Month: April 2023

Social Security is routinely clawing back benefits it claims it paid by mistake over years if not decades. This policy is cruel and unusual. It’s based on Social Security’s despicable mantra: Our mistake is your mistake. It leaves 77 million Social Security recipients living in constant fear of having benefits received for years, if not
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Social Security benefits automatically convert to standard retirement benefits at full retirement age (FRA) and this retirement benefit can then be suspended. Here’s the story of one disability benefit recipient’s frustrating attempts to do so. I asked James (a pseudonym) to write up his experience in trying to suspend his retirement benefit starting with his
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LONDON — The U.K. economy flatlined in February as widespread industrial action and persistently high inflation stymied activity. Data on Thursday showed a steady GDP in February, missing consensus expectations of 0.1% growth. Both the services and production sectors contracted, partly offset by a record 2.4% expansion in construction.  This followed an upwardly revised 0.4%
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The Social Security Administration office in Brownsville, Texas. Robert Daemmrich Photography Inc | Corbis Historical | Getty Images Long wait times for beneficiaries seeking help from the Social Security Administration have become more common since the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, even prompting a congressional hearing in 2022 to address the issue. Beneficiaries who call
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In this article RENT Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT A worker moves clothing in the storage area at Rent the Runway’s “Dream Fulfillment Center” in Secaucus, New Jersey, U.S., September 11, 2019. Andrew Kelly | Reuters Rent the Runway’s losses narrowed in its fiscal fourth-quarter earnings reported Wednesday as the digital retailer continues to
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When Bethenny Frankel joined the cast of “The Real Housewives of New York City,” she had no business savvy and no money, she says — but she knew when a contract didn’t feel right. The reality TV alumna, who later founded the Skinnygirl lifestyle brand and became a self-made millionaire entrepreneur, agreed to a payment
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In this article BRK.B Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Warren Buffett said he was “confounded” by the opportunity to buy into five Japanese trading houses two years ago. “I was confounded by the fact that we could buy into these companies,” Buffett told CNBC’s Becky Quick on “Squawk Box” in an interview from Tokyo
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