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PoliticAverse

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1. People who can afford tax advisors than could explain strategies like that?

Reply to Peregrine Took (Original post)

Sat Oct 31, 2015, 05:23 PM

Oct 2015

For a recent extensive article on the "file and suspend" strategy (which is being curtailed in
the current budget agreement) see...
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=post&forum=1183&pid=1853

Note that the "file and suspend" issue came about after a year 2000 change in Social Security
to reduce penalties on people who were eligible for Social Security yet still wanted to work.

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I never heard of this Social Security "gaming" before....I wonder who is doing it? [View all] Peregrine Took Oct 2015 OP

People who can afford tax advisors than could explain strategies like that? PoliticAverse Oct 2015 #1

i plan to do this. mopinko Oct 2015 #2

You might want to double check your plan. SheilaT Oct 2015 #5

i have a small farm. that is enough for me to do. mopinko Oct 2015 #7

Unfortunately, you need to be very aware of age things. SheilaT Nov 2015 #8

i was really distressed that my divorce lawyer mopinko Nov 2015 #10

Someone who thinks you can get Medicare at age 62 SheilaT Nov 2015 #11

I don't like the file and suspend scheme. Although it won't help me, I would keep spousal benefit, Hoyt Oct 2015 #3

It's not gaming, and you really don't need an expensive advisor SheilaT Oct 2015 #4

But the change is not to the spousal or divorced spousal benefit but to the 'file and suspend' Bluenorthwest Oct 2015 #6

Nope. The file and suspend thing only matters to couples currently married. SheilaT Nov 2015 #9