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WESH/WKCF U-LOCAL CIRQUE DU SOLEIL DRALION SWEEPSTAKES

HOW TO ENTER AND HOW TO WIN: The "WESH/WKCF U LOCAL Cirque du Soleil Dralion” sweepstakes ("Sweepstakes") entry period begins August 15, 2011, and ends on September 18, 2011, at 3 p.m. ET ("Sweepstakes Entry Period"). For purposes of this Sweepstakes, all times refer to Eastern Time ("ET"). To enter for your chance to win, go to www.wesh.com, create a U-Local account (or use your existing account) and follow the instructions to upload your Back to School-themed photo in the U-Local section of WESH.com during the Sweepstakes Entry Period. Entry photos may be posted by Sponsors on WESH.com and/or www.cw18tv.com. To be eligible, photo submissions must meet the following criteria: (1) Photos must be deemed family friendly, in the sole discretion of Sponsors. (2) You may only contribute photos that you have taken yourself or that you have all rights to transmit and license and which do not violate trademark, copyright, privacy or any other rights of any other person. (3) By entering, you grant permission for wesh.com, cw18tv.com and Sponsors to receive and display the photo. (4) You warrant that you have permission from any and all persons (or, if a minor, his/her parent/guardian) appearing in your photo for you to make the submission and grant the rights described herein. (5) You may not contribute photos that contain expressions of hate, abuse, offensive images or conduct, obscenity or pornography or any material that could give rise to any civil or criminal liability under applicable law or regulations. (6) You may not upload any material that contains software viruses or any other computer code, files or programs designed to interrupt, destroy or limit the functionality of any computer software or wesh.com and cw18tv.com websites. (7) By uploading a photo, (a) you grant to www.wesh.com and www.cw18tv.com, Sponsors, and Sweepstakes Entities a perpetual, non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license to use, copy, print, display, reproduce, modify, publish, post, transmit and distribute the photo and any material included in such photo on the Internet, on television, and in, on, or through all other media; and (b) you certify that any person appearing in the submitted photo (or, if a minor, his/her parent/guardian) authorizes Sweepstakes Entities to use, copy, print, display, reproduce, modify, publish, post, transmit and distribute (“Use”) the photo and any material included in such photo on the Internet, on television, and in, on, or through all other media; and (c) you agree to indemnify wesh.com, cw18tv.com, Sponsors, and Sweepstakes Entities and their affiliates, directors, officers and employees and hold them harmless from any and all claims and expenses, including attorneys’ fees, arising from Use of the photo and/or your failure to comply with these rules. Limit twenty (20) entries per person per valid email address per day during the Sweepstakes Entry Period. Entries in excess of the stated limit will be rejected or disqualified and are not eligible entries. Sponsors may not verify receipt of entries. Entries become property of Sponsors and will not be returned. Incomplete entries are void. Sponsors are not responsible for entries that are lost, late, misdirected, incomplete, incomprehensible, illegible, damaged, undeliverable or delayed. Entries generated by any automated means that are detected as such are void. Entries must be received by 3 p.m. ET on September 18, 2011. On or soon after September 18, 2011, one grand prize winning entry will be randomly selected from the photo submissions, and the person who submitted that entry will be the winner, subject to verification. Winner will be notified by email, or by other means, on or soon after September 18, 2011, based on the contact information provided in the entry. If winner does not respond to Sponsors’ notification of winning by 5 pm, September 21, 2011, that winner is subject to disqualification and forfeiture of prize in which case an alternate winner may be randomly selected, time permitting. Prize must be claimed and releases and other paperwork must be executed and SSN provided by September 21, 2011. By entering, you agree to comply with all applicable law and these Sweepstakes rules, and you agree to abide by all decisions of the Sponsors. In the event of a dispute over who submitted an entry, electronic entries will be deemed to have been submitted by the authorized account holder of the email address referenced in the entry. The authorized account holder is the person to whom the applicable internet service provider or other organization (such as a business or educational institution) has assigned the email address at the time of entry.

Bogleheads :: View topic - Social Security: Government Pension Offset

Unless you meet one of the exceptions in paragraph (b) of this section, your monthly Social Security benefits as a wife, husband, widow, widower, mother, or father will be reduced each month you are receiving a monthly pension from a Federal, State, or local government agency (Government pension) for which you were employed in work not covered by Social Security on the last day of such employment. Mea culpa: I didn't fully describe our situation. I'm indeed referring here to the GPO for spousal benefits. (I've already calculated my benefits after applying the WEP using the detailed calculator from Social Security, and the results were not pretty. My wife is older, so I'm trying to see if spousal benefits at my Full Retirement Age (FRA) would be greater, in spite of the GPO, then my own benefits as decmiated by the WEP. If you receive a government pension, certain circumstances cause an offset against your Social Security benefit. Benefits payable as a spouse, divorced spouse, surviving spouse, surviving divorced spouse, or a deemed spouse may be reduced if the person receives periodic payments based on his or her own employment in the Federal Government, State or I think this applies to a state teachers' retirement system. Local school districts are set up by state law, they have elections, and they have the power to tax; that sounds like a political subdivision of the state, just as a city or county is a political subdivision of the state. I worked for a state university, and I was a state employee; my pension is a state pension (but it was also covered employment under a section 218 agreement*). If your wife worked for a state university, how would she not be an employee of the state? [You did say "public" university - was it set up by the state? sponsored by the state? partially supported by the state?] A Section 218 Agreement is a voluntary agreement between the State and the Social Security Administration (SSA) to provide Social Security and Medicare Hospital Insurance (HI) or Medicare HI-only coverage for State and local government employees. These agreements are called "Section 218 Agreements" because they are authorized by Section 218 of the Social Security Act. Pension eligibility and entitlement are determined by the pension paying agency, not SSA. Some defined contribution plans have specific requirements an individual must satisfy to be considered eligible for or entitled to a pension payout (i.e.

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