How Your Social Security Benefits and Your Tax Filing Status May Affect Your Economic Impact Payment
My son’s favorite subjects are math and science. His is preferred mode of learning is activity. His least-preferred mode of learning is...
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Making Your Disability Case to Social Security
My son goes to a tiny Montessori school that offers schooling to the equivalent of pre-K through 12th grade and that has been doing an...
How to Manage Social Security While Social Distancing
When businesses and organizations started reducing hours and services in response to the COVID-19 situation, I like many of you started...
Let the IRS help you pay for post-secondary education
This past week, I came to talk to a group of high school students with disabilities about Social Security, Medicaid,and Medicare Work...
Good News and Bad News for Actors with Disabilities
My son occasionally prefaces disclosures with: “I’ve got some good news and some bad news. Which do you want first?” His dad and I...
Success brings challenges for people with disabilities
In initial episode of Netflix’s new series, AJ and the Queen, Rupaul’s character, Robert (stage name “Ruby Red”) becomes a victim of his...
How Social Security and the IRS define "dependent" differently
When I was a child, my grandfather taught me to play checkers. He liked the game and was quite good at it. For variety, he also taught me...
Early SSI eligibility can prevent Medicaid loss later
Does anyone play the game Jenga™ at home? Once the internet time has run out, it’s a favorite with my son, who enjoys a dexterity...
Here's How to get the most out of Social Security
In this classic Sesame Street skit, Bert’s favorite program, The Wonderful World of Pigeons, has been replaced by a large capital “H”...
It Does Matter What Kind of Medicaid You Have.
In Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, the heroine asks “What is in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as...
“Say What?!” Decoding the Jargon of the Disability Support Field
The Wall Street Journal ran a charming article on the rise of the use of Scottish dialect on Twitter. For those of you with a...
Cuz we need a little...lead time.
It snowed the day before Halloween, where I live. The day after, CVS and Walgreens had their Santa displays already up. Last week, I...
Leaving your IRA to a Special Needs Trust requires some finesse
Now that he has navigated Halloween successfully—his costume received lots of complements and he picked up enough candy to hold him until...
You can't trick the IRS, but you can choose how to treat your IRAs.
The animated show Captain Underpants (created by cartoonist Dav Pilkey) aired a Halloween episode earlier this week. For those of you...
Don't be scared by sequence-of-return risk
My husband was out walking a couple of evenings ago when he passed a cyclist on a tandem bike in our neighborhood. The cyclist, full of...
When "Worst Comes First."
My son’s Little League team won their game last Sunday. (If you do Little League, you will know about “Fall Ball”). Despite a...
Train, talk it through then try the run.
The father of one of my son’s schoolmates approached me on a field trip. He mentioned that he was thinking, maybe, of attending one of...
Because We're "All About That Basis!"
By her own account, Meghan Trainor’s song “All About That Base”, makes a statement that a woman with a large, well, “base” can still be...
All your basis are belong to IRS!
In an attempt to catch me up in the ongoing video game revolution that I have mostly missed, my husband has educated me about certain...
Acing the Tax Preseason
My niece requested for her birthday a gift certificate from a certain clothing store she “frequents”. The quote marks are because she...