Recent content by retiredunder50

Plenty of co-sponsors for HR 82 exist. Hopefully, this will be the year that a WEP and GPO bill finally gets passed. This subject area has been picking up momentum over the past few years. Maybe letters of encouragement to reps are impacting support...

well, I did cut & paste from one of those docs

I recently pushed back on a surgical center requiring me to create an account & enter in agreement with a 3rd party health records company. I have reservations about providing my personal & medical info to a 3rd party site that allows access to unknown & unidentified entities: “Deleted Company...

You might want to also consider state and local income tax implications. I bonds are typically exempt. Will the new 5% interest gain also be exempt from from state tax?

The sheets seem as thick and soft as before to me, however, the number of sheets has been reduced from 425 to 380 per roll! Costco also reduced the number of sheets in their paper towels from 160 to 140, but amazingly, the number was raised back to 160.

I recall the first full year (2018) of the corporate tax rate cut implementation ended up with negative market performance (S&P 500, Dow,...), but yes, generally speaking. I also recall that the S&P 500 finished last year up 26.89% and posted a record close at least once a month. The...

I am trying out Linux Mint 20.3 cinnamon these days. It was fairly easy to install, is supposedly one of the better distros for beginners transitioning from windows, comes with a decent collection of apps (versus installing them later) and it doesn't seem to be too resource heavy, but there are...

If the windows reinstall doesn't take, you might want to consider loading a linux variant. If all you are doing is mostly surfing, email, using office apps,... you might like the snappier performance the different os brings to a resource limited laptop running windoze.

You could check her balance remotely via the tracfone web site and add additional service as necessary. They also sell unlimited text & minutes plans, but the annual one which also comes with 12 GB of data costs $199 and is too much for a low use phone. If you are going the unlimited...

I believe WEP kicks in if several years of his employment were done while employed by an entity that did not require payments into social security and caused his number to be reduced to less than 30 years of substantial earnings. You don't get credit in the WEP calculation for the years you...

Is it possible that you were effected by a Windfall Elimination Provision reduction?

please ignore, I overlooked the fact it was a check

It's possible that someone else filing taxes made an error with their direct deposit account info.

It seems to me that one of the best return on investments for some of the ultra wealthy is strategically placed campaign contributions.

I have been buying my tires exclusively at Costco for 19 years and find their (sale) prices and service to be very good. The road hazard warranty has provided me with a few free tires that I thought would surely have been pro-rated for wear.