Posted on 04/01/2020 6:07:44 PM PDT by justme4now
What??? No Depends???
My kids and grandchildren are happy that I’m getting a check. It’s called “family”.
I’ve already spent way too many hours of my life reading their ever changing, GD “Code”.
What the hell? Does everyone get free money out of this but me?
That sucks.
What a freaking arrogant statement! I'm on SS and I work because the SS doesn't cover all my bills, let alone having any extra. Right now I'm working less than 50% of my normal hours because of the shutdown. Therefore, $1200 to me won't be "pissed away". It will be used to pay bills, (like lights, insurance, phone, etc)for a couple of of months. You're an a$$.
NYS allows 20k per person from pension tax free. Pretty good deal.
Try scoring tix to the Oprah show.
She gives out free stuff occasionally.
I congratulate you because nowadays its not the norm....so many Americans have lost their believe in family helping family .....
I do the same....family does for family, either for the older generation or the younger....
Then ask your accountant.
Mine went down $70 this year because we had an unexpected windfall last year. Obama rules jacked up our Medicare premium. Should go back to normal next year. The bastard.
These people are real professional benefit queens. Estimate they are at minimum bring in $4k to $5k a month now an additional 1200 each. This whole crap is getting out of control.
As we got close to retirement we did a proforma tax return in 12 states we would consider moving to. NYS was not that bad. CA, NJ were bad. WE would pay more in NC than NY.
“Do you think all senior citizens drink booze and do drugs?”
Well...booze.
The fed gov taxes up to 85% of your SS if your total income is above like $25,000. Ask me how I know.
By the way, this new “no file” for seniors on SS ( what about SSDI?) is limited. If someone gets SS but also filed tax returns for 2018 or 2019, the same rules that apply to everyone else apply. Like if you make too much, you get nothing. They’ll use your 1040 AGI.
Just sayin . . .
I just started receiving SS also WHY would we be getting money WE are not unemployed??? This is just stupid just my opinion!!!
They are promoting the very stupid idea that the government has money of its own. It does not. So now less taxes are going in and more money is going out to make it all better. Yeah, that’ll work...in asshole land...
How can they get this while an adult (zero income) who is claimed as a dependent on their child’s tax return gets nothing?
I don't have a basement for either of my kids to live in. There was a time when I thought the only way I could get my youngest son to move out of the apartment was to die, but he moved to Indiana, about 5 years ago, got a decent job, and a nice girlfriend. That all went to $hit in March 2019, when he was diagnosed with cancerous polyps...big ones. They had to do two resections on him, and took out about 78 lymph nodes. He went through about 7 months of chemo treatments, and although he tried to go back to work while he was on chemo, he ended up with bronchitis, then the next time he went back, he ended up with a blood clot in his lung, caused by the chemo.
He hasn't been able to work since, because the chemo also gave him severe neuropathy pain in his hands and feet, and it hasn't diminished at all since his treatments ended in November. He and his girlfriend got married last April while I was there. That way she could use family leave to take him to his chemo treatments. Since this lockdown, she hasn't been able to work, and is hoping Geico will be able to set her up to work from home soon. My son is getting some form of disability, but it's not that much, and I don't know if his wife is getting any compensation from Geico. I don't ask, but I do try to help them with their bills. He's still got hospital and medical bills from his operation last year, on top of a car payment, insurance, and other bills.
They don't have the time.
It's very perplexing that my tax forms after retirement are WAY more complex than when I was working. I wouldn't/don't have the interest in ginning up all of those increased # of forms now when I always did my own taxes up until about 5 years ago.
It's totally crazy. Everybody needs to file forms.
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