Expert Perspective - Rewards
by Garry Rogers
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August 24th, 2010
Expert Perspective by Grahall’s OmniMedia Editorial Board
The results of a CNN poll on Social Security (CNN poll: Majority Say They Don’t Count on Social Security) suggest, not surprisingly, that almost two thirds “of Americans say the program won’t last another 70 years.” The article says that: “For the first time in nearly 30 years, Social Security will pay out more benefits than it receives in payroll taxes both this year and in 2011. By 2015, the program is expected regularly operate with an annual deficit.”
Exacerbating this problem is a “run on the bank” mentality where many of those who are eligible for early age Social Security, seeing that the future for this program is dim, want to start collecting ASAP!
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Newsfeeds
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July 21st, 2009
Published in The Wall Street Journal July 21, 2009 by Ellen E. Schultz
The nation’s wealth gap is widening amid an uproar about lofty pay packages in the financial world.
Executives and other highly compensated employees now receive more than one-third of all pay in the U.S., according to a Wall Street Journal analysis of Social Security Administration data — without counting billions of dollars more in pay that remains off federal radar screens that measure wages and salaries.
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Expert Perspective
by Robert Cirkiel
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May 12th, 2009
Grahall’s Robert Cirkeil shares some thoughts on the Social Security Adminstration’s SUMMARY OF THE 2009 ANNUAL REPORTS
For years, older men would marry younger women. More recently, older women have been marrying younger men. Historically this was done for love (or lust). Now the mature crowd is searching for youthful spouses for one reason and one reason only – MEDICAL BENEFITS! It would seem that this is the only way seniors can continue to have medical coverage. Private sector employers don’t provide medical coverage to retirees like they used to thanks to changes in the accounting rules.
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Tags: Health Care Reform, Health Insurance, Medicare, Social Security
Expert Perspective by Grahall’s OmniMedia Editorial Board