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Social Security’s full retirement age takes a jump in 2025. – Los Angeles Times

…Next year, the full retirement age is increasing by two months again: People born in 1959 must be 66 years and 10 months old to get their full benefits.

For those born in 1960 and later, the retirement age will jump to 67.

Social Security recipients have the option of claiming benefits earlier than the designated full retirement age. You can begin receiving your benefits as soon as you turn 62, but the amount will be greatly reduced, about 25% less if your full retirement age is 66 and 30% less if it’s 67.

If you wait until you turn 70 to start taking benefits, you will be rewarded with a higher amount…

Source: Social Security’s full retirement age takes a jump in 2025. – Los Angeles Times

Greetings for Your Season | From Behind the Pen

Image Credit: Jenny_Nguyen

Well friends, it seems like many of us are taking a much-needed respite between now and the new year by giving our fingers a break from the daily postings we have committed ourselves to writing throughout the year. And honey chile, that is okay.

So if you’re celebrating ChristmasHanukkah (Chanukah), or Kwanzaa, make this a time to reflect on continued joy, peace, hope, the growth of love, and less on the stress of mess and busyness. Whatever your greeting for the season is, I bid you abundant blessings to embrace and savor these special moments in time, however you choose to celebrate them. Cheers everyone! 🥂

Source: Greetings for Your Season | From Behind the Pen

Kilauea on Hawaii’s Big Island, one of world’s most active volcanoes, erupts | Hawaii | The Guardian

Lava bursting through the Earth's surface, with clouds of gas accompanying it

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Kilauea volcano begins erupting on Hawaii’s Big Island – video

Eruption was confined to volcano’s summit caldera, with torrents of red-hot lava and cloud-line plumes of gas visible

Red torrents of lava and billows of volcanic gas began erupting from Kilauea on Hawaii’s Big Island – one of the world’s most active volcanoes.

The eruption was confined to the volcano’s summit caldera, in a remote, closed area of Hawaii Volcanoes national park, the Hawaii Volcano Observatory reported. Increased earthquake activity began at about 2am local time and within about half an hour webcam images began to show lava emerging through fissures in the caldera or spurting in fountains.

A live stream of the eruption, broadcast by the US Geological Survey on Monday, showed spurts of red-hot lava bursting upward, followed by cloud-line plumes of volcanic gas and ash. The fountains reached up to 80m (260ft) high early on Monday morning,

“The lava is coming out at a very rapid rate as it usually does at the onset of these eruptions,” said Ken Hon, the scientist-in-charge at the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory, during a USGS live stream.

Source: Kilauea on Hawaii’s Big Island, one of world’s most active volcanoes, erupts | Hawaii | The Guardian