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Loan underwriters make 'absurd' demands in effort to verify data
Did you hear about the loan underwriter who demanded a letter from the borrower's doctor stating the borrower had been healed and his illness would not come back? How about the underwriter who wanted a verification of employment from the borrower who...Tags: Finance, Religion and Belief, Freddie Mac, Federal Housing Administration, Mortgages
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Immigration deformed
There's the story of a woman with five kids who was asked: If she had to do it all over again, would she have five children? "Yes," she said, "just not these five." That's the way I feel about the immigration "reform" bill introduced by the Senate's...Tags: Cal Thomas, Jeff Flake, Career and Workplace, Personal Data Collection, Crime, Law and Justice
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Obama sends Congress $3.77 trillion spending plan
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is sending Congress a $3.77 trillion spending blueprint that seeks to achieve an elusive "grand bargain" to tame runaway deficits by raising taxes further on the wealthy and trimming popular benefit...
Tags: U.S. Congress, Gun Control, Barack Obama, Fiscal Cliff, Interior Policy
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Don't blame boomers for Social Security dilemma
We baby boomers get blamed for just about every economic hiccup, because there are so many of us. And our children are particularly furious because they believe the crisis in Social Security, which may affect their ability to retire, can be laid at...
Tags: Immigration, Career and Workplace, Employees
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Cut increases in Social Security payments?
President Obama’s latest budget proposal calls for the federal government to switch to a new cost-of-living index called the chained CPI. Doing so would trim more than $100 billion in Social Security cost-of-living adjustments over the next decade,...
Tags: U.S. Congress, Barack Obama
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McManus: Can Obama sell 'chained CPI'?
President Obama won't release his proposed budget for 2014 until Wednesday, but liberals and AARP have been howling all week about something they expect to be in it. What has our president done to provoke such outrage among his supporters? He's...
Tags: U.S. Congress, Bernard Sanders, Career and Workplace, Medicare, Market and Exchange
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Nobel Prize winner Gary Becker advocates paying parents for student performance
Nobel Prize winner Gary Becker could never win an election in this town. In a 30-minute speech Thursday to The Chicago Council on Global Affairs, the 82-year-old University of Chicago economist proposed that keeping "the American dream alive" would...
Tags: University of Chicago, Discrimination, Nobel Prize Awards, Melissa Harris, School Examinations
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Which road to take: Annuity or lump sum?
Q: I plan to retire by May and have a payment option on my pension plan. I can take a lump sum of $93,000, or an annuity of $602 per month with no inflation adjustment. I'm 67 and in relatively good health. My parents both lived through their late 80s. I'...Tags: Inflation and Deflation, Career and Workplace, Retirement, Pension and Welfare, Interior Policy
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The case against cutting Social Security and Medicare
The president and a few other prominent Democrats are openly suggesting that Social Security payments be reduced by applying a lower adjustment for inflation, and that Medicare be means-tested. This is even before Democrats have begun formal budget...Tags: Finance, Career and Workplace, Medicare, Medical Procedures and Tests, Retirement
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Mo. Senate Committee reviews Conceal and Carry Permit List-sharing with Social Security Administration
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. --Federal agents say they asked three times for a list of Missouri concealed gun permit holders but never analyzed the data for a potential investigation of disability fraud. Personnel from the inspector general's office of the...
Tags: Personal Data Collection, Interior Policy, Politics, Joint Ventures, Washington, DC
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401(k)s for teachers doesn't make sense
I am a retired teacher and taught in Illinois for my entire career. State Sen. Jim Oberweis’ suggestion that teachers should have 401(k)s instead of pensions made no sense to me (“Pension Plan,” Voice of the People, April 28). As you...Tags: 401K, Teachers, Career and Workplace, Retirement, Pension and Welfare
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READER SUBMITTED: Savvy Social Security Planning: What Baby Boomers Need to Know to Maximize Retirement Income
VernonCelebrating your 65th birthday soon? Anticipating your approaching retirement? Wondering about when and how to apply for Social Security benefits and their impact on your financial status? Important decisions await people facing these milestones, and...Tags: Career and Workplace, Arts and Culture, Rockville (Bethlehem, Pennsylvania), Retirement, Libraries
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