For couples, it's preferable that the higher earner delay taking Social Security as long as possible.
It would, on the other hand, be a nice little earner for sheep shearers.
Finally, single earner couples do better than singles and two-earner couples because of the survivor benefits.
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Typically, the higher earner claims his or her benefit at full retirement age, then suspends it.
In 2009, two-thirds of the 22 million full-time working mothers were in dual-earner families.
Retail banking might have been a nice earner, but their high-street operations are small and dreadful.
If you have young children and a single earner household, life insurance is probably very important.
At the end of that week, the top vote earner will win the Grand Prize.
Sniffing out fraud and shorting its perpetrators has been a nice earner for Asia's hedge funds.
You may qualify for free services, especially if you're elderly or a low- to moderate-income earner.
Tourism, Nepal's biggest earner of foreign currency, has been badly hit by the insurgency.
The Cuban economy now rests on just two pillars: tourism Cuba's biggest hard-currency earner and Miami.
Tourism is an important money-earner with duty-free goods being a big draw for visitors.
It was also a big earner for Bullock, who had a profit-sharing deal on the project.
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Weddings, which used to be a nice little earner, are not the sure thing they once were.
The town's beaches have been a tidy earner since 1498, when Vasco da Gama was welcomed ashore.
Married heterosexual couples can maximize their Social Security retirement benefits by taking advantage of the highest-earner's benefit.
It also has a nice little earner in the form of a contract with the American navy.
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Even renting out flats to foreign companies - a huge profit earner for us - has gone down.
The firms employ some 53, 000 North Koreans and the zone is a key revenue earner for the North.
That used to be a disincentive for a husband in a one-earner family to delay claiming Social Security.
If The Ides of March gets good word of mouth it could prove to be a good earner.
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Another scenario where a SIMPLE makes sense is a dual-earner couple who can live off of one income.
In the late 1990s, the fuel-tax escalator made rising taxes on motoring a nice little earner for the Treasury.
But as the country's garment sector has boomed, turning into its biggest export earner, concerns about safety have risen.
Take, for example, a 62 year-old high earner, named Sally, with a 66-year old low earner spouse, named Joe.
If this latest film proves popular with kids it could be a good earner considering it is in 3-D.
The clothing industry, another big foreign-exchange earner, has laid off hundreds of workers.
Approximately 38% of wives were out-earning their spouses, including wives who were the sole earner in a family.
The lower earner cannot claim any benefits based on the higher earner's benefit.
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