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is(isn't) a holiday weekend--Columbus Day--and of course(I should check my calendar more often!) but my city is still super busy (it's NASCAR weekend, the Age of Chivalry Festival, and a dozen other things...I'll probably stay far away from all of the tourists this weekend!). - There will be a solar eclipse this weekend.
- In freebie news, check your local utility websites, I found these great deals on our local electric company's website.
- On an unrelated note, I was talking to a waitress at a local restaurant a while back and she told me her kid's father had recently died. I knew she had young kids and asked her if she filed for Social Security benefits for the kids. She had no idea what I was talking about so I explained that kids can get survivor benefits from Social Security if their parent dies. A couple months later she told me she was now getting benefits for her kids and it was like a windfall because the dad had never paid child support so she had been eeking by on what little money she made. I thought everyone knew this but apparently not.
- The cats are fat and fluffy with their newly acquired winter coats. Hubby worried about them being cold so he made a little three-level cat cubby for them complete with towels they can curl up on and stay warm.
- An interesting trend I've come across recently, people getting fed up with the high costs and crime in the US and moving elsewhere (examples here, here, and here).
- Finally, it looks like hubby and everyone else who gets Social Security will get a little bump in their benefits in 2024.
I hope you have a wonderful holiday weekend!
That is so wonderful.
ReplyDeleteYou have made a real difference in those children's lives.
You've always lifted their mothers burden as well.
It's nice that we will get a small raise in our social security.
However I just read that Medicare part B will have a large increase more than double the rise .
Add to that insane inflation rate
And it's nots going to help much.
I read that Medicare premiums are going up in 2024, but will only be about $10.00 more.
DeleteIt seems like everytime hubby gets a bump in his Social Security payment, they raise the cost of Medicare so he just breaks even!
DeleteIt would be great to get a bump in Social Security equal to the real rate of inflation (not what the government thinks it is but the actual increase in food, utilities, etc)!
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