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Here's How Much Your Social Security Check May Increase in 2021
The Social Security Administration won’t announce its next annual cost-of-living adjustment until October, but there is a reliable way to predict the number ahead of time. The Senior Citizens League is a nonpartisan advocacy group for older Americans and has a history of accurately forecasting the annual change. The group estimates that the Social Security COLA for 2021 could...
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Here Are the Top Baby Names of the Decade
The Social Security Administration’s list of the top baby names of the decade is out. The SSA’s list comes from analyzing the names of the more than 35 million babies born between 2010 and 2018. It ranks the 200 most popular names for both boys and girls.
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Social Security: Retiree Checks to Rise 1.6% in 2020
Millions of retirees will get a modest 1.6% cost-of-living increase from Social Security in 2020, an uptick with potential political consequences in an election year when Democrats are pushing more generous inflation protection. The increase amounts to $24 a month for the average retired worker, according to estimates released Thursday by the Social Security Administration. Following a significant boost this...
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Georgia Couple Poses as LA Sheriff's Deputies in $16K Scam
Authorities say a Georgia couple, posing as Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies, bilked six victims out of $16,000 in gift cards in a telephone fraud scam.
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Officials Warn of Social Security Scam Calls
Apparent social security scammers have been making the rounds and calling people warning them that their accounts are about to be suspended. Experts say dn’t fall for it.
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Have You Received a Call Regarding Your Social Security?
Social Security scam calls have been going around and scam experts advise people to always hang up or simply not answer. Gordon Tokumatsu reports for the NBC4 News at 5 p.m. on Thursday, July 11, 2019.
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Senate Report Sounds Alarm on Cybersecurity Failures
Federal agencies responsible for safeguarding millions of Americans’ security, public safety and personal data have failed to apply even basic defenses to cyberattacks, Senate investigators said Tuesday. The alarming warning comes after a 10-month review of 10 years of inspector general’s reports by the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations of the Senate Homeland Security Committee, NBC News reported.
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He Got the FBI to Test ‘Bigfoot' Hair in the 1970s — and This 93-Year-Old Man Is Still Searching for Sasquatch
Yeti persisted. An Oregon man intent on proving the existence of the mythical creatures known as Bigfoot, Sasquatch, the Abominable Snowman and Yeti in 1976 managed to get the FBI to test hair and tissue samples that he believed might help his case, according to newly released records. “The FBI has analyzed hair in connection with the search for Sasquatch,...
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Name of Thrones: Parents are Naming Their Kids After Favorite ‘GoT' Characters
For the 319 baby girls born and named Lyanna last year, “Game of Thrones” will never end. More parents are bestowing “Game of Thrones” character names on their children than ever, according to Social Security Administration data published Friday. Excluding the Jons and Jaimes, more than 4,500 children were given such names in 2018, up from the 3,800-plus in 2017...
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Phone Scammers Pose as Social Security Administration in Ventura County
The Thousand Oaks Police Department warns residents of phone scammers who claim to be from the Social Security Administration and seek their personal information, threatening to block their social security number and seize their bank accounts.
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Trump Organization to Use E-Verify for Worker Status Checks
The Trump Organization, responding to claims that some of its workers were in the U.S. illegally, said on Wednesday that it will use the E-Verify electronic system at all of its properties to check employees’ documentation. A lawyer for a dozen immigrant workers at the Trump National Golf Club in New York’s Westchester County said recently that they were fired...
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‘I Kept on Praying': Victim Recalls Philadelphia's ‘Basement of Horrors'
In an exclusive interview, one of the victims in the horrifying 2011 “basement of horrors” tells NBC10 how desperate she and the other victims became during their captivity in a Philadelphia row home.
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How Service Dogs Are Helping Disabled Veterans Cope With Post-War Stress
Matt Raible, paralyzed by a mortar round in Vietnam, is working with his third service dog, paired with the veteran through nonprofit group Canine Companions for Independence (CCI). He told CNBC that each dog helped him navigate life after war in new and meaningful ways. The group provides assistance dogs free of charge to adults, children and veterans like Raible,...
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Civil Rights Groups Sue Georgia for Holding 53K Voter Registrations
Civil rights groups sued Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp, the Republican candidate for governor who also oversees elections in the state, saying the method his office uses to verify new voter registrations is discriminatory. The lawsuit, filed late Thursday in the U.S. District Court in Atlanta, comes after the revelation that thousands of applications remain in a pending status...
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Your Social Security Check Could Be Bigger Next Year
Good news for those who are collecting Social Security: Your monthly checks likely will be bigger next year. The Social Security Administration generally announces its cost-of-living adjustment in October. The Senior Citizens League, a nonpartisan organization, keeps an ongoing estimate of what that increase could be. The latest estimate — excluding September — pegs that increase at 2.8 percent. For...
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Judge Tosses California Suit Over Corinthian College Student Debt
A U.S. judge on Wednesday threw out a lawsuit by the state of California accusing the Trump administration of illegally reneging on an Obama-era commitment to quickly forgive the loans of students defrauded by the Corinthian for-profit college chain.
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Fact Check: Trump's Misleading Gun Rhetoric
In a bipartisan meeting with members of Congress, President Donald Trump made false and misleading claims about his predecessors’ actions on gun control legislation and shootings in “gun-free zones.”
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California Targets ‘Dead' Drivers Using Disabled Parking
California officials plan to crack down on thousands of “dead” drivers who still hold disabled parking placards.
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Similar Names Create Medicare Mix-Up
Being misidentified by the federal government was as simple as a spelling mistake for this Sherman Oaks woman, whose Social Security benefits were being paid to another woman with a similar name, while she received that woman’s Medicare bills. Randy Mac the NBC4 News at 5 p.m. on Friday, November 10, 2017.
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Florida Man Hid Wife's Body in Freezer to Collect Social Security
Authorities in Florida say the heirs of a man who hid his wife’s body in a freezer so he could continue collecting her Social Security benefits have repaid the government for the money he took.