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at 8% per year and file for those at 70. Is that a good plan?

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A: It’s a bad plan. In fact, it’s an unwork able plan. The 8% per year benefit growth only applies to retirement benefits. Except for annual cost-of-living adjustments, widows benefits do not increase after full retirement age. So, you need to do just the opposite of what you are planning.

You should file for widows benefits now, and at 70, switch to 132% of your own retirement benefit.

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benefits somewhere between age 62 and 63. And that’s why you are getting a smaller amount. The rate for spousal benefits can be as low as about 33% if they are taken at age 62.

Q: My husband died last year, but my benefit never changed. (Mine was always slightly more than his.) But I know lots of widows who tell me they are getting both their own Social Security and widows benefits from their husband. Why is that?

A: The women who get Social Security from their own account and their husband’s account are women who have a very small Social Security check on their own. But if a woman’s own

I really don’t have any way of knowing this, Social Security is more than her husband’s rate, but I’m guessing the majority of my readers are she will only get her own. Here is a quick example women. And that guess is based on the fact that I A: Sorry, but you’ve got things all mixed of how that works. get far more emails from women than from men. up. A widow does not get a 50% rate. She gets any Mary’s own Social Security benefit is $1,200 Today’s column has questions covering a variety of where between about 70% and 100%, depending on per month.

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Q: I’ve always been told that a wife cial Security disability benefits? I’m 60 years

gets half of her husband’s Social Security. But

A: Gosh, what a jerk! Don’t worry. There I’m getting nowhere near that. My husband old and have fibromyalgia and other medical problems. When I called to apply for Social is absolutely nothing he can do that will prevent gets $1,850, and I only get $740.

Security disability benefits, I was told I didn’t you from getting any benefits you might be due. work enough. But I worked for about 20 years Assuming you are not due higher benefits on your A: This is probably the most common before and shortly after I got married. Then I

own record, then once he turns 62, you can file for Anthony Luis Madrigal, Esq.50% spousal rate women. The from question I get stopped working to raise my kids. So, isn’t 20 divorced wives benefits on his account. If you feel 1/16 pg toBW 6x Discount Rate until her full retirewho waits a woman applies years enough time to get Social Security? inclined to give Mr. Wonderful some good news, Oct. - Dec. 6, 2020 Vol. 16: #43 will bet my But- I#50 her•benefits. to start ment18age tell him that if you get benefits on his record, it next Social Security check that you started your

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M.D.

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tion of the likelihood of false positive results before getting the scan. You should also have been warned of the possible need for a biopsy and the possible financial costs associated with follow-up testing. ***

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ANSWER: A periodic eye exam in someone with no symptoms involves a screening test

We’ve been in a stressful period for many for vision changes related to aging and other eye long months, and now here come the holidays. It’s diseases, including glaucoma, age-related macu- going to be different this year: fewer (if any) family lar degeneration and cataracts. get-togethers, no parties, little shopping at stores

There are several commonsense rea... in other words, a potentially lonely time for many

DEAR DR. ROACH: I’m a 74-year-old sons for screening, but there has not been good veterans who are already sad or anxious or who female who smoked a pack a day for 40-plus evidence to support its use. The U.S. Preventive have PTSD. years, having quit smoking about 18 years Services Task Force does not make a recom The Department of Veterans Affairs has ago. As a precaution, I asked my primary mendation for or against screening. The Canadone a randomized evaluation of its Caring Letdoctor to order a screening CT scan, knowing dian Task Force recommends against it. ters Program to test the effects of sending a writthat I’m a candidate for lung cancer. The re By contrast, the American Academy of ten letter every month to veterans who have called sults showed a 3-mm nodule in one lung, and Ophthalmologists recommends a baseline exam the Veteran Crisis Line. One result was that when Tuesday, I was advised not to worry and that my doctor at age 40; visits every two to four 11/3/20 years from age asked, 85% of psychiatric patient veterans agreed would order another CT scan in Please six months.

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sages.) Granted, given the setting, most of them ANSWER: Medical professionals have said that contact with a mental health counselor or been attempting to screen for lung cancer for physician was preferred, but I expect that a mesBrian Henderson decades. Chest X-rays proved insensitive: By sage from a friend or acquaintance or another vet2020 BW North America Synd., Inc. 1/12(c)pg 26x disc. the time cancer could be seen on X-ray, it wascarefully.

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The overall measurements are 5 inches in diameter by 4 inches high.

Since I plan to pass it down to my daughter, I would like to be able to provide her with more information on its vintage and value.

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“Nakara” is the trade name of the ware. They also produced “Kelva” and “Wave Crest” lines. They purchased blown-molded glass blanks that were opaque from several glassmakers, including the Pairpoint Manufacturing Company located in New Bedford, Mass. Some of their blanks were also made in Europe. C.F. Monroe was in business from 1898 until World War I. Your dresser box was made around 1900 and can be seen selling around $500 to $600.

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I practiced scales, (UGH!) when I was a child in the 1940s. The pot and the pedestal are in two pieces, and both are unmarked. There are geese or swans at the ver y top. On the lower section is what looks like a Cyclops eye and at the base, there are heads of mythical creatures on two feet. I always felt the “eye” was watching me as I plodded through 60 minutes of daily practice.

It now belongs to me, but I know nothing about it. I have become quite fond of it and would like to learn more about its histor y. Can you help?

C. F. Monroe Company was located in Meriden, Conn., from 1898 to around World War I.

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Jardinieres and pedestals were popular in the early 1900s.

* On Nov. 19, 1915, British airman Richard Bell Davies performs a daring rescue, swooping down in his plane to whisk a downed fellow pilot from behind the Turkish lines. The British government awarded him the Victoria Cross. * On Nov. 21, 1934, teenager Ella Fitzgerald wins Amateur Night at Harlem’s Apollo Theater. Putting her name in the hat on a bet, she’d originally planned a dance number. History was made when she changed her mind and instead sang “The Object of My Affection.” * On Nov. 20, 1947, Princess Elizabeth marries distant cousin Philip Mountbatten, former prince of Greece and Denmark, who renounced his titles to marry the English princess. Mountbatten was made the duke of Edinburgh. * On Nov. 16, 1959, the smash musical “The Sound of Music” opens on Broadway to the consternation of the real Maria von Trapp and her stepchildren. Nearly all of the particulars she related in her 1949 book, “The Story of the Trapp Family Singers,” were ignored by the creators of the musical. * On Nov. 17, 1973, in the midst of the Watergate scandal that eventually ended his presidency, President Richard Nixon tells a group of newspaper editors that he is “not a crook.” * On Nov. 22, 1988, the Northrop B-2 “stealth” bomber is shown publicly for the first time at Air Force Plant 42 in Palmdale, California. Although the aircraft had a wingspan of nearly half a football field, its radar signal was as negligible as that of a bird. The B-2 also successfully evaded infrared, sound detectors and the visible eye.

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A plethora of jardinieres and matching pedestals were made in the early 1900s in both the United States and Europe. Most were marked with the name of the manufacturer. Those that were not make it difficult to identify their origins. Many were made in Ohio by McCoy Pottery, Weller Pottery, Roseville Pottery and Roseville Ransbottom Pottery. Original factory catalogs and other reference books are sources to help solve the mystery.

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• The 28-letter “antidisestablishmentarianism” is considered the longest “non-coined, nontechnical” word in most dictionaries. It was created to describe a political stance in the Church of England in the 19th century.

• The word “incomprehensibilities,” with 21 letters, has been named the longest word “in common usage.”

• The top ten most-used words are: “the,” “be,” “to,” “of,” “and,” “a,” “in,” “that,” “have,” and “I.” These ten words alone account for 25% of the total words we use.

• The most-used adjective in English is “good” but the word “bad” doesn’t show up until the 23rd slot, right below “public,” “few,” and “important.”

• The most-used verb in English is “be.” The most-used noun is “time” which dominated all other nouns including runners-up “person,” “year,” “way,” and “day.”

• C. S. Lewis coined the word “verbicide” to denote the killing of a word or the distortion of its original meaning. For instance, “hussy” comes from the word housewife and used to refer to the mistress of a household, not the disreputable woman it refers to today. To “quell” originally meant “to kill” and now it just means “to subdue.” “Meat” used to denote any solid food, not just the flesh of animals.

“Awful” used to mean “full of awe” rather than “terrible.” The word “artisan” used to mean “made by hand” but now means “quality.”

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