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The Press-Dispatch Wednesday, July 13, 2022 C-3 CIVIL DOCKET Pike Circuit Court Portfolio Recover y Associ- ates LLC sues Ashley Sams for civil collection. Professional & Business Collections sues Joseph Greer, Sr., for civil collection. INFRACTIONS Pike Circuit Court Salas B. Almer II charged with no valid drivers license and speeding in a 70 mph zone. Shawn R. McLaughlin charged with speeding in a 70 mph zone. Lee Roy Davis charged with fishing without a license. Fodly Hyppolite charged with speeding in a 70 mph zone. Hunter J. Hopwood charged with speeding in a 55 mph zone. Kelvin K. Mambo charged with direguarding official traf- fic control device. Ashton L. South charged with speeding in a 70 mph zone. Tristan M. Schurz charged with speeding in a 55 mph zone. Kevin X. Garcia charged with speeding in a 70 mph zone. David J. Davis charged with fishing without a license. Alfred P. Godfrey charged with federal motor carrier safety regulation violation. Jacob M. Elsts charged with speeding in a 70 mph zone. Brittony L. Rodgers charged with speeding in a 70 mph zone. Ronald C. Gruhlke III charged with speeding in a 70 mph zone. Paul A. Fraile Castro charged with speeding in a 70 mph zone. Jonathon K. Crecelius charged with speeding. Jermiah Jones charged with speeding in a 70 mph zone. Compas Petherson charged with speeding in a 70 mph zone. Daniel C. Blessinger charged with seat belt viola- tion. Grace E. Moses charged with speeding in a 70 mph zone. Jaylon L. Dean charged with speeding in a 70 mph zone. Cor y A. Pierce charged with speeding in a 70 mph zone. Cathy E. Crosson charged with expired plates. Jose A. Garcia charged with speeding in a 70 mph zone. Venice J. Pettijohn charged with speeding in a 70 mph zone. Joyce M. Thacker charged with speeding in a 55 mph zone. Brionnne Z. Henderson charged with speeding in a 70 mph zone. Casey R. Stewart charged with speeding in a 55 mph zone. Jordan B. Stone charged with speeding in a 70 mph zone. Shawn M. McClelland charged with speeding in a 70 mph zone. Br yce E. Harter charged with speeding in a 70 mph zone. Alma R. Meacham charged with speeding in a 70 mph zone. Annisha M. Smith charged with speeding in a 70 mph zone. Luke D. Lengacher charged with speeding in a 70 mph zone. Jason P. Smith charged with speeding in a 70 mph zone. Jacob M. Carter charged with speeding in a 70 mph zone. Chilena A. Asomugha charged with speeding in a 70 mph zone. Mindy L. Moehl charged with speeding in a 70 mph zone. Valorie J. Norman charged with speeding in a 70 mph zone. Saw L. Ni charged with speeding in a 70 mph zone. Yamil A. Alvarez charged with speeding in a 70 mph zone. Robin J. Armour charged with speeding in a 70 mph zone. Israel Dimanche II charged with speeding in a 70 mph zone. Jeremy L. Klein charged with speeding in a 55 mph zone. Jeffrey A. Roach charged with speeding in a 70 mph zone. Nathan Gurtcheff charged with speeding in a 70 mph zone. CRIMINAL DOCKET Pike Circuit Court Brandon D. Denton charged with dealing in a narcotic dr ug 10 or more grams, a level 2 felony; possession of cocaine, 28 grams or more, a level 3 felony; reckless driving at unreasonable high or low speed as to endanger safety, a class C misdemeanor and operating a vehicle while intoxicated endangering a person, a class A misde- meanor. James Robert Kent charged with possession of meth, less than five grams, a level 6 felo- ny; possession of a controlled substance, a class A misde- meanor; theft, a class A mis- demeanor and possession of meth, less than five grams, a level 5 felony. Dana M. Moyes charged with seven counts of neglect of a dependent, the abandon- ment or cruel confinement deprived a dependent, a lev- el 5 felony; seven counts of neglect a dependent places dependent in a situation that endangers the dependent, a level 6 felony. TRAFFIC AND MISDEMEANOR Pike Circuit Court Adam Wesley Risley charged with possession of marijuana, a class B misde- meanor. Chance Adam Risley charged with possession of marijuana, a class B misde- meanor. Brayden Cowherd charged with possession of marijuana, a class B misdemeanor. Working while collecting early benefits Dear Rusty: How much would be withheld from my social security benefits? I am 62 and can claim about $1,900 a month now. I'm still working, making about $75K per year. How much of my benefits would I get? What would be withheld from me and when would I get it back? And would there be any penalty? Signed: Eli- gible but Working. Dear Eligible: In the scenario you describe, you will not be eligible to collect Social Security retirement benefits at this time because your earnings are too high. Here's how that is deter- mined: • At age 62, you are subject to Social Security's "earnings test" which limits how much you can earn while collecting early benefits. The earnings limit applies until you reach your full retirement age (FRA), which for you is 67. • Your penalty for exceed- ing the earnings limit now would be $1 for ever y $2 you are over the limit. At your cur- rent salar y of $75K per year, you will be over the 2022 an- nual earnings limit of $19,560 by $55,440, which means you would owe Social Secu- rity $27,720. Since your age 62 benefit amount is about $1900 per month ($22,800/ year), your annual SS benefit would be insufficient to off- set the penalty for exceeding the earnings limit, thus you would not be entitled to a Social Security benefit because of your current earnings. You will again be el- igible to collect SS when your earnings are substantially less, or when you reach your full retirement age, whichev- er occurs first. Social Security's earnings test affects ever yone who works and earns when col- lecting benefits before reach- ing full retirement age. Each year, Social Security sets a limit for how much can be earned before benefits are affected (the 2022 limit is $19,560; it increases slightly each year). Those who ex- ceed the limit pay a "penalty" of $1 for ever y $2 they are over the limit, which must be paid to SS either in a lump sum, or by having benefits withheld for enough months for SS to recover what is owed. If your Social Security ben- efit isn't enough to offset the penalty for exceeding the earnings limit, no benefits will be paid. Those collect- ing early ben- efits who ear n only slightly more than the annual ear nings limit can col- lect some ben- efits each year because their penalty is small enough. For example, some- one ear ning $25,000 per year would exceed the 2022 ear nings limit by $5440 and, thus, incur a penalty of $2720. That would probably mean about two months of withheld benefits, enabling them to get benefits for the remaining 10 months of the year. Social Security will with- hold benefits for enough months to recover whatever the beneficiar y owes for ex- ceeding the limit. The rules surrounding Social Security's earning test are somewhat complex. For example, there is a "first year rule" which exempts salar y earned prior to claim- ing SS from counting toward the earnings limit. When someone first claims Social Security mid-year they are, instead, subject to a month- ly limit ($1630 for 2022) for the remaining months of the calendar year. If the monthly limit is exceeded, no benefits are payable for that month. The earnings limit no longer applies when full retirement age is reached but is still in ef fect in the months of that year prior to attaining FRA. The earnings limit during those months is much high- er and the "penalty" for ex- ceeding it is less. Social Security prefers that those working and collecting early benefits contact them in advance to withhold benefits for as long as needed to offset the expected penalty. Doing so will avoid an Overpayment Notice being issued in the fol- lowing year when your earn- ings amount is received from the IRS. After full retirement age, Social Security will adjust the beneficiar y's payment to account for months benefits were withheld and increase the monthly amount ac- cordingly. That will result in some, or perhaps all, of the withheld benefits being re- covered over time (depend- ing on longevity). To submit a question, vis- it website (amacfoundation. org/programs/social-securi- ty-advisor y) or email ssadvi- sor@amacfoundation.org. Social Security Matters By Rusty Gloor Court Report displacing West Virginia and Pennsylvania coal miners with Chinese mining. We need coal in our energy mix, as even the Germans now admit. Then there is the collater- al damage of $100 billion of lost annual output in the U.S. because of the anti-energy cli- mate change agenda. Again, none of this makes any sense. Why are we sacrificing our own economic opportunities and handing them to China on a silver platter? Biden, however, could not be bothered to care. At the NATO conference this past week, he chattered about the virtues of windmills and solar panels, as if the U.S. is not ex- periencing an energy crisis of his own making. What all this means is that if we want to save our economy from raging inflation and at the same time save the planet, we should be producing all of the U.S. energy we can. Stephen Moore is a senior fellow at Freedom Works. He is also author of the new book: "Govzilla: How The Relentless Growth of Government Is De- vouring Our Economy." Arab Emirates to silence criti- cism of China's genocidal pol- icies toward Muslims. Although China's actions are both wicked and heart- breaking, it isn't surprising given its past actions in Tibet and Inner Mongolia. For many years, there has been an ongoing debate among multinational corpora- tions about the ethics of do- ing business in China. That has become increasingly more contentious as China has sent over 1 million ethnic Uyghurs into forced labor camps. Between Xi's authoritarian- ism and his economic policies that are moving China toward a more centrally planned economy, doing business in China is no longer a question of trading morals for profits. Rather, it is increasingly clear that Xi is killing China's gold- en goose, and multinationals need to accelerate moves to less risky, less immoral, and less ideologically hostile nations—whether Thailand, Mexico, or Kenya, or back home in the United States. Xi's adherence to Maoist socialism will continue to make the economic and hu- man rights issues plaguing China only worse in the fu- ture, making it harder and harder for foreign firms to operate there. Companies owe it to shareholders to get out of China on their own terms before Xi forces them out on his. Peter St. Onge is a research fellow in the Thomas A. Roe Institute for Economic Policy Studies at The Heritage Foun- dation. DIM Continued from page 2 DEAL Continued from page 2 Need something interesting to read? subscribe to 812-354-8500 subscribe@pressdispatch.net CALL or email For a print or NetEdition subscription, Life Milestones made free CALL: 812-354-8500 Put a free photo with write up on your Family and Class Reunions.