[DesertRhino]

“It’s important that we don’t double dip.”

Why? If you satisfy all the requirements of a Social Security vesting, you should get that amount commensurate. Even if you were in a teacher system for a decade or two also.
I notice the right people do not get their pensions docked, such as Congressmen.

[hanamizu]

“It’s important that we don’t double dip.”
Why? If you satisfy all the requirements of a Social Security vesting, you should get that amount commensurate.

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I failed to add the /s tag. Of course I should get the amount I earned, but I don’t and I don’t think I ever will. Thing is, unlike my state pension, the money I ‘contributed’ through the payroll tax isn’t really mine.

Why Congress decided to call whatever I might draw that I fully earned a ‘windfall’, I don’t know. Windfalls are apples from your neighbor’s tree that fall on your property. You didn’t grow or tend the tree, but you get some of the fruit. I paid the money in, but only get 60% of what I should get.

I long ago decided to not be bothered by it. Nothing I can do.