Get what's yours : the secrets to maxing out your social security
Record details
- ISBN: 9781476772295 (hardcover)
- ISBN: 1476772290 (hardcover)
- ISBN: 9781476772318 (ebook)
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Physical Description:
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324 pages ; 22 cm - Edition: First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
- Publisher: New York : Simon & Schuster, 2015.
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (299-306) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Getting Paul nearly $50,000 in extra benefits over tennis -- Life's biggest danger isn't dying, it's living -- Social security: From A to Zzzzzzzz -- Three general rules to maximize your lifetime benefits -- Strategies to follow the three rules -- Be careful taking social security's advice -- The benefits of not retiring -- Playing social security's marital status game -- Married with benefits -- Gay couples get to claim what's theirs -- Divorced? Dark clouds and silver linings -- Widowed? Why social security is a major women's issue -- Never married or divorced too soon -- Hidden benefits for the disabled -- Government pensions and windfall penalties -- 50 good-news secrets to higher lifetime benefits -- 25 bad-news gotchas that can reduce your benefits forever -- Whither social security? |
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Subject: | Social security United States Retirement income United States |
Available copies
- 1 of 1 copy available at Kirtland Community College.
Holds
- 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Kirtland Community College Library | HD 7125 .K68 2015 | 30775305486178 | General Collection | Available | - |
Library Journal Review
Get What's Yours : The Secrets to Maxing Out Your Social Security
Library Journal
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According to this information-dense book, deciding when to take one's Social Security benefit is more complex than many Americans envision. Turning a difficult and confusing subject into something the average American can understand, Kotlikoff, Philip Moeller, and Paul Solman argue against break-even calculations even as they discuss full retirement age, multiple benefits (family maximum, spousal, divorced spouse, survivorship, child's, and disability) and deeming. While Jeff Cummings's well-modulated, expressive, and nicely paced voice delivers a thought-provoking reading of a difficult subject, heavy reliance on acronyms, figures, Social Security rules, and exceptions to those rules mean that the work does not translate well to the audio format; listeners will want to view examples and numbers to comprehend fully the book's thesis. The bonus disk contains basic statistics such as a longevity table, a representative family's benefits and recommended strategy for tapping those benefits, early retirement reduction table, and overall basic Social Security statistics for 2013 and 2014. VERDICT This well-written book will be of interest to people approaching retirement and Social Security, but it is best suited to print.--Laurie -Selwyn, formerly with Grayson Cty. Law Lib., -Sherman, TX © Copyright 2015. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Publishers Weekly Review
Get What's Yours : The Secrets to Maxing Out Your Social Security
Publishers Weekly
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Social Security is widely mistrusted and little understood by most Americans, and with good reason: the program's operating manual contains 2,728 core rules, and thousands of additional instructions. This can't-miss guide to the system comes from Kotlikoff, a Boston University economist; Moller, an expert on aging; and Solman, a PBS NewsHour economics correspondent. After a conversation among all three about their own retirement planning revealed how confusing the system is, they set out to write a book pointing out traps and ways to maximize the reader's retirement benefits. With a little tough love (reminding readers not to overestimate their own knowledge or objectivity), they explain the ins and outs of lesser-known features, such as survivor and spousal benefits. Readers are also led through the decision of whether to claim early or delay retirement entirely, the intricacies of marital-status changes, and the options for those who are married, divorced, widowed, or single. The writing is detail heavy but clear enough for even the most intimidated reader, with a concluding cheat sheet helpfully summing up the book's suggestions. The authors' palpable fervor to help readers get back what they've paid will energize readers to claim what is rightfully theirs. Agent: Alice Martell, Martell Agency. (Feb.) © Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.