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Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Chapter 1 -- How the Social Security System Operates -- FICA tax -- Medicare tax -- Medicare tax on earned income -- Medicare tax on net investment income -- Not everyone is covered under Social Security -- Summary -- Chapter 2 -- Benefit Eligibility -- Summary -- Chapter 3 -- Social Security Retirement Benefits -- Retirement benefits -- AIME -- Calculating the PIA -- Reduction in benefits for claiming benefits early -- Delaying Social Security retirement benefits -- Spousal retirement benefits -- Working after retirement -- Summary -- Chapter 4 -- Social Security Survivors' Benefits -- No benefits in the month of death -- Children's benefits -- Dependent parent's benefits -- Summary -- Chapter 5 -- Disability Income Benefits -- Characteristics attributable to disabled-worker beneficiaries -- Medical eligibility for Social Security disability income benefits -- When SSDI benefits will end -- Summary -- Appendix A OASDI and SSI Program Rates & -- Limits 2019 -- Appendix B OASDI and SSI Program Rates & -- Limits 2018 -- Chapter 6 -- Taxation of Social Security Benefits -- How benefits are reported -- Summary -- Chapter 7 -- Medicare -- Original Medicare -- Medicare premiums and coinsurance rates Medicare Part A -- Current Medicare premiums and deductibles -- Are the premiums tax-deductible? -- Skilled nursing care under Medicare Part A -- Home healthcare coverage Under Medicare Part A -- Hospice coverage Under Medicare Part A -- Medicare Part B coverage -- Medicare Part C Advantage plans -- Medicare Part D - Prescription drugs -- Medicare supplemental (Medigap) insurance -- Summary -- Chapter 8 -- The Future of Social Security and Medicare -- The system is strained -- Fixing the problems -- Summary -- Appendix A -- Fact Sheet -- Index -- Solutions -- Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2.