If you didn’t pay the tax nobody should be getting the benefit...
I want Elon to get access to the Social Security data he needs. I want to see just how much we’ve been screwed out of.
It would be great if I do.
Some of the issue is legit, and some is not.
In California, a sister of mine worked for a state institution and was covered by a state pension. During that time they, the state, came to them with a plan sold as a plan to raise the potential state pension benefit they would receive. For that, they would have the same amounts that would have gone to Social Security to go instead into the state pension plan. In that way their state contributions would be higher, resulting in higher state pension benefit when they retired. Little emphasis was made of the fact that their social security benefit would be lower than it otherwise would have been.
I tried to explain that to my sister when the plan was initiated.
I believed at the time the state pensions system was underfunded and they wanted to divert the social security withholdings to the state pension system.
So, in reality, my sister and the state did not pay her personal share of social security withholding to social security. It went to the state pension system.
Regardless of that fact, the stupid law now forces social security to raise her benefits on the basis of contributions for her that social security never recieved.
There are some other circumstances, other cases, that differ from hers, and for which some adjustment may be deserving.
As of today’s payment, I can safely report that I am not among the 3,000,000 getting a boost...
Yawn... Glad that my wife & I (since 1960) prepared for our retirement years...
Rush helped us when he pointed out the benefits of canned dog food...😎
Let it be me that gets the money!
I want mo money!