30 AM EST / MoneyWatch A vast majority (82 percent) of beneficiaries entitled to receive survivor benefits and their own benefits weren't informed of an option to claim a larger benefit. That's according to a recent audit report issued by the Social Security Administr...
The good news here is that Social Security's payroll tax, which is collected on earned income between $0.01 and $128,400, as of 2018, will keep money coming into Social Security's Trust. Unfortunately, it won't be enough to keep the current payout schedule sustainable beyond 2034. The ...
Social Security Contributions The social security contributions for health and unemployment paid by employees on their salaried income will be abolished. The rates are currently 0.75% and 2.4%, giving a total reduction of 3.15%. Many self-employed workers will also benefit from abolition of thealloc...
Social Security is avery important partof workers' retirement security, typically delivering more than half of most retirees' total income -- it isn't aPonzi scheme, as many people claim. Given Congress' inaction so far to fix the system, it behooves all of us to become informed citizens a...
Now in control of the House, Democrats have thrown their weight behind a measure that would extend and expand the program — largely by asking high earners to pony up, along with a gradual increase in the Social Security tax rate that applies to workers' income. ...
A SOCIAL SECURITY BONUS? You may have read the following sentence near the end of news articles about Social Security:One easy trick could pay you as much as $22,924 more... each year! Other articles mention a "$16,728 yearly bonus." ...
Social network sites are becoming essential to how people experience news. The social media feed is made up of a mixture of private and public postings, and news is intertwined with all sorts of activities. What people are exposed to partly depends on the behaviour of their fellow networkers....
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Roughly 66% of the 3000 crime-related tweets were manually found to be related to crime, or an expression of fear of crime, or a demand for justice or security. While this could be tested for different cities or countries or, for instance, times of the day or days of the week, it ...
(2014)found that people lurk rather than participate online due to external factors, personal preferences, the relationship between the user and the online group, and security and privacy reasons. Moreover, people's primary motivations to use social media, such as their need to belong and their...