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		<title><![CDATA[Social Security and You: Forbes Column Full of Holes]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Forbes Column Full of Holes

A recent edition of Forbes Magazine included an article called "Seven
Ways Social Security Benefits are Unfair." It went on to list various
ways that Social Security payouts are supposedly actuarially
indefensible and ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/socialsecurityandyou/s-4104728</link>
 
    <pubDate>May/13/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Social Security and You: The Good Old Days at a Social Security Office Were Not Necessarily So!]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[I sometimes find myself waxing nostalgic about the "good old days" of
working for the Social Security Administration. Even though when I
started working for the SSA in 1973, the agency was already almost 40
years old, I still think of that time ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/socialsecurityandyou/s-4090489</link>
 
    <pubDate>May/06/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Social Security and You: Identity Theft's Usually Not a Social Security Issue]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Q: My purse was stolen and now I worry that someone might be using my
Social Security number. I called the Social Security office and was told
to contact credit reporting agencies and possibly the police. And they
gave me some website to look up. ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/socialsecurityandyou/s-4084229</link>
 
    <pubDate>Apr/29/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Social Security and You: Lawyers and Social Security Disability]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Q: You have written past columns in which you said it is very difficult
to qualify for Social Security disability benefits. I think just the
opposite is true. It is so easy to get on the government disability
dole. After all, you see so many ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/socialsecurityandyou/s-4077438</link>
 
    <pubDate>Apr/22/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Social Security and You: An Old and Whacky Social Security Rant]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[A reader shared with me an email he got from an acquaintance. It is a
Social Security screed that is filled with half-baked ideas,
exaggerations and outright lies. The reader said he had never heard of
these allegations before. But I pointed out ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/socialsecurityandyou/s-4070561</link>
 
    <pubDate>Apr/15/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Social Security and You: When My Word Isn't Good Enough]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Readers are always asking me to explain various Social Security rules
and regulations. But sometimes they want more. They want to see
something official -- something in "black and white." In other words,
they want me to give them a legal reference...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/socialsecurityandyou/s-4064277</link>
 
    <pubDate>Apr/08/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Social Security and You: Two Social Security Benefits You Never Heard Of]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[I'm going to give you two words. And I will buy you lunch if you can
tell me what connection they have with Social Security.

Here are the words: Pneumoconiosis and Prouty. I bring these words up
because I got a "blast from the past" when I was ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/socialsecurityandyou/s-4057600</link>
 
    <pubDate>Apr/01/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Social Security and You: Explaining Social Security 'Claim' Numbers]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Q: I am a 78-year-old recent widow. I got my own Social Security number
when I was about 20. But since my husband and I started getting Social
Security benefits about 15 years ago, the correspondence I got from the
Social Security Administration ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/socialsecurityandyou/s-4050702</link>
 
    <pubDate>Mar/25/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Social Security and You: Raising the Cap on Taxable Income Has Drawbacks]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have probably written 100 columns about possible Social Security
reforms. Well here comes column number 101!

What is prompting my discussion of the issue this time is that a certain
reform proposal has been getting a lot of press lately. It is ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/socialsecurityandyou/s-4044251</link>
 
    <pubDate>Mar/18/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Social Security and You: Simple and Smart Update]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Readers are always asking me if I could recommend a good book about
Social Security. I always steer them to the best book out there. It's
called "Social Security Simple and Smart -- 10 easy-to-understand fact
sheets that will answer all your ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/socialsecurityandyou/s-4036616</link>
 
    <pubDate>Mar/11/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Social Security and You: Retroactive Benefits Not a Big Deal]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just don't get people's fascination with retroactive Social Security
retirement benefits. I can understand that on the surface, the idea of
getting a big retroactive check from the government might sound like a
financial windfall. But when you ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/socialsecurityandyou/s-4029371</link>
 
    <pubDate>Mar/04/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Social Security and You: Disability Claims Get Reviewed]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[For a couple of different reasons, a claim for Social Security
disability benefits may be reviewed. One is what the Social Security
Administration calls a "quality assurance review." The other is what the
agency calls a "continuing disability ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/socialsecurityandyou/s-4022007</link>
 
    <pubDate>Feb/25/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Social Security and You: Social Security Benefits Rarely Cut]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[In prior columns, I gave readers a brief history of Social Security by
highlighting the major changes to the program brought about by annual
amendments to the original Social Security law. Every once in a great
while, there is a dramatic change, ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/socialsecurityandyou/s-4014444</link>
 
    <pubDate>Feb/18/2026</pubDate>
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