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Living Cost Payment Delayed

The automatic Social Security benefit increase based on the cost of living, previously effective each July, will be delayed for 6 months to January 1984, under a new law designed to strengthen the Social Security system, a Social Security spokesperson said recently The purpose of the delay is to save the system money and to help it regain its financial strength, the spokesperson said. Largely because of economic condi lions in recent years, Social

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Security has had an increasingly severe financial problem THE NEXT cost-of-living increase will be 3.5 percent and will appear in the checks delivered early in January 1984. The new law is designed to meet the problem both in the near-term and into the years after 2000 Other changes made by the new law provide additional income to the system. They include: The Social Security tax rate increase scheduled under previous law for 1985 will go into effect in 1964 The new 1984 rate will be 7.0 percent each for employees and employers.

Records Retain Credits

Women who stop working to raise a family or for other reasons should remember that any Social Security credits they have already earned will remain on the Social Security earnings record, a Social Security representative said recently^ If they return to work, any additional credits they earn will be added to their record. “This rule applies to both men and women,” the spokesperson said, "but it may be of more significance to w omen who decide to remain at home while their children are young.” HOWEVER, the amount of a person's benefits may be affected if he or she stops working. "Since the amount a person eventual- * ly receives is based on covered earnings over a period of years, a person who has several years of low or no earnings would be entitled to a lower benefit than would be the case if he or she had worked continuously.” Additional information about Social Security benefits can be obtained from any Social Security office. The address and telephone number of the nearest Social Security office can be found in the telephone directory.

To The Editor: I am a Registered Nurse who Uvea in the Burleigh section of Middle Township. You carried a recent article by Jim Alexis, whereby be proposed a FYee Blood Pressure Clinic in Middle Township 1 must say that I was pleased to see such a proposal from a candidate for public office Because I feel such a program is needed in Middle Township I believe that Alexis' proposal to staff the Blood Pressure Clinic with community volunteers is a practical way to initiate such a clinic As a Registered Nurse, I am going to offer my services to Alexis in the hope that other medical people will donate their time In addition to Nunes. Emergency Medical Technicians (EMT) would also be qualified to staff the clinic An EMT must take a blood pressure reading everytime they go on an ambulance run. Thu clinic can be a good thing for Middle Township as our citisens (of all agea) may continue to strive for practical. inexpensive health care in their everyday lives ROXANNE DUNKELBERGER Reproduced From The Cape May County Herald A Lantern 10-28-3 Burleigh

up from the previous rate of 6.7 percent. But, employees will receive a tax credit against 1984 taxes of 0.3 percent, which will be given when taxes are deducted from wages. In effect, 1964 employee taxes will remain at the level set under previous law. ALSO. PART of the tax rate increase scheduled for 1990 will go into effect in 1988. Starting in 1984, the Social Security selfemployment tax rate will be equal to the combined employee-employer tax on wages. This will be 14.0 percent for 1984. Previously the rate for selfemployed people was about IVs times the employee rate. Under the new law, selfemployed people will receive a self-employment tax credit of 2.7 percent of self-employment income for 1984, 2.3 percent for 1985, and 2.0 percent for

credits will be replaced with deductions designed to treat the self-employed in much the same manner as employees and employers are treated for Social Security and income tax purposes A free leaflet, Social Security Strengthened, is available at any Social Security office which tells about all the changes in Social Security. The address and telephone number of the nearest Social Security office can be found in the telephone directory.

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Q. IF ANOTHER Government agency asks for my Social Security number, do I have the right to know why it’s requested? A. Yes. Any federal, state, or local government agency that asks you for the number must explain whether it is mandatory or voluntary, under what authority the number is being requested, and what uses will be made of it.

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