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He Retired With 800 Gallons of Maple Syrup in the Barn. Social Security Did Not Treat the Next Spring’s Sales as New Work.

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A Vermont sugarmaker retired with a barn full of finished syrup and a nagging fear that every sale the following spring would trigger Social Security benefit reductions. The answer depends on a little-known SSA rule about when work actually counts as work.