Luccile,  Your earlier post was very on point about what Ben should consider doing,

Maybe better yet he should consider being a politician, whom they say you  can know they

are lying  anytime their mouths are moving.  Ben's claim about going 1099 seems not to hold any

water, because he would have the same income taxes, and half to pay his own SS tax (making his income actually go DOWN.   He has a story for everything.