[freedumb2003]

>>Worse than paying them is paying immigrants who come here after the age of 65 and collect from day one.<<

Do they get paid? I get an annual statement on my input to SS and expected payout (I always laugh).

Is there a separate schedule? Just curious so I can look it up (and probably get POd).

[SUSSA]

I just found out about it six or seven months ago. A family from Pakistan got their citizenship last month. The wife does my secretary’s nails and told her that they were bringing her husbands parents over and she had to get the paperwork together so they could sign up for Social Security the day they arrive.

I called Social Security and asked if my immigrant neighbor could bring his father over and have his father get Social Security and they said, only if my neighbor is a citizen.

How’s that for a kick in the nuts?

[SUSSA]

It’s SSI not Social Security Retirement but it comes out of the Social Security Department.

http://www.ssa.gov/ssi/text-eligibility-ussi.htm

[Kickass Conservative]

Immigrants over 65 can receive Supplemental Security Income (SSI), not Social Security.

SSI does not require payments into SS by the Recipient. It is there for the blind, disabled etc.

I believe the change was actually implemented during the Nixon Administration. I had thought it happened under Carter, but I was mistaken.