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First Baby Boomer Receives Social Security
The Denver Channel ^ | 02/12/08

Posted on 02/12/2008 7:37:17 PM PST by MotleyGirl70

Direct Deposit Expected To Be More Common

VERO BEACH, Fla. -- The nation's first baby boomer received her first Social Security retirement benefit Tuesday in Vero Beach, Fla., local station station WPBF is reporting.

Kathleen Casey-Kirschling was born one second after midnight on Jan. 1, 1946. The 62-year-old retired teacher who lives in Earleville, Md., and Vero Beach applied for her benefits online, and received her payment by direct deposit.

"Like many of her fellow boomers, Kathy leads a full and busy life," said Jim Courtney, Social Security deputy commissioner for communications. "By choosing direct deposit, Kathy's benefit is safely and conveniently deposited into her bank account. No matter where in the country - or the world - Kathy is, her money is as close as the nearest ATM or just a mouse click away through online banking."

This marks another milestone for the post-World War II generation.

Federal officials in Florida are calling her "a trendsetter for her generation" since she decided to receive her benefits by direct deposit.

"Direct deposit is a win for everyone," said Judith R. Tillman, commissioner of Treasury's Financial Management Service. "For the last three years, Treasury has led a campaign called Go Direct to educate Americans about the many benefits of direct deposit. We at Treasury congratulate Kathy on receiving her first Social Security payment and on her decision to Go Direct."

At an event Tuesday in Vero Beach, Social Security also premiered a new video public service announcement that promotes filing online for retirement benefits. The video, featuring Casey-Kirschling, was posted to the Social Security Web site Tuesday afternoon.

Social Security officials claim that direct deposit eliminates the risk of lost or stolen checks, reduces fraud, helps protect against identity theft and gives people more control over their money. Direct deposit also saves taxpayers millions of dollars. According to the Financial Management Service, if every current federal benefit check recipient switched to direct deposit, it would save taxpayers about $130 million a year.

Over the next two decades, nearly 80 million baby boomers -- about 10,000 per day -- will become eligible for Social Security.

If no changes are made, the Social Security trust fund is projected to deplete its reserves in 2041 and will begin paying out more in benefits that it collects in payroll taxes in 2017.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: babyboomers; genx; retirement; seniors; socialsecurity
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To: Danette
I guess I thought you were older cuz you posted that your hubby will retire in two years and collect SS....that would make him 60 now. Of course I was kidding anyway, just trying to get in the spirit of these boomer threads.
101 posted on 02/12/2008 8:54:44 PM PST by HerrBlucher
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To: ToastedHead
Don’t forget to have fun and sample the chicks in your 20’s. Then when you get to the 30’s like me, you won’t feel like you missed out and you’ll know you have the best/right person.

Believe me, I already have. I'm not exactly good with women, and I missed out on a whole host of great ones in high school. College is nearly over for me (well, in terms of credit hours...) and I've gotten exactly nothing from the ladies. Ah well.
102 posted on 02/12/2008 8:55:20 PM PST by Terpfen (Romney's loss in Florida is a catastrophe.)
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To: PennsylvaniaMom
Not only that but a baby boomer would have been born by definition 9 months after the war ended. It wasn't 1946 that defined what a baby boomer was, it was how they were born. The first boomer should be May 1946.

The only exception is Bill Clinton, who somehow managed to get born only 6 months after his Mother's husband got home from the war.

103 posted on 02/12/2008 8:55:49 PM PST by Defiant (The new GOP: A slow road to socialist authoritarianism. Hoorah!)
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To: goodnesswins

“For you X’rs.....just thought of this....My husband and I SAVE about 30% of our NET pay per year....and have been for a while...”

This is the exact plan I started last year. Where did you put it? Right now I have it sitting in a Money Market and I feel like I am being dumb.


104 posted on 02/12/2008 8:57:49 PM PST by ToastedHead
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To: eyedigress

I think that’s Boomerism inflation. It used to only go through 56.

Hank


105 posted on 02/12/2008 8:59:06 PM PST by County Agent Hank Kimball
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To: PennsylvaniaMom
"...is this woman really the first?

Obviously not. Stastically speaking, the first boomer had to be born in the fall of 1942, and I'm sure that they are receiving SS by now.

106 posted on 02/12/2008 9:01:50 PM PST by editor-surveyor (Turning the general election into a second Democrat primary is not a winning strategy.)
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To: Fester Chugabrew
All her life she’s been followed by the media.

at what point did the media realize she was the first baby boomer? did they already know as soon as she was born? they couldn't already know there was going to be a baby boom at that point... so when? how did they find her? interesting...

107 posted on 02/12/2008 9:02:03 PM PST by latina4dubya
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To: Terpfen

“Believe me, I already have. I’m not exactly good with women...”

Trust me on this. We chicks crave confidence. The guy who won me in the end was not the highest earner, or the smartest. But he knows exactly who he is and what he believes.


108 posted on 02/12/2008 9:02:17 PM PST by ToastedHead
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To: HerrBlucher

Social Security is a slow-motion Ponzi scheme and you are witnessing the first drops of water overflowing the dam in what promises to be the single most massive economic failure in human history.

Kinda changes things a bit when you realize that all that money that got paid in has already been spent on other government programs, and all that is left in the bank is an empty promise.

On the bright side, euthanasia seems to be more politically popular these days.


109 posted on 02/12/2008 9:03:54 PM PST by FR Class of 1998 (I voted to defeat Hillary Clinton today!)
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To: ToastedHead

Oh, good stuff then. Confidence is about all I’ve got to give right now.


110 posted on 02/12/2008 9:04:57 PM PST by Terpfen (Romney's loss in Florida is a catastrophe.)
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To: Terpfen
work for the gummit in some way...cop, teacher, military, firemen, dams, etc etc....

you will have a guarentee pension.....SS will not be as necessary as for those without pensions...

111 posted on 02/12/2008 9:05:25 PM PST by cherry
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To: weegee
This is what makes the Baby Boom “BOOM” in numbers a problem.

Death rates for a given age are relatively constant. At some point the leading edge of the population boom will move into the death windows. The spike observed in births will be matched by a similar spike in deaths. At some point, it will reach equilibrium between new boomers entering retirement and the leading edge assuming room temperature. It won't be an endless upward spike in demand for SS benefits.

112 posted on 02/12/2008 9:05:32 PM PST by Myrddin
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To: County Agent Hank Kimball
I’m a bit confused. I was born in 1960, and all my life I’ve been told I was post-baby boom. I’ve always heard the baby boom ended in the mid-fifties. When did they extend the “baby-boom” to 1964??? Hank

Hmmmm, I have always thought it was 46 to 64.

113 posted on 02/12/2008 9:06:41 PM PST by HerrBlucher
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To: cherry

Maybe I can run for the House in a couple of years. I’m more conservative than my current representative.


114 posted on 02/12/2008 9:07:13 PM PST by Terpfen (Romney's loss in Florida is a catastrophe.)
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To: ErnBatavia

“April of ‘09 for me, and I’m going on the teat immediately, basically just to piss off the X-ers on this board. Screw ‘em.”

May of ‘09 for me. However, I only get 40% of SS, because I worked over half of my life under SS, and then the last almost half for a State gov’t entity, a public university. Thus, I paid into the State university retirement system for those years, and even though I have all my credits because of having worked the majority half of my life under SS, I will only get 40% of SS. So, if I take out my SS at 62, I will get two cents waiting for change. If I wait until I am 66 (which is my official can retire year) I will get four cents waiting for change. Haven’t made up my mind yet whethet its better to take the two cents for a longer period or the 4 cents by waiting, although one can indeed croak and not get to the 4 cents part. Decisions, decisions.


115 posted on 02/12/2008 9:08:03 PM PST by flaglady47 (Space for rent: seeking new candidate tagline that will last more than 1 week)
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To: Terpfen
"I’m 23. Combining this news story with the imminent election of a liberal (whether it be a Republican or a Democrat) I may as well just bend over and grab my ankles."

I'm right there with ya on bending over, being just a few years older. By the time we are in our 40s we will probably be all out slaves to socialist security.

It's time to end this madness now! I've been seriously looking into 'under the table' work to offset what is confiscated from me by this forced "retirement pension" that I have no desire to participate in and or will never see.

116 posted on 02/12/2008 9:08:24 PM PST by KoRn (CTHULHU '08 - I won't settle for a lesser evil any longer!)
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To: HerrBlucher
I guess I thought you were older cuz you posted that your hubby will retire in two years and collect SS....that would make him 60 now. Of course I was kidding anyway, just trying to get in the spirit of these boomer threads. Yeah, I thought you'd be confused. My hubby is 16 years older than me. And now that I've learned that 1964 is in the baby-boomer generation, I better be scared of those generation X'ers.
117 posted on 02/12/2008 9:13:20 PM PST by Danette ("If we ever forget that we're one nation under God, then we will be a nation gone under.")
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To: County Agent Hank Kimball

It actually moved around a little until the sharp decline in births in 65. It was meant to become a marketing block which proved to pay off very well.


118 posted on 02/12/2008 9:14:33 PM PST by eyedigress
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To: FR Class of 1998

It won’t fail catastrophically for several more years. I would say that most of the boomers will probably skate, it will be retiring gen-x that will have to fight off angry gen-y and z. And yes, by that time euthanasia will be routine.


119 posted on 02/12/2008 9:16:00 PM PST by HerrBlucher
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To: HerrBlucher

oops, screwed up on the formatting in the post above to you. my reply is at the end. :)


120 posted on 02/12/2008 9:17:01 PM PST by Danette ("If we ever forget that we're one nation under God, then we will be a nation gone under.")
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