/users/recently_answered/1361 Questions Recently Answered by Jim Thu, 08 Jan 2009 10:49:30 -0800 http://www.guruza.com/question/521/reward-10.00/1183 Re Social Security Retirement benefits. I now have poverty level earnings and am nearing retirement age. I read in my social security statement the following: "Remember, it's your earnings, not the amount of taxes you paid or the number of credits you've earned, that determine your benefit amount." In the 1980s, for various reasons, I didn't file taxes at all but earned a high income, sometimes over six figures. If I could file for those years now (even though I could never afford to pay the fees and penalties), would that unreported income be used to figure my retirement benefits? Seems unlikely to me, but maybe somebody knows different. . . . Thu, 26 Apr 2007 07:53:36 -0700 http://www.guruza.com/question/538/reward-0.00/1182 how much faster does a 10 pound steel ball fall than a 3 pound steel ball? Tue, 12 Jun 2007 12:58:04 -0700