Want a great Christmas gift idea? How about giving yourself and your friends the best book about Social Security that you will ever read. And surprise! I’m talking about my book, “Social Security Simple and Smart: 10 Easy-To-Understand Fact Sheets That Will Answer All Your Questions About Social Security.” In just under 100 pages, I explain everything you'd probably ever need to know about our nation’s bedrock social insurance program. For example, if you are someone pushing retirement age who wants to know when and how to file for benefits, there is a chapter in the book for you. Or if you are a woman who is wondering what benefits you might be due on a husband’s, or ex-husband’s, or a deceased husband’s Social Security record, there is a chapter in the book for you. Or if you are someone with a physical or mental impairment wondering if you might be eligible for disability benefits, there is a chapter in the book for you. And there is so much more.
Most people get the book through Amazon. If you do, there is one caveat to my Christmas suggestion. Although I have updated the book for 2024 and it does appear on the Amazon website as such, the retail giant has been having some problems and they sometimes send the 2022 or 2023 editions. If that happens, you can return the book. But you just might want to keep it and put it under the Christmas tree. All I do each year is update a few numbers that change annually with cost-of-living adjustments. But 99 percent of the old editions (all the really important stuff) are the same as the 2024 edition.
