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Audit faults security of city school records
An internal audit found that Baltimore public schools do not have sufficient security for records of current students and graduates, risking the possibility that grades could be changed or that graduates could wait weeks to get a copy of their...Tags: Human Accomplishments, Accounting and Auditing, Teaching and Learning, Wages and Pensions, Achievement Records
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Humberto Cruz: Social Security strategy is legal, but it carries risks
I am researching the best time to start Social Security benefits. I am curious if you considered filing for benefits as soon as possible, investing the money in a conservative low-cost mutual fund and then filing for a withdrawal of application and...Tags: Fairfax County, Labor Legislation, State Budgets, Fairfax (Fairfax, Virginia), Wages and Pensions
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Paid or free services can help protect your identity
Tribune Media ServicesEveryone is afraid of identity theft. It seems as if every couple of days there are new reports of Social Security numbers and other sensitive information stolen, lost or leaked. Recently Countrywide Financial, which is now owned by Bank of America, said...Tags: Interior Policy, Theft, Corporate Crime, Countrywide Financial Corp., Wages and Pensions
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Brenner: Social Security off limits to most creditors
Bfamfin@aol.comAs of the 2007 tax filing, I owe the government some money. If I elect to start to receive my Social Security benefit, will I get the check, or will the Internal Revenue Service take it to pay down my debt? SA via e-mail The IRS is one of the few...Tags: State Budgets, Wages and Pensions, Retirement, Internal Revenue Service, Melville
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LETTERS
LIPA, don't take it out on us According to the article "Late on LIPA bills" [News, Oct. 8], more customers have been unable to fully pay their energy costs now than in recent history and the Long Island Power Authority is short $155 million. Taken within...Tags: Sexual Assault, Assault, National Government, Government, State Budgets
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Rivals short on specifics for entitlement reform
Social Security and Medicare long have been considered the nation's fiscal time bombs, and the ticking is getting louder. But presidential candidates Barack Obama and John McCain have no comprehensive plans to overhaul the systems and are campaigning...Tags: Getty Images Incorporated, Medicare, John McCain, State Budgets, Health Insurance
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Rational thinking is a haven from panic
Special to the TimesHaving trouble investing wisely in today's tumultuous market? The problem may be your brain. Brad Klontz, a Hawaii-based psychologist who specializes in financial disorders, says that thanks to lessons we learned as cave dwellers, human beings are...Tags: Great Depression, Philosophy, Finance, Personal Finance, Stock Market
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Now's the time to apply for retirement
Are you planning to "clock out" of the work force once and for all in January? Generally, you should apply for your Social Security retirement benefits three months before you'd like them to start. So now's the time to apply for retirement benefits to...Tags: Wilton Manors, Wages and Pensions, Retirement, Internal Revenue Service
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Fight for East End congressional seat heats up
rick.brand@newsday.comRep. Tim Bishop stood before the crowd of 60 veterans at VFW Post 6249 in Rocky Point, and explained his vote on the just-rejected $700-billion Wall Street rescue plan. "Do I like it? No. But I voted for it holding my nose," Bishop, 58, a six-year...Tags: Long Island Sound, Veterans Affairs, Major League Baseball, National Government, Port Authority of New York and New Jersey
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Florida elections chief denies attempt to subdue vote
South Florida Sun-SentinelFlorida Secretary of State Kurt Browning defended himself Friday against charges that his enforcement of the state's voter registration law means he's trying to disenfranchise voters. In a sometimes-testy exchange with supervisors of elections from the...Tags: Interior Policy, Personal Data Collection, Wages and Pensions
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Elders' self-interest is to vote for Obama
saulfriedman @comcast.netWith less than a month before this most important election in my lifetime, I'll leave it to the professional pundits to provide the differences between the major candidates on the cosmic issues of war and peace, the future of the economy and climate...Tags: Bill Clinton, National Government, Health Insurance, Government Health Care, Hillary Clinton
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DA probes ACORN voter signups
The district attorney for the Pittsburgh area is investigating possible forgery and other irregularities on voter registration forms turned in by a group under scrutiny for registration problems in other states. Similar allegations are being investigated...Tags: Interior Policy, Local Elections, Lawyers, Wages and Pensions, Pittsburgh
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