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 ...
1 Women are twice as likely to have depression, and symptoms of depression, as men of the same age. 2  12% of all women in the United States will experience symptoms of clinical depression at some point in their lives. 3  Approximately one in ten women experience symptoms of depression in the weeks after having a baby.epression rates vary by gender, age, and ethnicity. In general, women are at higher risk of depression than men, ethnic minorities are at greater risk of depression than non-Hispanic whites, and adults aged 45-64 are more likely than any other age group to have a diagnosis of depression.