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It’s also important to know that if you do lose some or all of your Social Security benefits because of the earning limits, they aren’t lost forever. When you reach full retirement age, your benefits will be recalculated to a higher amount to make up for what was withheld.

For more information on how working can affect your Social Security benefits, see www.SSA. gov/benefits/retirement/planner/ whileworking.html.

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In addition to the Social Security rules, you need to factor in Uncle Sam too. Because working increases your income, it might make your Social Security bene

For information, call the IRS at 800-829-3676 and ask them to mail you a free copy of publication 915 — “Social Security and Equivalent Railroad Retirement Benefits,” or you can see it online at www.IRS.gov/pub/irs-pdf/ p915.pdf.

In addition to the federal government, 12 states — Colorado, Connecticut, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, Rhode Island, Utah, Vermont and West Virginia — tax Social Security benefits to some extent too. If you live in one of these states, you’ll need to check with your state tax agency for details.

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Pleasant Street in Bennington, certain areas of it, are hotspots. We all know that, but this would confirm that. But what is it you’re going to do to alleviate the problem in those areas?”

Morrison told VTDigger that is the ultimate goal of the map: to identify which communities need more resources, whether that’s bolstering the police force or improving social services.

“We start all of our conversations from the perspective that we can’t enforce our way out of a violent crime problem,” Morrison said. “Because if enforcement is the only tool we have in the box, then we’ll knock off one actor or two actors or a piece of a criminal enterprise, and there will just be the next wave coming along through.”

Across the state, according to the map, domestic violence is the most common type of violent crime reported to police. There were 1,592 domestic violence-related calls statewide in the past six months, the map and corresponding data show.

Asked why domestic violence data was included in the heat map imagery, Morrison said the map is still “a work in progress.” But she also said that including such data is “a great opportunity to be transparent with our community.”

“While domestic violence is not necessarily the thing that makes you feel unsafe walking down the street, this is an opportunity to shine a spotlight on the fact that we have a huge problem — and we’ve always had a huge problem, as long as I’ve been in law enforcement,” Morrison said. “And if we’re going to talk

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Join our dedicated team and together we’ll build a community where everyone participates and belongs https://ccs-vt.org/current-openings/ about violence, I don’t know how we can not talk about violence that happens behind closed doors, because the effects of it are just as devastating. And candidly, those who witnessed it, or are victims of it, or perpetrate domestic violence, are undoubtedly involved in other bad outcomes, shall we say.”

The Department of Public Safety plans to launch the map to the public in the next 60 to 90 days, starting with still screenshots. Eventually, Morrison said, the department wants Vermonters to interact with the map, zooming in and out of specific communities, down to the 100 block of a street.

The department has tried to balance transparency with concerns over privacy, Morrison said. Displaying a street block in Burlington offers a decent level of anonymity, she said, but in remote areas, that could be enough information to identify a specific household.

“We’re trying to balance all of these considerations about privacy, around transparency, about people being able to use the information in a way that suits their needs, instead of us just giving them what we think they want or need,” Morrison said. “That’s the goal, ultimately. And it’s, as I said, it’s a work in progress. We’re nowhere near done.”

Morrison said the inspiration behind the heat map was Vermont’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic, specifically the state Department of Health’s case dashboard, which was previously updated with daily case counts. Morrison said the Department of Public Safety and the governor’s office were inspired to “extend our pandemic-style response into this type of work.”

“Obviously, violent crime is not a pandemic. You can’t just give people vaccination shots and make it go away,” she said. “But the point of the governor’s directive was to pluck the best practices and lessons from the way we responded to the pandemic, and apply it into this space.”

The state Department of Health stopped updating the Covid-19 dashboard in May. Health Commissioner Mark Levine told reporters at the time that the real-time data ceased being useful, and encouraged taking a holistic approach to pandemic response.

“I always caution against a daily look at anything and drawing a conclusion from it, because it really doesn’t make sense unless you start to look at where the trends are, and the trends take time to develop,” Levine said at the time. “If there are people who have an addiction to going on the case dashboard every day and waking up and deciding if they should put a mask on or not, that’s probably not the way that (they) should be approaching this.” https://ccs-vt.org/current-openings/