[mamelukesabre]

SS pays more than just retirement benefits. There are lots of people that are way under 60 years of age or have never worked that still collect checks from SS.


If you had some numbers on that portion of the population broken down by race, I'd be curious to see them.

[PeteyBoy]

SS pays more than just retirement benefits. There are lots of people that are way under 60 years of age or have never worked that still collect checks from SS.


You are sooo correct! I wish someone would push a button on the main computer at SS headquarters and find out just how many people under 62 years of age get benefits. It would drive the "seniors" nuts. Then we might get some reform.

[freedox]

Not that it really helps anything, but Social Security payments are available only to those who have worked and paid into the system (or their dependents.) Supplemental Security Income (SSI) is for the poor and the non-workers, and those payments come from the general tax fund.