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Social Security Administration continues to give bad advice on claiming rules

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Staff denies some eligible applications for spousal benefits.

I don't know who is more frustrated about the rash of bad advice being doled out by Social Security Administration staffers recently — financial advisers, their clients or me.

More than a year after Congress approved changes to Social Security claiming rules as part of the Bipartisan Budget Act o

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