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PublishedMarch 29, 2024
Opinion: Raising the retirement age won’t help anyone
Increasing the retirement age essentially singles out the very worse-off class of older adults – and makes them worse off.
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PublishedOctober 12, 2023
Social Security benefits will increase by 3.2% in 2024 as inflation moderates
The acting Social Security commissioner says the increase in benefits – estimated at $59 per month on average – 'will help millions of people keep up with expenses.'
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PublishedOctober 11, 2023
Social Security cost-of-living adjustment coming – but it won’t be as big as this year’s
Social Security's cost-of-living increase for 2024 will be announced Thursday.
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PublishedSeptember 10, 2023
One face, two identities: The story of Napoleon Gonzalez
The Etna man, who says he once served time for faking his own death, was convicted last month of several counts of fraud for using his dead brother's identity for more than half a century. This is how officials caught up with him.
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PublishedJuly 25, 2023
New law will put more dollars into pockets of older, low-income Mainers
About 19,000 Maine residents over 65, many of them low-income women living alone, will be made eligible for the program under the new law.
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PublishedOctober 15, 2022
Social Security boost seen as unlikely to help Dems at polls
Voters have ranked the economy as a higher priority than Social Security, with 71% of U.S. adults telling Pew Research Center in January that strengthening the economy was a top priority for the president.
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PublishedOctober 10, 2022
Social Security increase will help millions of kids, too
It’s not just older people who will get what’s expected to be the largest cost-of-living adjustment in Social Security benefits in 40 years.
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PublishedMay 24, 2022
Stock market slump unsettling Americans eyeing retirement
Many soon-to-be retirees are also terrified about inflation. Social Security has a built-in adjustment, but it doesn’t keep up with real inflation.
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PublishedMarch 23, 2021
Maine Social Security recipients still waiting for stimulus checks
According to published reports, payments for those receiving such benefits have not been prepared yet.
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PublishedOctober 22, 2020
Virus could deplete Social Security funds by 2030, report says
Prior to the pandemic, the Social Security Administration had estimated the the Social Security trust fund would be depleted by 2035.
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