[Paleo Conservative]

What do people born after 1960 have in common with “Baby Boomers”? I resent being lumped together with them.

[qam1]

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[Red Badger]

The Social Security trust fund, if left alone, is projected to go broke in 2041...

I'll be 86 if I'm still alive.......

[Menehune56]

The treason party is waiting until they have functional majorities in both houses and the presidency, then they’ll remove the cap on earnings subject to FICA payments, implement a means test on pay-outs, and raise the retirement age to 75. Net result is the people who contributed the most will probably end up with nothing or much less than they expected.

[Capt_Hank]

I turned 62 in August. I applied in May, got my first check October 3rd. Now, if you think Motor Vehicle operations are bad, just wait until you deal with the SS folks.

I had to apply a second time, the old biddy didn’t know she had to hit “enter” and “save”, for my information to be in the system. Then, after all of this, you will get the final appointment via telephone. Still scratching my head about this issue.

[Snickersnee]

My parents were married on VJ-Day and I issued forth nine months later. I have a better claim to “First Boomer” than does she. So there.

[groanup]

[Gay State Conservative]

Anyone under the age of,say,60 who thinks that their retirement will even remotely resemble that of their WWII-generation parents
needs to have his/her head examined.Within the lifetime of all such people “Social Security”,as we know it today,will cease to exist.In it’s place an entity will be created...and most likely called “Social Security”....that will be 100% means-tested thus making it a form of welfare and enraging those of us who were stupid enough to save for our retirements.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

***The nation’s first baby boomer applied for Social Security benefits today,***

No he isn’t! My brother born in 1948 is on SS due to health problems and is disabled.

*** Casey-Kirschling, who now lives in Maryland, was born one second after midnight on Jan. 1, 1946***

And I was born Dec 31, 1946!

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

***The nation’s first baby boomer applied for Social Security benefits today,***

No he isn’t! My brother born in 1948 is on SS due to health problems and is disabled.

*** Casey-Kirschling, who now lives in Maryland, was born one second after midnight on Jan. 1, 1946***

And I was born Dec 31, 1946!

[GOP_1900AD]

Do the math with the limits set 4 years earlier and it’s even worse. It’s already hit and going out of control fast. Arguably, the real boomer generation is 1942 - 1960.

[M Kehoe]

[Whistle]

[Yellow flag thrown]

Ten yard penalty on AP and the Houston Chronicle for unadulterated bullsh#t. Still fourth down.

My brother applied for SS benefits 11 months ago. He is 65.

Why can't these people, so called 'journalists' get ANYTHING right?

5.56mm

[GOP_Lady]

My baby sister was born in the last year of the baby boomers, and my next younger sister and my twin sister and I are not too far before that. It’s going to be really interesting when the end of the baby boomers hit, that’s for sure.

[Captain Peter Blood]

The Baby Boomer Generation I think is from 1946 to 1964. Although I don’t know the criteria for why these years alone. I always thought some of the kids born during WWII were Baby Boomers but according to this I guess not.
Please give the criteria and reasoning if anyone knows.

[Captain Peter Blood]

Now as I understand it this woman is a retired teacher with presumably a good retirement.
The only way we be able to save SS is that those who really don’t need it not apply for it when eligible. Much like Medicare, if you there are those who able to afford private insurance let them opt out.

[kabar]

The Social Security trust fund, if left alone, is projected to go broke in 2041, though Astrue said he hopes Congress will address the issue, perhaps after the 2008 presidential election.

It goes broke in 2017. The SS Trust Fund doesn't contain any assets, just liabilities.

[kabar]

The Social Security trust fund, if left alone, is projected to go broke in 2041, though Astrue said he hopes Congress will address the issue, perhaps after the 2008 presidential election.

It goes broke in 2017. The SS Trust Fund doesn't contain any assets, just liabilities.

[McCloud-Strife]

and so it begins

[Eva]

Kathleen’s high school picture was in the newspaper a couple of years ago, I guess when she turned sixty. When I saw it, I said to my husband, doesn’t this picture of the first baby boomer look like someone you could have known? He said, no. Then I looked at the name under the picture and realized that I did know her.

[Radix]

As long as there is paper, the Government will be able to continue to send all all Social Security benefit checks.