Opinion

Dear Rusty: I was born in late 1951. When I retired five years ago, I was made aware that my own Social Security benefit was less than half of my husband’s Social Security benefit.

Dear Rusty: I just started receiving my Social Security in February of 2023. I am also working part-time at a company 24 hours a week.

Spring sports season at School in a Soybean Field switches the focus from random play and basketball to track and field. The seventh-grade and social studies teacher, Jack, is the all-sports coach for the seventh and eighth-grade boys.

Over the course of my two years in junior high school, specifically to the times, grades seven and eight, we studied a good bit about our country, its history and its government. This was clearly long before the days in which children who know virtually nothing about our nation were granted the “right” to vote in our local, state and national elections. But I digress.

Dear Rusty: I was widowed years ago and, when I approached age 60, I looked into Social Security survivor benefits based on my late husband’s record. He started receiving Social Security shortly before he died at $1,200 per month.

As a 5-year-old boy, Jacques Grelley fell headfirst off of a 12-foot wall. At 7 years old he was thrown 30 feet by an aggressive cow.

As of a month ago, Mary Ellen and I planned to attend her reunion in Ohio where she would celebrate the 50th anniversary of her graduation from college. We had talked extensively about the event, especially since Mary Ellen was one of the organizers. The truth is, we were both hiding how we really felt about the arrangements. I’ve put in parentheses what we were silently thinking when we discussed the trip.

Dear Rusty: We have hosted international college students for years, all of whom needed to apply for a Social Security Number upon arrival in the United States. Would these students be entitled to some Social Security funds at some point? Some have worked as paid graduate assistants, but others have not worked while going to school.