Since the first 30 days are free, you can try it out before you pay. Beginning this week, the Social Security Administration will begin mailing annual statements to 125 million working Americans. The reports will be mailed in batches of 500,000 a day, timed to arrive about three months before the worker's birthday. We are not sure exactly how the relationship will involve agents, but InsWeb will offer Northwestern Mutual's 10 and 20 year and renewable term products. Despite President Clinton's veto of the Republican tax bill, the elimination of the federal estate tax has support from both conservatives and liberals in Congress.
Proponents believe it is a vital source of revenue for the government.
It is, however, unlikely that Congress will create a separate bill for estate taxes, so sleep a little better.for now. Meanwhile, the IRS has notified Congress that any tax law changes for the 2000 tax filing season need to be on the President's desk by October 7 in order to allow time to print tax forms. The EEOC is conducting an age discrimination investigation and several bills to regulate the plans are pending in Congress. Bending to complaints from its older workers, IBM announced that it would give an additional 35,000 employees the option of staying in its defined benefit plan. There is a great article in the September Life Association News about how to reach them.