[AmeriBrit]

You've misunderstood the treaty that was signed in 2001.

What that treaty meant was any credits from a foreign country could be added to your credit here in the US, BUT, the amount you would receive from the US government would be reduced by the amount you received from your native country which mean when it's all rounded off you don't gain anything and the minimum age is still 62 yrs old.

This was one reason I held off for so long before I became a US citizen as I'd been led to believe I would be able to draw SS from both countries but when my husband, myself and our legal counselor did the necessary research and consulted the Social Security Dept also we found out the information we had previously believed was false.

[bpjam]

Actually, you receive SSI in your home country just as if you were a US citizen. The rules don't actually change based upon your citizen (which now seems absurd since we are talking about people who illegally were working and paying into the system). The treaty was signed pre-9/11. It was mostly a formally and was done back when Bush was still optimistic that Fox wasn't going to be a complete tool.