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Yahoo
2 days ago
- Yahoo
Woman, 80, seriously hurt in hit-and-run moped crash in Chinatown
An 80-year-old pedestrian was seriously injured after being struck by a moped in Chinatown during an attempted police traffic stop Friday afternoon, authorities said. At about 2 :20 p.m., an on-duty Honolulu Police Department officer near the intersection of North Hotel Street and Maunakea Street saw 'an unidentified moped operator commit multiple traffic violations … (and ) attempted to initiate a traffic stop, ' according to a HPD Traffic Division report. Police said the moped operator failed to stop and turned onto North Hotel from Smith Street, going westbound, and struck an 80-year-old trying to cross North Hotel Street in a marked crosswalk. The moped then also hit a vehicle driven by a 47-year-old woman traveling south on Maunakea Street. Honolulu Emergency Medical Services officials said paramedics responded to the scene at Maunakea and North Hotel streets, and treated the 80-year-old woman, who was taken to the hospital in serious condition. The 47-year-old woman and her passengers stayed at the scene and were not injured. Police said the moped rider fled and has not yet been identified. Anyone with information about the crash should call the Traffic Division at (808 ) 723-3413. See more : 23 Comments By participating in online discussions you acknowledge that you have agreed to the. An insightful discussion of ideas and viewpoints is encouraged, but comments must be civil and in good taste, with no personal attacks. If your comments are inappropriate, you may be banned from posting. Report comments if you believe they do not follow our. Having trouble with comments ? .
Forbes
13-05-2025
- General
- Forbes
Need A Login.Gov Account To Protect Your Social Security Benefits?
Do you remember Telephone, the game we played as kids? Someone whispers a message in the first child's ear, who whispers it to the next in line, and so forth. It always produced howls of laughter when hearing how twisted the message had become. In April, we witnessed a 2025 version of Telephone. The first message in the chain came from a set of undated Social Security Q&As describing an important change. 'Starting March 29, 2025, when you sign in to your personal my Social Security account using your username and password, you will be required to transition to to access our online services.' 'If you do not transition your Social Security username to or you don't have an account, you will not have access to your personal my Social Security account.' The first message was that, if you do not have a or account, you will not be able to access your Social Security account but there would be a transition period to get one. Then, instead of ears, the message passed from website to website. Somewhere along the chain, the message changed. Headlines on internet posts threatened that Social Security would pause, interrupt or suspend retirement benefits if not transitioning by the deadline. (This was not part of the original message and benefits would not be affected.) So, instead of laughter, the chain ended in hysteria. Here's an example. On April 15, an 80-year-old woman called my business. She recently read online that if she didn't have a account, there could be an interruption in her Social Security benefits. She was very stressed and had no idea what to do. She needed her benefits. I spent some time checking the internet to see whether I could identify where the breakdown started, which turned out to be impossible. Maybe someone reading the Q&As believed that you collect Social Security benefits through a Social Security account so suspending access would suspend benefits. (Federal law mandates that Social Security benefits must be made electronically to a designated account, with no connection to a Social Security account.) In just one sitting, I found 11 website postings and two YouTube videos connecting a failure to set up an account with interruption of benefits. Interestingly, six of those sites were based in Spain, which has no Social Security. And, as they say, once it's on the internet, it stays on the internet. On May 12, I found this AI overview. 'Social Security beneficiaries are required to transition to using for accessing their online accounts and services, starting March 29, 2025. This transition is mandatory to avoid potential interruptions in benefits.' According to the Google Keyword website, 'Because accuracy is paramount in Search, AI Overviews are built to only show information that is backed up by top web results.' AI may have thought that, because the same information appeared on at least 13 sites, it was accurate. There are questions that don't have answers at this time. Putting all that together, consider these points. Don't be intimidated. The website will guide you along to set up an account and sign in through (An old colleague of mine just went through this successfully, and if he could do it, so can you.) As a kid, it was fun to see how passing a message from one source to another could corrupt it. However, when dealing with our lives, we need facts. Ignore the speculations.
