While many may argue contrary to our fantastic Social Security speaker whom we have had twice now Mr. Tom Clark who assures us that Social Security will always be there, many do not believe this for various reasons.
No matter your beliefs or age we highly encourage you to check your Social Security Statement and most importantly your Social Security Earnings Record.
Earnings Benefit Credit Statement
Do not be concerned if just as this example, does not show your 2020 earnings posted as of yet there have been some delays and normally this is not posted at an early time in the year anyway .
What we want to be concerned about is if there are gaps in our earnings history or a partial credit (change of employers) that should have been credited. there are many reasons that this can occur such as just a lost document in the Mail or an employer was bought out or closed and did not report your hard earned earnings period.
How Do I Find This Statement?
In 1999, the Social Security Administration mailed a paper copy to everyone every year. Budget cuts a dozen years later stopped this handy paper copy, leaving all of us to easily forget to double check our statement annually.
For the record according to the Administration folks at age 60 are supposed to receive a paper copy, but our informal poll shows a low hit ratio.
Not to worry, it is not that hard set up an account, ESPECIALLY if it is your first time.
Go to www.ssa.gov and either log into your account or create an account and pull down your statement…
Oh, keep your credentials safe … lost mine and was a huge pain getting logged back into the site!
Have a Great “Social Security Earnings History Check Reminder” Day!
John A. Kvale CFA, CFP
Founder of J.K. Financial, Inc.
A Dallas Texas based fee only
Financial Planning Total Wealth
Management firm.
March 2021 Financial Planning and Capital Market Review – By John Kvale
Hello and Welcome to our March 2021 Financial Planning and Capital Market Update!
If you are too busy to read, feel free to listen as we describe our post and thoughts in friendly podcast audio format as well as Video!
Newbies –
We like to articulate our thoughts and review on a Monthly basis our Financial Planning Tips, Capital Markets and current events!
Hope you enjoy!
March 2021 Video
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Financial Planning Tips
Two Handy Reminder Posts – Credit Report and Social Security Earnings Credits
We had not one but two really good reminder posts over the last four weeks, on which is featured in the Newsletter in great detail and one that is a handy annual reminder – hat tip DK!
Here in this post we highlight why and how you can check your credit report. This is a really good thing to do at least annually to see if there are any barnacles attached to your credit, thereby lowering it and possibly causing other costs in your life to increase i.e. as mentioned in the insurance.
Here in this second post and again also featured in the Newsletter, why you should check to make sure you are getting credit for those hard earned tax dollars being sent to the Social Security Administration AND very importantly a reminder to look for missing credits in your history!
Stimulus Check Update
In this post, we detailed the planning techniques associated with the third round of $1400 stimulus checks and what to watch out for as well as the new cliff thresholds of phase outs… further detailed with the following chart:
Capital Market Comments
Maximum Macro Economics Coming Soon
Not every trying to be a trend setter or first into the pool – we accidentally beat most of the regular commentators here in this post to the fact that there are likely some VERY HOT ECONOMIC numbers coming our way.
These will occur due to easy comparisons associated with the drop in Economic activity about a year ago as well as continued lift off as we open up for business once again.
There will be interesting dialogue in the Headlines – Be for warned much of this may be skewed by the afore mentioned!
Have a Great Day, Talk to You at the End of April!
John A. Kvale CFA, CFP
Founder of J.K. Financial, Inc.
A Dallas Texas based fee only
Financial Planning Total Wealth
Management firm.
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