The House GOP wants to cut up to $2 trillion in mandatory spending from the federal budget over the next 10 years -- is Social Security on the chopping block?

President Trump has linked two budget items, and that may be a good idea. Trump wants to extend his 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act and provide some other tax breaks, and we need to fix Social Security. The link between tax cuts and Social Security exists because one of Trump’s new tax-cutting proposals would exempt Social Security benefits from taxation under the federal income tax.

If your spouse never worked or worked very part-time, they may not be eligible for Social Security based on their own earnings record. Instead, they may be limited to spousal benefit from Social Security. Your spouse may, in that case, be entitled to up to 50% of your monthly Social Security benefit at full retirement age.

You can definitely work while receiving retirement benefits -- and you may eventually get more money because of it.

You may not remember much from 1975, but it was when Gerald Ford was president, Saturday Night Live premiered on TV, and the Vietnam War ended.