Cat scratch disease (CSD) is a bacterial disease caused by Bartonella henselae. Most people with CSD have been bitten or scratched by a cat and developed a mild infection at the point of injury. Lymph nodes, especially those around the head, neck, and upper limbs, become swollen.
Your Social Security benefits are calculated based on your highest 35 years of earnings or half of your spouseâs benefits -- whichever is higher -- if you retire at full retirement age (currently 66). For a worker retiring at age 66 in 2012, the maximum benefit is currently $2,513 per month. If both you and your spouse earned the maximum amount that counts every year ($110,100 in 2012, but just $16,500 in 1977), you could each receive the maximum monthly benefits.
When a retiree reaches the month of his or her 66th birthday, the earnings limit no longer applies and any amount can be earned without penalty. Maximum possible benefit grows. The maximum possible benefit a retiree can claim at full retirement age in 2014 is $2,642, up from $2,533 in 2013 and $2,513 in 2012. The announcement of the Social Security cost-of-living adjustment was delayed by two weeks due to the 16-day federal government shutdown that ended on October 16.