In fact, with the exemption in effect, shoppers from the suburbs and perhaps those from nearby parts of Connecticut, which has a 6.35 percent sales tax, might be enticed by a simple calculation: Shop for clothes (under $110) in New York City, and pay no sales tax. And city residents might be enticed to stay.
For example, if you're 64 years old, taking home $1,100 a month in Social Security benefits ($13,200 annually), and you earn $24,000 in wages in 2016, you can expect the SSA to reduce your 2016 annual benefit by $4,140 ($24,000 minus $15,720, then divided by $2). Your net benefit would be $9,060.
The average Social Security retirement benefit is about $1,300 per month ($1,328 in 2015), and the maximum at full retirement age is more than $2,600 per month ($2,663 in 2015), but the exact amount youâll get every month depends on how much you earned over your lifetime and how old you are when you start collecting Social Security.