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If my father pass away and i was receiving social security but they stop giving me my benefits because they say i didn''t finish school but i did and got my high school diploma how can i get the money they owe me?
Submitted Dec 15, 2012
I am a single mother that hasnt been able to be consistant with working over the past 4 yrs for a myriad of reasons. I am pushing foward to improve my finances. I have set a goal of saving 15k by next September in order to put down on a house. Should I rent first or go foward with attempting to purchase
Submitted Dec 15, 2012
My mom has a revocable trust where the primary items in the trust are annuity contracts. Can we transfer the annuity contracts to a revocable trust without incurring a tax penalty
Submitted Dec 15, 2012
I work abroad and I want to know if I have to pay taxes, I know there is a limit ($92,900) I can exclude but also I need to be 330 days out residing abroad but is it possible I come back to the states for a quick 2 day visit or would that change that exclusion and we''ll have to pay taxes ? Thank you
Submitted Dec 15, 2012
My wife is a US Citizen by birth (1983). She lives and works in foreign country, earning $42.675 annually. She never been in US except for few months visit, and has no Social Security Number. She's never planing to go back to live permanently in the US in near future. She will continue to work abroad until she retired. Is she required to pay tax or file...
Submitted Dec 13, 2012
I am 63 yrs old and collect 770 a month in social security and a state pension from ohio of 650 a month. I will earn my limit of 14,640 for part time work.Next year if I invest my part time job earnings into a 401 plan , will that money count toward my social security limit.
Submitted Dec 12, 2012
Hello My husband and I are both U.S citizens and lived overseas in Australia from January 2012-July 2012. I did not work, but he was on a working holiday visa and made about $25,000 in our stay there. We got about $3,700 in taxes back from the Australian government, will we have to claim the money as income on our 2012 return here in the United States?
Submitted Dec 10, 2012
Hello, I would like to ask a question. I am a 28 year old woman and I lost my mom in August of this year. I am going back to school and someone told me that I might possibly be able to collect her disability/SSI. I was woundering if this information was correct. Shannon
Submitted Dec 6, 2012
My father left us when we were young and divorced my mother. He was lost for 25 year and just recently I found my uncle (which is his brother) whom also didn''t know where my father was. a few months later my uncle received a call from the cook county morgue that my father was found already deceased. My mother says he never paid child support when we were young so my...
Submitted Dec 6, 2012
Hi, I am a US citizen working in the US. I am getting a contract with a US company, but I will be paid out of Hong Kong. The pay will go directly to my US bank account. I will not be going to Hong Kong for the contract. Do I need to pay Hong Kong taxes or do any filings? Many thanks, Darcie Goodwin
Submitted Dec 6, 2012

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