WASHINGTON — For years, Wanda Witter has lived on the streets in Washington, D.C., trying to persuade officials that Social Security owes her more than $100,000. For years, the 80-year-old woman says people dismissed her as crazy. But finally someone listened ...

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Living and buying in Maryland is expensive – and it looks like it’s going to stay that way. According to recent data from the Bureau of Economic Analysis, prices in Maryland are more than 10 percent higher than the national ...

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Family-law judges must consider the splitting spouses’ anticipated Social Security benefits when calculating monetary awards in divorce cases, a divided Maryland high court ruled Tuesday.

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There’s a right way to “fix” the Social Security system, and there’s a wrong way.

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Social Security Works, a left-wing group, was quick on the draw. Within an hour of U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio’s announcement that he was running for president, it issued a news release attacking him: “If Senator Marco Rubio had his way, Social Security’s very modest benefits, averaging just $1,330 a month for retired workers, would be cut.”

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Because Social Security is such a complex program, savvy retirees can take advantage of the rules and end up with tens of thousands of dollars more.

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Come January, nearly 60 million Social Security recipients will get benefit increases averaging $20 a month, the third straight year of historically small pay hikes.

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A Burtonsville man has pleaded guilty to stealing his late father's Social Security payments for nearly 20 years.

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Maryland’s top court Tuesday repealed a regulation that would have required attorneys, beginning Monday, to certify they have not included any litigant’s Social Security, taxpayer identification, bank account or medical account number in each document they file with the court.

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A federal judge is expected to rule this week on whether to allow a privacy-based challenge to a requirement that attorneys share their Social Security numbers with the state Judiciary, or face suspension.

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