Posted on 03/19/2016 6:14:19 AM PDT by george76
The number of people receiving benefits from the Social Security Administration topped 60,000,000 for the first time at the beginning of 2016.
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The total number of beneficiaries includes retired workers and their dependents, survivors of deceased workers, and disabled workers and their dependents.
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In February, there were 151,074,000 people employed in either full or part-time jobs in the United States, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics ...
There were 123,206,000 people employed full-time in February, according to BLS’s seasonally adjusted numbers. That equals approximately 2.05 full-time workers per each beneficiary of the Social Security Administration.
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The 60,199,914 beneficiaries in February included 40,338,983 retired workers, 2,342,674 spouses of retired workers, 659,198 children of retired workers, 6,064,984 survivors of deceased workers, 8,896,604 disabled workers, 139,269 spouses of disabled workers, and 1,758,202 children of disabled workers.
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Nope. I’ll never see a dime. Granted, there’s not that much in there, but it’s still mine. I’m sure somebody will get it as a crazy check, as our homeless here call thier SSI check. It’s a combo of my pension and the fact that my husband and I CHOOSE to defer a significant amount of our income, living far below what most young families live on, in order to plan for our future. We’re not leaving our golden years up to a pension board. As for not scrapping SS, you might want to search FR and see what we think of it before making your comment again.
Only Retirees and spouses should be on that list. Get rid of the rest.
Correction;
If you work in a gov’t. job that is “NOT covered by SS” then of course you will not recieve SS retirement benefits. But you knew that going in.
I don’t have enough points accrued as compared to my pension. It’s not a lot of money, but it’s still money that I worked for. My mom is in the same boat. She worked a couple of years before marrying dad. She’s worked for the state the last ten years and recently retired. She gets her state pension, although tiny, and what she’s chosen to defer. No SS although she paid into it. She didn’t work long enough.
But before the job I had now, I worked at a nursery and landscaping company. I paid into SS. I’ll never get that money back. It’s a small amount, but it’s mine.
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“State employees do not get to collect SS”
Then again you didnt pay into it while working for the State, so that is understandable. I assume when you were working your way through college you didn’t pay in enough to be eligible to collect SS?. My buddy whom is a California Teacher bitches about the same thing, then I remind him what are you doing with that extra 4-5k a year your not paying into SS? Put away and propely invested would net probably a 300k plus nest egg after 35 years on top of a VERY fair State pension.
Since I can never retire, when I do start to collect SS I look at it as a tax cut for the over 65 warriors.
I was referring o your use of the English language.
I’ll never see a dime. Granted, there’s not that much in there, but it’s still mine.
You have to pay to play. If you don't pay in the required am't. you shouldn't complain about not getting any benefits. Whether SS is right or wrong was not the point of my comments.
SS gets raped between disability and Medicaid.
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One of these days I’ll learn to type.
Got mine before they start handing out I.O.U’s to the new filers. Could have waited but didn’t.
State employees get their big fat pension and SS.
We are constantly scolded by politician for not buying into thier scare tactics about Social Security being broken.
But they keep opening the benefits up to more groups of people who have not paid into the program and have done nothing to earn benefits.
A generation or two ago disability was reserved for those truly mentally or physically disabled.
And it was a difficult process for most people to get approval.
Now disability is freely handed out to weak minded slobs with bad habits.
I know of quite a few young, able bodied males and females on disability for things like overweight, alcoholism, drug addiction, attention disorder, etc.
I think that to some degree Obama and the liberals have used the Social Security system as another vehicle for wealth redistribution.
This because of daytime TV advertisers like the Cochran Firm and the dozen or so other shysters that hawk their services hourly on daytime TV.
You quoted via italics, “The system needs scrapped.”
What English language conventions have I ignored?
Also, in your reply, you have a random “o.” Additionally, you ended the same sentence with a prepositional phrase.
The government has no right to take money for the greater good. At the ripe old age of 15, I certainly wasn’t worried about pension systems and SS. I was worried about saving for a car and saving for college. Hell, I didn’t even know what I was going to do for a living! Would it be an SS job or state pension job? During college I was worried about staying debt-free. When I was old enough to be concerned about government overreach, I couldn’t help but become irritated at never getting something that I earned. If you find a 15 year old who is concerned about the issues I wasn’t, I’ll find out how much I paid in and then write that 15 year old a check for the amount.
Perhaps some do. My husband and I will not. We have deferred a significant amount of our income, though. We live well below what most young families do in order to have a nice retirement. My beach house will be purchased with money deferred, not pension money.
I didn’t go to college, but I’m pretty sure the words “to be” were left out of that sentence twice.
Actually, I already have more than $300K in deferrals. Anybody who has put money into SS should be able to roll that over into an IRA, for example. It was earned.
But did you sleep at a Holiday Inn?
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