Depending on when you starting collecting I'd wager that you've already gotten that and more.
Major thread drift...but I have to answer...
What is collected, by force, really doesn’t have anything to do with what is received. A promise was made..and should be upheld. If I had the cash given to this Ponzi scheme during my working life, with interest and invested..even in a bank...you my Friend would not have an ax to grind.
I sincerely regret that you are at the bottom of the pyamid. But it had to happen. Gripe at the government that squandered the funds. And from what I read..they are trying to fix the problem...sure they are.
I’ve been collecting SS for about five years. I’ve payed into it, at the maximum rate, all my working life. Just think what I could have done with that money if the government didn’t demand I pay into the system. Now they are threatening to stop it? I don’t think so.