Social Support Changes in Response to Retirement

willingness to communicate in the iranian context: language learning orientation and social support

why some learners are willing to communicate in english, concurrently others are not, has been an intensive investigation in l2 education. willingness to communicate (wtc) proposed as initiating to communicate while given a choice has recently played a crucial role in l2 learning. it was hypothesized that wtc would be associated with language learning orientations (llos) as well as social suppo...

Towards a Global Social Support System: A Response to the Recent Commentaries

efl teachers job satisfaction and social capital in relation to students’ motivation

abstract this mixed method study examines whether there is any relationship among the variables of the study (job satisfaction, social capital and motivation). the researcher considered job satisfaction and social capital as independent variables; motivation is the dependent variable of the study. the researcher applied a questionnaire to assess each variable. to measure efl teachers’ job sati...

Have people delayed claiming retirement benefits? Responses to changes in Social Security rules.

This article examines changes in the age at which people claim Social Security retirement benefits in response to two recent changes in the Social Security rules: the removal of the retirement earnings test at ages 65 to 69 in 2000 and the gradual increase in the full retirement age (FRA) for those born in 1938 or later. Data come from the 1 percent sample of Social Security administrative data...

Recent changes to the Railroad Retirement Act.

Recent Changes to the Railroad Retirement Act* The Social Security taxes shown are the employee taxes only and are derived by applying the combined OASDI and HI tax rates in the present law to the projected earnings amounts. The Federal income taxes shown are approximate and are based on a summary of the provisions of The Economic Recovery Tax Act of 1981 (Public Law 97-34). For the years 1985 ...