Posted on April 14, 2022 by Ruder Ware Alumni
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Do you prefer face-to-face meetings? Do you struggle getting through a phone tree or finding what you need online? Many of our clients receive Social Security Retirement benefits, Social Security Disability benefits, and various other benefits provided through the Social Security Administration (the “SSA”). Recently, Kilolo Kijakazi, the Acting Commissioner of Social Security, announced that […]
Posted on October 13, 2021 by Ruder Ware Alumni
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Today, the Social Security Administration announced in a press release that approximately seventy million Americans who receive Social Security and Supplemental Security Income (SSI) will receive a cost-of-living adjustment (“COLA”) seeing an increase in their benefits of 5.9% in 2022. Sixty-four million Social Security beneficiaries will see their 5.9% COLA increase in January 2022. Eight […]
Posted on April 29, 2020 by Mark J. Bradley
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Maybe you were informed ahead of time or maybe you found out when you were first called upon to act. In any event, someone (a parent, a sibling, a friend, a neighbor) named you as their agent or attorney-in-fact under a Wisconsin power of attorney for finances.[1] Now what?[2] What Are Your Rights and Responsibilities? […]
Posted on May 19, 2014 by Mary Ellen Schill
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On October 31 the IRS announced the various contribution and benefit limits applicable to qualified retirement plans, for 2014. Here’s a link to our recent update which includes a handy chart. We’ve become accustomed to getting these annual announcements in mid-October, but as with a lot of other IRS guidance, the government shutdown did have […]