Montefiore Medical Center works out 11th-hour contract deal with Aetna
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2 Years Big Deal? France paralyzed over retirement age rise
In France, public transport is paralyzed, flights cancelled and one million people protesting, demanding the government backs down from retirement age reforms. The protests erupted into violence after President Nicolas Sarkozy vowed his conservative party would press ahead with raising the retirement age from sixty to sixty-two, still lower than in most European countries. Young [...]
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Deal With Anger Before It Deals With You
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Social Security private accounts: a good deal or not?: An article from: Westchester County Business Journal
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Top Tips to Deal with Lost Wallet
It is quite a distressing experience when you lose your wallet. Nowadays, most of the people carry their cash and valuable information, from credit cards, debit cards, and business cards to social security cards and driver’s license in their wallets. Some even carry their check book in their wallets. In fact, it is upsetting when your wallet is lost or pick pocketed, as it may sometimes lead to identity theft, thereby causing its real owners to pay huge amount of money from his pocket. Mentioned below are among the top tips on how to deal with lost wallet.
When you realize that your wallet is lost, try to remember the place where you last had your wallet. If you cannot remember, just list out the places you last visited carrying your lost wallet. Also, try to remember the cloth you were wearing last when you lost your wallet and search in its pocket. It is also advisable to check in your outerwear as well as jacket’s pocket. If you can’t find it, then search in your car. There are chances for your wallet to fall out from your pocket while driving. Still if you didn’t find your lost wallet, then check regarding the lost wallet with your spouse or friends who last accompanied with you. You can also ask them to help to find it, as they may sometimes be able to easily trace out the wallet.
As mentioned earlier, make a list of last visited places, which may include shopping centers, restaurants, pharmacy, bank or stores, and then dial their phone numbers and check with them whether they found any lost wallet. If possible, visit the scene and make a search. It may be sometimes lying near the counter or on the seat where you were sitting to watch movie, or on the chair or table in the restaurant. Also, consider to enquire regarding the lost wallet with the police, as there are chances of someone to turn in a wallet with similar features.
In spite of searches, if you cannot find your lost wallet, call your bank and credit card companies and report them to cancel your credit cards and debit cards. Also, notify to the Social Security Administration and bank if you were carrying your social security card in your lost wallet. Additionally, if your driver’s license card is also lost along with the wallet, then inform this to the Motor Vehicles Bureau. Above all, report the wallet theft to police in the jurisdiction for its further investigation.
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Categories: Lost social security card Tags: Deal, Lost, Tips, Wallet
Solving Social Security is No Big Deal
As an investor, I’ve always wondered why Social Security is such a problem. What’s so difficult about managing this particular Trust Fund, and why is it so different from other investment accounts that pay out a constant stream of income? The private sector does it routinely with defined benefit pension plans and fixed annuities, so what’s the big deal? Is Social Security failing because it hasn’t been invested soundly, or is there some other reason?
The most obvious explanation is politics, but we’re running out of time for finger pointing, and Social Security is solvable in a surprisingly painless manner. It will require a whole new approach that uses old ideas and institutions in ways that most of us have pretty much given up on. As hopeless as the Bush Administration’s nicotine patch for Social Security would have been, it pointed in the right direction. Now don’t hit DELETE when I refer to privatization, or when I mention one of my own most hated financial band-aids, the Annuity. Both are needed to permanently fix the Social Security mess, to get it away from people who are neither managers nor investment specialists, and to make the whole system work more economically. The purpose of this article is to get you to think about it—and to make you want to elect a hero with the guts to fix it. Unfortunately, Elvis and Joe DiMaggio have left the building.
Are you surprised that there is no Social Security Trust Fund—no investments and no Investment Managers? This is a gigantic Government designed and controlled Ponzi scheme that has worked incredibly well in spite of congressional tinkering and prohibitively high costs to everyone involved. There was always a tax plan for funding the benefits, but never an Investment Plan. And as difficult as it is for me to admit, no sophisticated Investment Plan is really necessary. We just need a new and reduced contribution plan, one that isn’t designed to fund every politically sensitive entitlement that compromises itself down the aisle. We need a simplified benefit structure that supplements privately funded and no-longer-taxed retirement programs. Healthcare just has to be a separate issue. We can eliminate all the unnecessary bells and whistles simply by mandating personalized benefit funding. Let the politicians deal with homeland security while the private sector deals with things financial.
After the repeal of the Social Security tax and implementation of mandated Individual Retirement Plan Contributions, the Social Security bureaucracy will retain several important functions: 1) Qualifying private sector companies and licensing them to provide Social Security Retirement Income Annuities, or SSRIAs. Thousands of providers will be needed, but only, fixed income experienced, profitable companies need apply. 2) Developing a computerized system for participant/provider matching—inspired randomness is essential. 3) Proactive monitoring of compliance with the minimal rules, installation of fraud detection systems, and investigation of all violations by providers, participants, and retirees. 4) Keeping the plan sacred, simple, and principally unchanged by future legislation. The plan must be kept: simple and profitable for providers; painless and visible to participants; timely and comprehensible to retirees.
The SSRIA is a new and improved version of the ancient Deferred Fixed Annuity Contract—a boring but guaranteed retirement benefit vehicle, funded by both mandated and voluntary payroll deductions, with a whole bunch of new wrinkles that make it an ideal Social Security replacement program. For example, and unlike existing annuity contracts: 1) Participants will be allocated to Qualified SSRIA Providers so there will be no sales commissions, no business acquisition or retention costs, no advertising expenses, etc. 2) All SSRIA contracts, regardless of provider, will contain the same terms, interest guarantees, retirement benefit choices, and pre-retirement death benefits, thus eliminating any incentives for internal fraud and manipulation of statistics. 3) Qualified providers will establish separate subsidiaries to manage and control SSRIA operations and to assure that only Investment Grade Value Stocks and high quality, income securities are used to fund future benefits. Index Funds and other high-risk securities and contracts would not be allowed, and equity-based investments would be kept below thirty percent of each providers separate SSRIA investment portfolio. 4) All qualified providers will use the same mortality, investment earnings, and expense assumptions, and all benefits will be fully guaranteed by the parent corporations.
The SSRIA is a supplemental retirement program, funded by a much smaller, yet flexible, payroll deduction, and it is designed to be the foundation of a retiree’s total retirement package—a benefit floor. Participants will choose (annually, for the following year) to deposit from the required 2% up to a maximum 4% of their Pre-Tax Income to their personal SSRIA, a contract that will follow them everywhere, from employer to employer, throughout their working years. Before retirement, a death benefit equal to the full cash value of the contract will be paid to one or more designated beneficiaries. At retirement, participants can elect either a Life Annuity or a Joint & 50% Survivor Annuity. No variable plans of any kind will ever be allowed; there will be no loan privileges, withdrawals, or dividends. Providers are expected to make a reasonable profit, which will ultimately be determined by their operating and investing abilities—hmmm, I smell capitalism.
Employer sponsored benefit programs and individual savings and investments are expected to make up the bulk of private retirement programs. The SSRIA will assure that everyone has something, probably significantly more than the current system provides, but individual savings and retirement plans, both company sponsored and personally funded, will be encouraged by new IRS policy. No retirement income, regardless of source will be subject to income taxation. Neither employers nor self-employed persons will be required to make matching contributions of any kind to employee SSRIAs. However, they will be encouraged to use their improved cash flow to increase employment or to reduce prices, perhaps by a new system that will reduce their corporate income tax obligations as a reward for boosting the economy. Similarly, billions of dollars of discretionary spendable income will find its way back into the economy from consumers whose payroll deductions have been slashed deservedly.
Two other thoughts: (1) All government employees at all levels, elected, appointed, or hired, would be moved into the new system. (2) SSRIAs would be available to all non-payroll and/or voluntarily unemployed American citizens.
Change is good; keeping change this simple is even better.
Steve Selengut
http://www.sancoservices.com
http://www.valuestockindex.com
Author of: “The Brainwashing of the American Investor: The Book that Wall Street Does Not Want YOU to Read”, and “A Millionaire’s Secret Investment Strategy”
Categories: Social security death index Tags: Deal, Security, Social, Solving
