Toby
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quote: Originally posted by dietrichbohn
@#$^$&@$^#% Social Security Administration!.
hehquote: Get this: I do my first ever married taxes (and just had my first married vday...), and it turns out that the "marriage penalty" doesn't apply to earn-nothings like me: we're getting a monster sized refund. Well, the marriage penalty hit us _hard_ the first few years (and neither of us is exactly raking it in - she's a teacher). The secret to getting beyond the marriage penalty is evidently...get this...having a kid! They expect you to get married to procreate? What kind of GovCo is this?  quote: I e-file via turbotax (so nice, so easy), and I'm expecting money in the back lickety split. If it'd have worked, it would have been. I e-filed on the night of the 7th.quote: ...not 3 hours later I find that we've been rejected becuase my wife's name change didn't make its way to the SSA. So I go to their website, which is not as helpful as I'd like, and I discover that the only way to get it done is either mail your valuable documents in or take them in yourself during normal business hours. of course, my wife is a teacher and "normal business hours" for her mean "not at all" becuase it's so difficult for her to get time off (ironic, no?), so now I have to go in and prove my identity, her former identity, and her new identity. After our experience dealing with the marriage license process (they didn't believe that either of us had been born and neither set of parents seemed to have the 'proper' 'proof' handy), we made sure to get those changes made and verified ASAP.quote: After all that is done, 4 weeks for the change. 4 gd weeks. Then, and only then, can we file our stupid taxes! Ouch.quote: the moral of the story(here is the kicker!): The IRS is the paragon of customer service, speed, and ease of use--when compared to the SSA. Sure, but that's like saying that Satan is the model of kindness and goodness when compared to Cthulu.quote: ...*pant*...*pant*...*pant*...*pant*
I'm curious to hear your thought on the new module. can you post a mini-review---it's been awhile since we're heard on the state of GPS on the visor. Sure thing.
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