[Pearls Before Swine]

Do these people who have been on food stamps and welfare all their lives get SS when they get 65? And Medicare?

To get SS you have to have a certain amount of working years--I think it's 40 quarters, or ten years--over your lifetime. Your benefits depend on how much you earned.

So, I doubt they get SS. I suppose they would get some sort of welfare, continued food stamps, and continued Medicaid.

[jch10]

When most people retire, they stop receiving their salaries and begin SS, which is much less than their salary was.

Without my savings plan, investments, retirement from my job, and SS, I’d have to take a cut at 65.

But, those who have been on welfare and haven’t worked, have no reduction in benefits at 65. What a country!!

[cherry]

but if you get the magic disability SS, you get MUCH MORE than you normally would....

my sil has been on SS TWICE...once for tweaking her neck and she was able to stay home for the entire time her kids were young and then she got a puffy job and worked a little here and there....

she fell off her ladder a short distance and from that episode she got back on SS diability for good...her and her good for nothing husband BOTH on ss disability ...its been a fun game for them....

[cherry]

but if you get the magic disability SS, you get MUCH MORE than you normally would....

my sil has been on SS TWICE...once for tweaking her neck and she was able to stay home for the entire time her kids were young and then she got a puffy job and worked a little here and there....

she fell off her ladder a short distance and from that episode she got back on SS disability for good...her and her good for nothing husband BOTH on ss disability ...its been a fun game for them....