If you are divorced, had been married to that person for at least 10 years, and are not remarried, you may be able to collect on your former spouse’s earnings record as a divorced spouse, provided their monthly benefit payments are higher than what you would receive based upon your own earnings record. You must be at least 62 years old and your former spouse must also be ... more

If your spouse has passed away, you can still receive retirement benefits based upon your spouse’s earnings record as long as they would have been eligible to receive benefits themselves. If you are at least 60-years-old and unmarried, you can receive widow or widower’s benefits that amount to the full benefit your spouse would have received upon reaching their own retirement ... more

When you reach retirement age, you may be eligible to collect retirement benefits through the Social Security Administration. Your benefits are based upon your earnings record, so how much you work and how much money you make throughout your life determines how much you will receive in retirement. In order to be eligible, you must have worked enough to earn the required ... more

While on occasion we hear in New Hampshire and Massachusetts news of a bookkeeper who has embezzled money from a company, many such embezzlements are resolved by private restitution agreements and therefore do you get to the public eye.  Theft by employees does occur in the workplace and employers should take steps to curtail the opportunity for employees to steal.  For a ... more

Under state and federal discrimination laws, employees cannot have adverse employment actions taken against them or be harassed due to certain protected classes such as race, disability, and age.  However, merely because you fall within one of those protected classes it does not give you the ability to act unprofessionally and insubordinate.  That reality was discussed in ... more