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April Fools (from page one) became an annual event. The Associated Press ran this story as national news in many papers across the country in 1983. There was

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• Newspaper humorist John Medbury and his wife liked to throw extraordinary dinner parties. For one such soirée, half of their invitations required attire to be very formal, and half said dress was to be very informal. Half the guests showed up wearing tuxes and gowns, while the other half arrived wearing T-shirts, jeans and flip-flops.

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ing with dogs have earned me professional competency in the field of couples counseling. This was especially true this week, when I took a call from a man whose first words to me were: Ya gotta save my marriage.

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The problem? She doesn’t like dogs.

While one might question the wisdom of the “marry first, get to know each other later” school of thought for those willing to agree to such daunting terms as “till death do us part,” my years of experience as a marriage and family counselor, ahem, dog trainer, suggested something else was going on.

In talking with the two of them together, a far less insidious truth was revealed. It isn’t that she doesn’t like dogs. Period. It’s that she doesn’t like the behavior of dogs, generally, and of these dogs, particularly. An entirely different beast...

In his bachelor days, this man enjoyed sleeping with his dogs at night, cuddling with them on the sofa, sitting with them on his lap, and romping and roughhousing with them in his home. Were he insistent on bringing these rituals untamed into his marriage, he’d find himself divorced and for reasons on par with those of Woody Allen, who once said, “Basically, my wife was immature. I’d be at home in the bath, and she’d come in and sink my boats.”

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You Are Not Getting SSI. You Are Getting Social Security!

Every single day, I get emails from readers that say things like this: “My wife and I are getting SSI. And we would like to ask you some questions.”

Or this: “My SSI check is $2,140 per month. My wife’s SSI check is $1,800. Can she get any of my SSI?”

You know the uncomfortable feeling you get when someone scratches their fingernails on a chalkboard? Well, that’s how I feel when I get emails like this. Why does this bother me so? Because these folks are not getting SSI. They are getting Social Security benefits. And there is a HUGE difference, which I will explain.

Most people know what Social Security is.

You work. You pay taxes. And then, when you retire or become disabled, you start getting Social Security checks based on what you paid into the system.

Or if you die, your widow, widower or minor children start getting monthly benefits -- again, based on what you paid into Social Security during your working years.

But it is obvious to me, based on the reader mail I get, that most people do not know what SSI is. It stands for Supplemental Security Income. It is a federal welfare program that pays a small monthly stipend to people who are 65 or older who are very

1. The book of Gethsemane is in the a) Old Testament b) New Testament c) Neither 2. What signal did Judas Iscariot use to betray Jesus to the guards who came to arrest him? a) Pointed b) Bowed at his feet c) Kissed him d) Greeted him by name 3. Jesus was arrested in what garden that sat at the base of the Mount of Olives? a) Shulamite b) Gethsemane c) Eden d) Solomon 4. In John 11:45-53, who was the high priest who called for Jesus' death? a) Caiaphas b) Elioneus c) Joazar d) Herod 5. How many people saw Jesus and heard him speak after his resurrection? a) None b) 7 c) 12 d) More than 500 6. From John 20, which disciple would not believe Jesus had risen unless he could see for himself the wounds in his hands, feet and side? a) Peter b) Andrew c) Bartholomew d) Thomas (Answers (Answerson onpage page12) 16) For comments or more Bible Trivia go to www.TriviaGuy.com © 2021 King Features Features Synd., Inc. 2019 King Inc.

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So, please, dear readers, repeat after me: poor, or to people who are under 65 but disabled Social Security is not SSI, and SSI is not Social Secuand very poor. How poor? Usually, they have to have a monthly income of less than about $800 to rity! If you use the wrong terms when asking questions, you’re going to get wrong answers. qualify for SSI payments.

I’ve got a little space left, and I want to share

Many people confuse SSI with Social Secu- this story about the birth of the SSI program. Back rity for a variety of reasons. One is the name. Supplemental Security Income just sounds like some in the 1970s, President Richard Nixon’s adminiskind of supplemental Social Security program. It is tration thought it would be a good idea if instead of 50 different state welfare programs, as we had NOT.

Another reason for the confusion is the fact at the time, it would be better to have one national that the Social Security Administration runs the SSI program with the same basic eligibility rules applyprogram for the federal government. But that is all ing to everyone no matter where they lived. So, in they do. They manage the program. To repeat: SSI 1973, they scrapped the 50 separate programs and is not a Social Security benefit. And SSI payments created one national welfare program for the counare not paid for out of Social Security funds. The try. They decided to let the Social Security Adminismoney for SSI comes out of the government’s gen- tration run the program because it already had lots eral operating funds. In fact, Social Security’s trust of experience paying monthly benefits to millions funds are even reimbursed from the general funds of Americans.

But then, in my opinion, they made one for the costs of administering the SSI program. huge mistake.

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