Some compensation is exempt from Social Security earnings test
Severance pay does not count, nor do trailing insurance commissions.
Talk about double whammy! One adviser asked me for guidance on a Social Security claiming strategy for a newly widowed client. Not only did she lose her husband recently, but at the end of last year, she also lost her job.
The adviser, Dewey Engelsma with D.A.E. Capital Advisors near Grand Rapids, M
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