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The SSI marriage penalty can cost couples up to $484 a month, forcing many to choose between love and financial security.
The SSI 'marriage penalty' can reduce or eliminate benefits for recipients who marry, threatening their financial and ...
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An NPR investigation of SSI — a program run by the Social Security Administration — found that many disabled people get caught by this "marriage penalty," a left-over rule from decades ago ...
The Institute for Family Studies recently reported on how “marriage penalties” cause a marriage to be a financial drag. The tax system seems to make single people benefit more than married ...
The Kem C. Gardner Policy Institute recently dived into tax policies, as well as benefit and other programs, to see if Utah's government policies create "marriage penalties" or "marriage bonuses." ...
There is no marriage penalty for couples who are each getting their own Social Security benefit.(aldomurillo / Getty Images) I frequently get questions from soon-to-be retirees who have heard ...
I frequently hear from readers who ask me about an alleged marriage penalty associated with Social Security. Or they say they heard there is a maximum amount that can be paid to members of a ...
Two of them — Adult Disabled Children (DAC) and Supplement Security Income (SSI) — come with a marriage penalty, meaning that getting married reduces or eliminates their benefits, says Rebecca ...
President Biden introduced a “potential marriage penalty” into the tax system when he ordered the IRS to conduct more audits of higher-income Americans, the agency’s inspector general said.
House Republicans passed President Donald Trump’s “one big, beautiful bill” on May 22. This meaty budget reconciliation bill ...