https://sundayeveningreview.com/tags/earnings-test/Recent content in Earnings Test on Sunday Evening ReviewHugoen-usThu, 18 Jun 2026 06:00:00 -0500https://sundayeveningreview.com/money/social-security-survivor-benefits/Thu, 18 Jun 2026 06:00:00 -0500https://sundayeveningreview.com/money/social-security-survivor-benefits/<p>Beverly Hartmann came to see me eight months after her husband Dennis died. She was sixty-four years old, still working three days a week as a dental hygienist in Fond du Lac, and she was two months away from filing for Social Security. She&rsquo;d done her homework, she thought. She knew her benefit was going to be around $1,100 a month at sixty-four, reduced from what she&rsquo;d get at sixty-seven, but she needed the income and the logic seemed sound.</p>