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Senior Attorney Advocate: Margaret Maupin
Director of Advocacy for Children and Families: Erica I. LeMon
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How to Calculate One's Social Security Monthly Benefit Amount
Matthew Frankel, CFP, from The Motley Fool has written a step-by-step method to determine one's expected Social Security benefit.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/much-social-security-step-step-123300413.html
Step 1: Determine whether you qualify for a retirement benefit
Step 2: Adjust all of your annual earnings for inflation
Step 3: Find the 35 highest inflation-adjusted years
Step 4: Calculate your average indexed monthly earnings (AIME)
Step 5: Determine your primary insurance amount (PIA)
Step 6: Adjust for your claiming age
Open the link to get all of the details, including formulas.
Updated chart for special enrollment periods under the ACA
The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities has published an updated chart on the events that trigger a special enrollment period under the Affordable Care Act. Normally one can only enroll in a health plan through the exchange during a now limited open enrollment period. However certain events can permit one to enroll at any time. The chart sets out information about these "special enrollment periods."
http://www.healthreformbeyondthebasics.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/SEP-Reference-Chart.pdf
Trustees Report on the Social Security Trust Funds
On June 5, 2018 the Social Security Board of Trustees released its annual report on the long-term financial status of the Social Security Trust Funds. Social Security is NOT going bankrupt.
The OASI Trust Fund (retirement and survivors’ benefits) is projected to become depleted in late 2034, as compared to last year’s estimate of early 2035, with 77 percent of benefits payable at that time. The DI Trust Fund (disability benefits) will become depleted in 2032, extended from last year’s estimate of 2028, with 96 percent of benefits still payable.
With no action from Congress, Social Security can continue to provide 100% of the retirement benefits people are owed until 2034. After that, even if absolutely no changes were made, beneficiaries would still receive 77% of their benefits. People receiving disability benefits will get their full benefit check until 2032 and, if Congress makes no changes, they will receive 96% of their benefits thereafter.
You can read the entire report by clicking here.
Affordable Care Act Still in Place Despite House Actions
From the Center on Budge tand Policy Priorities:
"It is important to emphasize that, at this time, the ACA is still law and its provisions are still in place. People’s coverage hasn’t changed, and open enrollment is on schedule for November."
On Thursday, the House of Representatives passed the American Health Care
Act (AHCA). The bill now moves to the Senate, where the bill will likely
change and then to a conference committee or a vote on the Senate bill in
the House.
This process will take time, and we have no way of knowing now what
provisions, if any, will be enacted and signed into law. We do know that
many people who gained coverage due to the Affordable Care Act (ACA) are
confused and worried about what is going to happen to their coverage. It
is important to emphasize that, at this time, the ACA is still law and
its provisions are still in place. People’s coverage hasn’t changed, and
open enrollment is on schedule for November.
As passed by the House, the AHCA would dramatically
reverse the gains in coverage that we’ve made since the
passage of the ACA. For an in-depth look at the key provisions in the
AHCA, please see a summary of
the AHCA from our friends at the Kaiser Family Foundation.
We will continue to follow the progress of this bill, and will keep you
informed of any updates as it proceeds through the Senate. The
Center on Budget and Policy Priorities website at www.cbpp.org
includes numerous papers and resources on the AHCA and is updated on an
almost daily basis with new material.
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MD Family Law Legislation - Updated 3/23/17
The latest from the MD General Assembly: bills relevant to family law practitioners as of March 23, 2017.
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MD Family Law Legislation - Updated 3/12/17
The latest from the MD General Assembly: bills relevant to family law practitioners as of March 12, 2017.
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2017-03-12 Family Law Legislative Update.doc | 134.5 KB |
Court Authorized to Grant Custody When Unmarried Parents Still Living Together
Holbrook vs. Newell, 2017 Md. App. LEXIS 109 (2/1/17)
(No Md. App. cite as of 3/5/17)
The circuit court erred in dismissing a custody petition for lack of subject matter jurisdiction; the court had jurisdiction to resolve a child custody dispute between unmarried parents who were living together because the State's interest in protecting the welfare of a child did not depend on the parents' present or former marital status.
The Court of Special Appeals:
“The case before us is not a divorce proceeding but we can conceive of no reason why the State's interest in protecting the welfare of a child should depend upon the present or former marital status of the parents. Therefore, we think that it is appropriate to extend Ricketts holding to cases in which the parents are not married. See also C. Callahan et al., MARYLAND FAMILY LAW § 5-57 (5th Ed. 2011) (Ricketts stands for the proposition "that a trial judge is not limited to exercising its equity jurisdiction to determine custody only to those situations where the parents are living separate and apart.").”
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MD Family Law Legislation - Updated 3/5/17
The latest from the MD General Assembly: bills relevant to family law practitioners as of March 5, 2017.
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2017-03-05 Family Law Legislative Update.doc | 131.5 KB |
MD Family Law Legislation - Updated 2/27/17
The latest from the MD General Assembly: bills relevant to family law practitioners as of February 27, 2017.
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2017-02-27.doc | 130.5 KB |
MD Family Law Legislation - Updated 2/22/17
The latest from the MD General Assembly: bills relevant to family law practitioners as of February 22, 2017.
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2017-02-22.doc | 131.5 KB |
MD Family Law Legislation - Updated 2/17/17
The latest from the MD General Assembly: bills relevant to family law practitioners as of February 17, 2017.
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2017-02-17.doc | 130 KB |
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