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C-4 Wednesday, September 7, 2022 The Press-Dispatch Court Report Widow asks about collecting survivor benefits Social Security Matters By Rusty Gloor CIVIL DOCKET Pike Circuit Court Discover Bank sues Brenda Carter for civil collections. Capital One Bank sues Christopher Woodall for civil collection. Teresa Humbert sues Steve Slunder for civil plenar y. In re: The marriage of Zeffrey Dale West and Tabitha West. In re: The marriage of Mar y Shalabi and Zakareya I. Shalabi. SMALL CLAIMS Pike Circuit Court PROCOL sues Steve Slunder for com- plaint. PROCOL sues April Sircy and Jesse Sircy for complaint. PROCOL sues Thomas Simpson for complaint. PROCOL sues Dakota Belcher and Kaelyn Slayton for complaint. PROCOL sues Mandi Yeats and Robin Randell for complaint. CRIMINAL DOCKET Pike Circuit Court William McAvoy charged with two counts of neglect of a dependent, de- prives dependent of necessar y support, a level 6 felony. Samantha Jo Lawrence charged with two counts of neglect of a dependent, de- prives dependent of necessar y support, a level 6 felony. TRAFFIC AND MISDEMEANOR Pike Circuit Court Jennifer Mallor y charged with harbor- ing a non-immunized dog, a class B mis- demeanor. Brian D. Shover charged with operat- ing a vehicle with a blood alcohol content of 0.15 percent of more, a class A misde- meanor; and operating a vehicle while in- toxicated, a class C misdemeanor. Jayden Gordon charged with driving while suspended, with conviction in last 10 year, a class A misdemeanor; and false informing, a class B misdemeanor. Joshua J. McDowell charged with driving without a license, a class C mis- demeanor. Donald C. Phillips charged with op- erating a vehicle with a blood alcohol content of 0.15 percent or more, class A misdemeanor. Jerri L ynn Wheatley charged with theft, a class D felony. Nathan Odell charged with theft, a class A misdemeanor. Kentar Collins charged with driving while suspended with prior conviction in last 10 years, a class A misdemeanor. Crista Michelle McCormick charged with possession of marijuana, a class B misdemeanor; and possession of para- phernalia, a class C misdemeanor. INFRACTIONS Pike Circuit Court Bailey C. Morris charged with seat belt violation. Gavin A. Pancake charged with speed- ing. Samantha E. Moorman charged with speeding in a 70 zone. Edwin J. Boyd charged with speeding in a school zone. Donald B. Villwock charged with speeding. Antonio M. Cortez charged with driv- ing while suspended and speeding in a school zone. Michael W. Jones charged with speed- ing. Jesus O. Rivera charged with speed- ing. Alan D. Dorsey charged with seat belt violation. Cesar A. Ruano charged with speed- ing. James R. Hellums charged with speed- ing. Adam H. Russell charged with no valid drivers license; operating without finan- cial responsibility and disregarding a stop sign. Chad A. Kempf charged with speeding. Allison E. Stallings charged with speeding in a school zone. Cameron A. Decker charged with speeding in a school zone. Cali M. Woodburn charged with speed- ing in a 70 zone. Keelan B. Farque charged with speed- ing in a 70 zone. Stacy M. Sermersheim charged with speeding. Zachar y Ryan Alkire charged with speeding in a 70 zone and expired plates. Tara S. Dreblow charged with speed- ing. Peyton G. Sorgius charged with speed- ing. Francesca M. Heminger charged with speeding in a 30 zone. Parker S. Chandler charged with ex- pired plates. Misael A. Dubon charged with speed- ing. Amanda K. Elshoff charged with speeding. Steven M. Miller charged with speed- ing in a school zone. Katherine L. Wagler charged with speeding. Margaret-Catherine R. Hendrix charged with speeding in a 70 zone. Jacob G. Bedwell charged with speed- ing. Katherine L. Powell charged with speeding. Jessica R. Nowark charged with speed- ing. Patrick J. Baker charged with speed- ing. Timothy D. Sult charged with speed- ing in a school zone. Cynthia A. Mosbey charged with speeding in a 55 zone. Jeffrey W. Uebelhor charged with speeding in a school zone. Dillan A. Taylor charged with speeding in a school zone. David L. Goodrich charged with driv- ing while suspended. Hunter D. Neukam charged with speeding in a 70 zone. Wayne R. McDaniel charged with speeding in a 70 zone. Autumn N. Isaacs charged with speed- ing. Celeste D. Orrill charged with expired plates. Julie M. Fischer charged with speed- ing in a school zone. Brittany L. Brock charged with driving while suspended and disregarding a stop sign. Daniel C. Blessinger charged with speeding in a school zone. Terr y N. Turner charged with speed- ing in a school zone. Timothy M. Jochim charged with speeding in a school zone. Jonathan L. Simpson charged with speeding in a 70 zone. Daris Conser ve Fils charged with speeding in a 70 zone. Mark A. Portwood charged with speeding in a 55 zone. Braydon A. Riley charged with speed- ing. Luke W. Rager charged with speeding in a 70 zone. William J. Black charged with operat- ing a commercial vehicle without a CDL. Lauren E. Frederick charged with speeding. Ashleigh N. Hess charged with speed- ing in a 55 zone. Alison A. Waggoner charged with speeding in a 70 zone. Amanda J. Br yant charged with speed- ing in a 70 zone. David N. Haviland charged with no val- id drivers license. Cynthia D. Small charged with speed- ing in a 70 zone. Kelvin G. Reyes charged with speed- ing in a 70 zone. Ajay Krishnaswamy charged with speeding in a 70 zone. Zebulon McNeal charged with speed- ing in a 70 zone. Joseph W. Bath charged with speeding in a 70 zone. Charlemagne Lundi charged with speeding in a 70 zone. Jamari D. Joseph charged with speed- ing in a 70 zone. Melanie N. Overfield charged with speeding in a 70 zone. John W. Mulherin charged with speed- ing in a 70 zone. Marianna E. Alexander charged with speeding in a 70 zone. Stephen D. Hampton charged with speeding in a 70 zone. Tatiana Anderson charged with speed- ing in a 70 zone. Dezaray L. Donald charged with speeding in a 30 zone. Robert M. Harris charged with speed- ing in a 70 zone. Maverick J. Pancake charged with speeding in a 70 zone. Isaac S. Green charged with speeding in a 70 zone. Elizabeth L. Truelove charged with speeding in a 30 zone. Jax R. Nicholson charged with speed- ing in a 55 zone. Jose M. Escalera charged with speed- ing in a 55 zone. Robert L. Uppencamp charged with speeding. Lucas R. Hardin charged with speed- ing. Lana D. Smith charged with speeding in a 55 zone. COLLEGE Continued from page 3 UNION Continued from page 3 TREATY Continued from page 3 a book called Uncle Sam's Plantation: How Big Gov- ernment Enslaves America's Poor and what We Can Do About It. NAACP is doing its part making college too expen- sive and getting govern- ment more involved to make things worse. Star Parker is president of the Center for Urban Renewal and Education and host of the weekly television show "Cure America with Star Parker." Dear Rusty: My husband died several years ago in 2019. It is my understanding that I should be receiv- ing some portion of his Social Security pay- ments. However, when I called to notify Social Security that he passed, they told me not to touch his last check be- cause it would be taken back. I was eight years younger than my hus- band, so I am still only 58. I also have always made more income than he did. How do I find out if there is some sort of residual that I should still be re- ceiving? Signed: Widowed Wife. Dear Widowed Wife: The reason you were told "not to touch" your husband's last check is because benefits are not payable for the month a person dies. So- cial Security pays benefits in the month following the month they are earned, so someone who dies before month ends isn't entitled to benefits for that month. Social Security will, indeed, take that pay- ment back. As a sur vivor, you aren't entitled to those benefits because they were award- ed to your deceased husband and will be taken back because he didn't live the full month. As for any benefits you are entitled to as your husband's sur vivor, you cannot collect a monthly sur vivor benefit until you are at least 60 years old (un- less you are disabled, in which case you can collect as early as age 50). Sixty is the earliest age to collect sur vivor benefits, but claimed at age 60 the sur vivor benefit will be reduced by 28.5 percent from what it would be at your full retirement age (FRA) of 67. Sur vivor benefits reach maximum at your FRA, but taken any earlier will be reduced by .396 percent per month early, to a maximum reduction of 28.5 percent. You are, however, entitled to a one-time lump sum death benefit of $255, for which you can contact Social Security at 1-800-772-1213 (or at your local SS office). You should also be aware that taking any monthly SS benefit before reaching your full retirement age of 67 will subject you to Social Security's "earnings test," which limits how much you can earn be- fore they take back some (or all) of your benefits. The earnings limit changes annually but for 2022 the limit is $19,560 and, if that is exceeded, SS will take back bene- fits equal to $1 for ever y $2 over the limit (they "take back" by withholding future benefit payments or requiring you to re- pay in a lump sum). If you're working full time and earning substantially more than the annual earnings limit, it's usually not prudent (and may not even be possible) to claim your monthly sur vivor benefit before your full retirement age. From what you've shared, it doesn't ap- pear that you are currently entitled to any Social Security sur vivor benefit, other than the one-time death benefit of $255. You may consider claiming a sur vivor benefit when you are sixty, but your work status and earnings level may restrict or eliminate your ability to collect a monthly sur vivor benefit at that time. Once you reach your FRA, however, the earnings test no longer applies, and you can apply for any benefit available to you. When the earnings test goes away at your FRA, you can also choose to take your smaller sur vivor benefit first and let your personal SS retirement benefit grow, to maximum at age 70 if you wish. To submit a question, visit website (amacfoundation.or g/pr ograms/so- cial-security-advisor y) or email ssadvi- sor@amacfoundation.org. Perhaps the union was simply bought off by the leftist interest groups. Oth- er AFL-CIO affiliates have made the same boneheaded decisions. Pipefitters, steel workers, construction work- ers, auto workers, truckers and many other hard-hat unions are putting them- selves in similar peril. The anti-industrial green movement will lead to higher energy costs for ever y union across the countr y. The jobs will be shipped off to China — which doesn't care about climate change and where miners make perhaps $2 an hour. The Left calls this an "en- ergy transition." At the end of that transition, there will be no American coal pro- duced and no coal workers to produce it. Biden was wrong about "no one producing coal" when he became pres- ident. And there are new coal jobs out there. But they are in China, which is building 43 massive new coal plants right now. 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." #StopNaziUkraine." That's proof enough of Amnesty's folly. But with Amnesty coming out against Ukraine—and therefore, tacitly, on the side of the Russians—it's now possible for any clever left-wing lawyer who didn't like the U.S.' arms transfers to Ukraine to begin with to claim that those transfers are being used in "attacks direct- ed against civilian objects," and thus that those transfers are banned under the treaty. That's what I mean when I say that the treaty is a way to dress up policy arguments in legal clothes. If you want to ignore Amnesty, you can (and you should). But if you don't want to, or you don't understand their sophistr y, or you don't care to figure it out, or you're on the fence—well then, a le- gal argument based on the treaty, supplemented by an Amnesty report, could sound pretty persuasive. The treaty was funda- mentally flawed from the beginning. It was never go- ing to have any influence on regimes like that of Russian President Vladimir Putin. It was always going to focus on the democracies. 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