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What AARP is not telling you about SS payments
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What AARP is not telling you about SS payments
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I think AARP has a reponsibility to let potential retirees know that Social Security payments total the same amount of dollars thru age 77 regardless of what age retirees start taking benefits. This f
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Re: What AARP is not telling you about SS payments
posted at January 30, 2013 2:04 AM EST
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Good scoop umbarch64, I've been a member and supporter of NCPSSM for a few years now and they are in our corner in the fight to preserve S.S. and Medicare. Response to Re: What AARP is not telling you about SS payments: IF....you truly think Social Security should be preserved as a function of government for the benefit of the People.....THEN you should consider using information only from credible sources. One such source is the National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare, 10 G Street, Suite 600 -Washington DC 20002-42115 1-800-966-1935 www.ncpssm.org 'course.....hard data won't satisy the agenda the ponzi scheme addicts bought into......but rational people will find it useful. Posted by umbarch64 |
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Re: What AARP is not telling you about SS payments
posted at January 30, 2013 12:14 PM EST
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In Response to Re: What AARP is not telling you about SS payments: In Response to Re: What AARP is not telling you about SS payments : I think most of us don't understand SS and Medicare except that these are 2 insurance and social programs that most of us couldn't do without. We really don't understand how SS is now suddenly going "bankrupt" except that the politicians have been dipping into it. How are people to survive who don't have pensions or hefty retirement savings? As for Medicare, which my husband and I have just gotten on last year, I don't consider it an "entitlement" as we're paying about $600 a month beyond the taxes that we pay for Medicare Part A as we're still working part-time as seniors. It's the politicians who haven't properly funded these programs. Now, if we were paying that $600+ a month for private insurance, which is affordable, there wouldn't be an outcry from the Republicans. Yet, we know that no private insurance company would ever offer that to us. I'm tired of these programs being called "entitlements" as the politicians never call their taxpayer-sponsored pensions, health insurance and benefits "entitlements". This is ironic because they can afford their own health insurance and pensions. Instead of privatizing our own "entitlements', why don't they give up their own?Posted by intersan You do need to understand what you are paying for and how it is paid for - All your payroll deductions through the years (and now, since you are still working) plus your employer match goes to fund the OASDI (Old Age - Suvivors-Disability Insurance) part of Social Security and MEDICARE PART A (the HI or hospital portion of Medicare.) What you are paying out of pocket for now is MEDICARE PART B, normally $ 104.90 per month but higher for higher income senior. The division of this fund is seniors pay 25% of the current assessed cost of the program and 75% comes from the General Fund. Unless you have pick an all inclusive, private insurance company, Medicare Advantage Plan, then you are probably paying for a MEDICARE D plan to fit your needs, also with a premium surcharge for higher income seniors. You might also be paying for a private insurer MEDIGAP policy which covers the part of the medical charges which are not covered under traditional Medicare (Parts A & B). |
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Re: What AARP is not telling you about SS payments
posted at February 6, 2013 10:56 AM EST
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Flemming v. Nestor: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flemming_v._Nestor "there is no contractual right to receive Social Security payments. Payments due under Social Security are not “property” rights and are not protected by the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment." SS is no diiferent than any other welfare program. It just has a different marketing scheme. |
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Re: What AARP is not telling you about SS payments
posted at February 6, 2013 3:51 PM EST
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Utabintarbo, with all due respect and regardless of what your agenda may be, Social Security is by no means a welfare program by any stretch of the imagination.Response to Re: What AARP is not telling you about SS payments: Flemming v. Nestor: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flemming_v._Nestor "there is no contractual right to receive Social Security payments. Payments due under Social Security are not “property” rights and are not protected by the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment ." SS is no diiferent than any other welfare program. It just has a different marketing scheme. Posted by utabintarbo |
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