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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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		<title><![CDATA[Social Security and You: Babies of "Notch Babies"]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is going to be a column about the infamous "notch babies." I
thought this issue had died, because frankly, almost everyone affected
by this glitch in Social Security law has died. (The few still alive
would be over 100 years old.) But ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/socialsecurityandyou/s-3987494</link>
 
    <pubDate>Jan/21/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Social Security and You: Social Security Clickbait]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[I'm sure you've seen these little teaser links on the Internet that can
sometimes be too irresistible to ignore. They have catchy titles like
"20 Celebrities Who Have a Secret Past" or "10 Common Foods That Will
Kill You." This kind of come-on is ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/socialsecurityandyou/s-3981324</link>
 
    <pubDate>Jan/14/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Social Security and You: Turning Full Retirement Age in 2026? Consider Filing for Benefits This Month]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[I write a column similar to this one every January. But I don't mind
plagiarizing myself because it contains a very important message for
people planning to retire in 2026.

January is a critical month for the hundreds of thousands of potential
...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/socialsecurityandyou/s-3973923</link>
 
    <pubDate>Jan/07/2026</pubDate>
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