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WASHINGTON (TNS) — Heading into Tax Day, if you listen to progressive policymakers for a few minutes, you’ll likely hear that few problems on Earth ca...

DEAR RUSTY: My wife and I are collecting Social Security. We both started receiving SS at 62 years old. That said, we get by on a tight budget. A reti...

DEAR RUSTY: I hope we haven't made a mistake! My wife just applied for her Social Security benefit. She was born in May 1962, and the estimated amount...

DEAR RUSTY: I am a married woman, at my full retirement age, and the primary earner in my marriage. How do I know if I should take my Social Security ...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — “Inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon,” Milton Friedman once said. In other words, don’t blame greed — blame th...

DEAR RUSTY: Please explain the Medicare premium increase based on income reported to Social Security. For those of us who waited to draw Social Securi...

Progressives who argue that “the rich” should pay their “fair share” of income taxes are inadvertently arguing they should get a tax cut. The IRS rece...

DEAR RUSTY: I am past my Social Security full retirement age, and I am still working. I am married and we file our income tax jointly. My husband is 6...

DEAR RUSTY: I just turned 69 years old in August and am still working full-time. I signed up for Medicare Part A but, it is my secondary insurance bec...

DEAR RUSTY: This is a matter that I find particularly irksome. My wife — a retired teacher — was told that, should I predecease her, she is not eligib...

AFFORDABLE: While inflation has slowed, high prices are still eating into household budgets — like $5 to $8 for a box of cereal. Home prices, rent and...

Free money makes people less likely to work. If common sense doesn’t convince you of that, a new study should. In July, a National Bureau of Economic ...

HARRISBURG (TNS) — Due to a glitch in the system, some Americans might receive two Social Security payments in August. And it’s a rare occasion, so fe...

Some disabled Americans on Social Security aren’t out of work solely because of their medical condition. Social Security payments themselves may “also...

DEAR RUSTY: I’m just trying to figure out how to determine whether to retire at 65 or 67 and, if I retire, approximately how much could I make outside...

DEAR RUSTY: I hope you can give me some information about a question that has come up in my family. My husband is retired and has reached full retirem...

HARRISBURG — Treasurer Stacy Garrity announced the launch of the redesigned PA ABLE Savings Program website, paable.gov . The new website, Garrity sai...

DEAR RUSTY: I try to read your article each week and appreciate the information you provide. I am 62 and considering my retirement options and when I ...

Disabled veterans in Pennsylvania no longer have to claim their monthly benefits as income when applying for state aid programs. Gov. Josh Shapiro sig...

PITTSBURGH (TNS) — As the pandemic plunged families into financial uncertainty, even temporary safety nets and bigger paychecks haven’t been enough to...