I just got back to Seattle from San Francisco after seeing a personal injury lawyer. How often do you find you don’t know the first thing about something that could really impact your life. There is so much information out there and that can be the problem; life has become so complicated.
I saw an excellent article posted on the Los Angeles Times News website yesterday, March 6, 2011, under the title, “Divorce can complicate Social Security claims,” by Kathy M. Kristof. Oh by the way if you need a Seattle divorce attorney who can do a variety of other legal cases for you such for instance family law, criminal defense plus even DUI in Bellevue in addition to the important divorce cases, then this attorney may be for you.
Written for the personal finance section, Kristof says that being aware of the rules of Social Security can help you avoid costly errors. She reports that about 50% of those of us who marry in this country will wind up divorced. Sadly, for nearly two-thirds of us, Social Security will be the main income for the unmarried retirees, most of them alone due to divorce.
We all get those nice little statements that Social Security sends out each year apprising us of current calculations of future benefits—quite a wonderful service, I always feel. Incidentially if you reside in beaytiful San Francisco and require a San Francisco personal injury attorney who can help with a wide array of personal injury type cases then this particular attorney can be of some assistance to you overall.
Kristof warns us by quoting Rob Kron, head of advisor education initiatives at the New York-based investment firm BlackRock, as saying, “Even divorce attorneys are often not aware of how the Social Security benefit works,” he said. “People just don’t know what they don’t know.”
She also cites the communications director for the Social Security Administration in Richmond, Calif., as saying that it can cost divorced people big time because they don’t know how spousal and survivor benefits work.