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Ask Bob: How to Break a Social Security Logjam

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By Robert Powell, CFP®, Retirement Daily, October 20, 2020

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I need some serious help. I was approved for Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) in May 2020. I called to determine if I needed to keep Medicare since I had private insurance through my wife on the Marketplace.

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No bump likely in Social Security checks next year

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By Darla Mercado, July 18, 2016, CNBC

Retirees, beware: Your Social Security retirement check might not grow at all next year.

The Board of Trustees of the Social Security Trust Funds estimates that the 2017 cost-of-living-adjustment likely will be very small to flat: from 0.7 percent down to zero.

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