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Long-delayed unemployment benefits going out this weekend
Saturday is when the checks will start being mailed in Massachusetts. WBZ New England Business Editor Anthony Silva talked with Massachusetts Secretary of Labor and Workforce Development Joanne...
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Jobless checks on the way this weekend
The state will begin sending unemployment checks this weekend to residents who were cut off during a Congressional stalemate over federal benefits extensions. An estimated 70,000 Massachusetts...
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Are Huge State Pensions Draining City Budgets?
WBZ It’s in the news every day: cities and towns, as well as the state, are broke. That means services often get cut to try and bring those budgets into line. At the same time, there are often stories...
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Mass. Supreme Court Sets Bar High To Deny Immigrant Benefits
BOSTON (AP) — Advocates in Massachusetts are hailing a decision by the state’s highest court that sets a high bar for denying benefits to immigrants. The Supreme Judicial Court ruled Friday that while...
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RI Lawmakers To Hold Hearings On Civil Unions
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) – Rhode Island lawmakers plan to hold hearings on a bill creating civil unions for gay couples next week. The House of Representatives announced Friday that it will hold...
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Last Week Of The Year: Back To Work
BOSTON (CBS) – It’s almost the New Year and it’s a good time to review what benefits you have at work. Did you receive an employee handbook way back when you started? Have you read it? Back To Work If...
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Family Of Boston Cop Who Had Hepatitis C Fights For Death Benefits
BOSTON (CBS) – Saugus widow Maura Shaw has been fighting the state of Massachusetts for more than a decade. Her husband Kenneth Shaw, a Boston Police officer for almost thirty years contracted...
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Social Security Primer: Your Benefits
BOSTON (CBS) – In order to get benefits from Social Security you must work and pay taxes into the system. An exception would be an at-home spouse or a child of a worker who could collect benefits as a...
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Fight Over Benefits For Same Sex Couples Heads To Mass. Appeals Court
BOSTON (AP) — A legal battle over a law that denies federal benefits to married gay couples is headed to a federal appeals court in Massachusetts, the first state in the nation to legalize gay...
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I-Team: Dead People Receiving Benefits From State
BOSTON (CBS) – Pension benefits for the state’s retirees and their survivors cost Massachusetts taxpayers $1.5 billion a year. The I-Team has discovered some of the people receiving those benefits...
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All About Social Security
BOSTON (CBS) – Social Security benefits are not just retirement benefits. Should you become disabled, you and your dependents would be eligible for benefits. Should you die with minor children, they...
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The History Of Social Security
BOSTON (CBS) – Last year 58 million Americans received $821 billion dollars in Social Security benefits and nine out of ten individuals age 65 and older received benefits. The History Of Social...
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Is Social Security Doomed?
BOSTON (CBS) – I don’t think so. But there is big trouble brewing and of course, it makes great headlines. Is Social Security Doomed? Social Security will be there in the future, and it will be there...
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Your Social Security Benefits In A Nutshell
BOSTON (CBS) – To receive Social Security benefits, you must work and pay taxes into the system. An exception would be an at-home spouse or a child of a worker, who could collect benefits as a...
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What Women Need To Know About Social Security
BOSTON (CBS) – Women represent almost 56% percent of all Social Security beneficiaries age 62 and older and approximately 68% of all beneficiaries age 85 and older. What Women Need To Know About...
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Happy Birthday Boomers!
BOSTON (CBS) – Today 10,000 Baby Boomers turned 65. Another 10,000 will turn 65 tomorrow. According to the Pew Research Center, this is a trend that will continue each day for roughly the next 17...
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Family Of Marathon Bombing Suspects Received $100,000 In Benefits
BOSTON (CBS) – WBZ-TV has confirmed the Boston Marathon bombing suspects and their parents received more than $100,000 in taxpayer funded benefits over a decade. The benefits, which the family received...
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Social Security Alone Will Not Support Your Retirement
BOSTON (CBS) – The reality is Social Security was designed to replace only about 40% of your current paycheck and less if you are a high wage earner. Many experts think that number will drop to about...
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Women & Money: Social Security And Women
BOSTON (CBS) – Social Security is synonymous with retirement income for many women. But it is much more. Women & Money: Social Security And Women Should you become disabled, you and your dependents...
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Dive Back Into Work Today
BOSTON (CBS) – The end of the year is almost here and that signals the start of a new year. Dive Back Into Work Today And with a new year it’s a good time to take stock of what you got at work. Review...
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