but in an interview with Telemundo last month.

387 fires in the Pantanal in the first 13 days of November.The Pantanal sits at the southern edge of the Amazon rainforest which was also devastated by unprecedented fires in 2019 stretching from Brazil into Bolivia and Paraguay across more than 65.

We call it gray hunger when fire reduces all the vegetation to ashes and there are no natural food sources left in the area for animals that survive the flames.The situation is completely out of control.Brazil The Pantanal wetlands in western Brazil are famed as a paradise of biodiversity.

The other main front that firefighters are battling is in the Pantanal National Park to the southwest.Theyre part of an invisible food chain.

Experts say the fires are mainly caused by human activity.

A dead crocodile is seen as forest fires rage in the Pantanal wetland in Porto Jofre.Thats why Kotlikoff urges people to keep careful records of their interactions with the Social Security Administration.

The widows scamAnother mistake that can result in lost benefits is what Kotlikoff calls the widows scam.Kotlikoff told CBS MoneyWatch.

Your chance of being one of those people is pretty high.such as claiming both a survivors benefit and retirement benefit at the same time.