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    Social Security, Medicare and Government Pensions: Get the Most Out of Your Retirement & Medical Benefits

    By Joseph Matthews

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    About this ebook

    Your complete guide to Social Security retirement and medical benefits.

    The rules for claiming Social Security benefits have changed. Find out if you can still choose between your own benefits and spousal benefits. Learn this and more with Social Security, Medicare & Government Pensions—completely updated for 2020.

    Social Security benefits. Figure out how to get retirement, disability, dependents and survivors benefits, or Supplemental Security Income (SSI). Decide whether it’s best to claim benefits early, at full retirement age, or not until you turn 70—and how to time your claims so you and your spouse get the best benefits.

    Medicare & Medicaid. Learn how to qualify for and enroll in both programs, including Medicare Part D drug coverage.

    Medigap insurance & Medicare Advantage plans. Compare Medigap and Medicare Advantage plans, and choose what’s best for you.

    Government pensions & veterans benefits. Discover when and how to claim the benefits you have earned.

    What’s New in 2020?

  • End of donut hole for prescription drugs
  • New Medicare costs and Social Security amounts for 2020, and
  • Changes to some Medigap plans.

    Whether you’re looking for yourself or helping a parent, you’ll find valuable information here to help get the benefits you’ve earned.

    • LanguageEnglish
    PublisherNOLO
    Release dateFeb 4, 2020
    ISBN9781413327229
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    Social Security, Medicare and Government Pensions: Get the Most Out of Your Retirement & Medical Benefits
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    Joseph Matthews

    Joseph Matthews is the author of the novels The Blast and Everyone Has Their Reasons, the story collection The Lawyer Who Blew Up His Desk, and the post-9/11 political analysis Afflicted Powers: Capital and Spectacle in a New Age of War (with I. Boal, T.J. Clark & M. Watts). He lives in San Francisco, CA.

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