AARP Social Security Resources. If you and your spouse file a joint return with a combined income below $32,000, your benefits are out of reach. For income between $32,000 and $44,000, up to 50 percent of benefits may be taxable, and up to 85 percent if combined income is more than $44,000. For more information, go to Social Security's website.
More than 16 percent of Americans -- as many as 35 million people -- suffer from depression severe enough to warrant treatment at some time in their lives, according to the National Comorbidity Study, sponsored by the National Institutes of Health and published today in a special issue on depression of The Journal of the American Medical Association ...
Additionally, there are goals to increase the percentage of adults with depression who receive treatment, from 68.3 percent in 2008 to 75.1 percent in 2020, and to increase depression screening by primary care providers.More information is available here.7] The two factors most strongly associated with maternal depression, in turn, are intimate-partner violence, and mothersâ health. [8]. Children of depressed mothers are more likely than other children to have behavior problems, academic difficulties, and health problems (including psychiatric illness).