Laurence Kotlikoff, "Get What's Yours: The Secret To Maxing Out Yours Social Security"

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Getting Your Due In Social Security Benefits

http://onpoint.wbur.org/2015/03/18/so...

Many Americans never collect thousands they’re due in Social Security. We’ll look at why and how to get what – under current, confusing law – is yours.

Guest

Laurence J. Kotlikoff, professor of economics at Boston University. Author of the new book, Get What's Yours: The Secrets to Maxing Out Your Social Security. Also author of The clash of generations: saving ourselves, our kids, and our economy,, Jimmy Stewart Is Dead: Ending the World's Ongoing Financial Plague with Limited Purpose Banking, Spend 'Til the End and The Healthcare Fix: Universal Insurance for All Americans (@kotlikoff)

From Tom’s Reading List

New York Times: The Social Security Maze and Other U.S. Mysteries – “While Social Securitymay well have evolved to its muddled state in part to let more citizens benefit earlier and not suffer from inflation’s effects, our tax system and other arenas are ones where multiple constituencies lobby against decreased complexity and make their livings off everyone else’s confusion. Mr. Kotlikoff, with his software and books, skims his cream, too, but he hates the system that gives rise to these opportunities.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/14/you...

POLITICO: The federal debt debate: Boomers vs. millennials — “Economist Laurence Kotlikoff told the Senate Budget Committee last month that the U.S. government is flat broke. The very next night, he was on ‘PBS NewsHour’ teaching upper-income professional couples how to claim tens of thousands in extra spousal benefits from a Social Security system he had just said was worse off than Detroit. Welcome to the generational wars of the budget debate coming this month in Congress.”

http://www.politico.com/story/2015/03...

PBS News Hour: Your relationship means nothing to Social Security unless you’re married — “I had thought, and even wrote in our new book, that disabled workers could, upon reaching full retirement age, withdraw their retirement benefits and file for a full spousal benefit. But as I wrote in a prior column, Social Security wiped out this possibility for millions of disabled workers in what I view as a truly malicious act of discrimination against the disabled. This action was taken on Dec. 23, after the book went to press.”

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/making-se...