HC directs state to provide employment on compassionate grounds to wife of frontline warrior who died during Covid-19 pandemic

HC directs state to provide employment on compassionate grounds to wife of frontline warrior who died during Covid-19 pandemic

Helping a woman whose husband, a health inspector, died during the Covid-19 pandemic, a Madras High Court bench has directed the state to consider her representation and provide her with compassionate employment. The court was hearing a petition filed in 2021 by M. Sharmila Banu of Dindigul. The petitioner’s husband, M. Nainar Mohamed, who served …

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Dear Annie: My wife gives large sums of money to her adult daughter, but does not save for retirement.

Dear Annie: My wife gives large sums of money to her adult daughter, but does not save for retirement.

Dear Annie: I have been married for 33 years. My wife has children and grandchildren from another marriage. She has a great job and makes a lot of money. I am now retired. I have a nice little nest egg from my pension. About 15 years ago, when we had a joint checking account that …

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Social Security is important: Can my wife claim her benefits now and switch to my spousal benefit later?

Social Security is important: Can my wife claim her benefits now and switch to my spousal benefit later?

By Russell Gloor, national social security advisor at the AMAC Foundation, the nonprofit arm of the Association of Mature American Citizens Dear Rusty: Can my wife claim her benefits now (at age 63, and we know about the early claim reduction) and then when I retire at 66 years and 10 months in almost 3 …

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