Retirement
His Rent Rose $500 a Month and His Social Security Record Had Years of Gaps — At 54, He Started Counting
A 54-year-old IT contractor discovered years of gaps in his Social Security earnings record after…
Retirement
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Retirement
A 31-Year-Old Engineer With No Retirement Savings Just Discovered His SSA Earnings Record Was Wrong for Three Years
A 31-year-old petroleum engineer discovered identity theft had corrupted his SSA earnings record. His story…
Retirement
She Was 65, Her Workers Comp Was Denied, and Her Social Security Earnings Record Had Errors — This Is What Happened
Roughly 40 percent of Americans who claim Social Security retirement benefits do so before reaching…
Retirement
Her Social Security Benefit Was Being Cut by a Rule She’d Never Heard Of — At 65, a New Law Finally Changed Her Math
Roughly 3.2 million Social Security beneficiaries saw their monthly checks reduced for years by a…
Retirement
She Filed for Social Security at 67 — Then Learned Her Graduate School Debt Could Still Follow Her Into Retirement
The waiting room at the Social Security Administration field office on North Charles Street in…
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This Fresno Uber Driver Was Counting on Social Security at 67 — Her Projected Benefit Shocked Her
The window for fixing a Social Security earnings record does not stay open forever —…
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At 64 With a Leaking Roof and Rising Costs, Patricia Had to Make the Hardest Social Security Call of Her Life
Have you ever avoided opening a bill because you already knew the number inside would…
Retirement
She’s 60, Self-Employed, and Just Found Out Her Social Security Estimate Was Off by $400 a Month
The Social Security Administration encourages workers to review their estimated benefits at least once a…
Retirement
He Checked His Social Security Record at 56 and Found Years of Missing Earnings — The Fix Took More Than He Expected
The first time Warren Matsuda logged into his my Social Security account, he was sitting…
Retirement
He Saved $12,000 by Age 52 and Just Found Out His Ex Hid $14,000 in Debt — Now He’s Staring at His Social Security Statement
It was a Sunday afternoon in late February when I first met Lester Valdez, standing…