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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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		<title><![CDATA[Social Security and You: Questions About Spousal Benefits Never Stop]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[I've been saving up questions I've gotten from readers about benefits
for spouses. It's an issue I've covered a hundred times in this column.
But the questions still keep coming. So, here is column No. 100 -- one
about benefits paid to wives and ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/socialsecurityandyou/s-4008747</link>
 
    <pubDate>Feb/11/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Social Security and You: Some Oddball Questions]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[As I've pointed out before, I usually find myself answering the same
questions over and over again. But I've saved up a couple of oddball
questions -- and here they are. But first, I want to make it clear I am
not calling the people who emailed me...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/socialsecurityandyou/s-4001560</link>
 
    <pubDate>Feb/04/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Social Security and You: Your Friends and Neighbors Are Wrong!]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here is a bit of advice from a guy who gives Social Security advice for
a living. Don't take any advice from your friends or neighbors about
Social Security. It's always wrong!

OK, it's not always wrong. But I've learned from many thousands of
...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/socialsecurityandyou/s-3994089</link>
 
    <pubDate>Jan/28/2026</pubDate>
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