SOCIAL SECRRITY ! (Rant !)

[Boaz]

LOL , a rant !@!@! I went on SS as of the first of this month . Go my first 'billing) , It's insane !

Dialed the -help- number , got the phone on my ear right now. The 'recording' said .....WAIT TIME IS ONE HOUR !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I am hacked off ! Would not do this to my worst enemy ! Talking to machines is stupid ...waiting to talk to a machine is ...beyond description .

This will come to no good end ...for me anyway .

Thank you for helping me kill some time .

[TexasGrunt]

What 'billing are you talking about?

If you signed up for SS the first of April your first check will be a Wednesday in May.

[Boaz]

Part B .

[swheeler]

Medicare part B to be taken out of your SS retirement, yep they are funny, can't ya tell I'm laughing!

[472x1B/A]

Hi, we are from the government, we are here to help.

[Boaz]

Time for thinkin . Need to start pickin up road kill goin into and from town . .

[Hogtamer]

I still work part time and have made over the pitiful small limit ($15 K and change) our govy allows us to make without reducing SS "benefits" as our govy calls our money taken involuntarily from our pay for 45 years, plus an equal amount extracted from our employers. So my montly check was reduced, the "benefit" is taxable income and SS is still withheld from my current wages. This is one of the things I have trouble staying civil about. What an incentive to be productive!

[Boaz]

No relief , said they would call me back . ..................Yea . LOL

[runfiverun]

If you owe them money they will call you right back.

[rca]

[QUOTE=Hogtamer;4010704]I still work part time and have made over the pitiful small limit ($15 K and change) our govy allows us to make without reducing SS "benefits" as our govy calls our money taken involuntarily from our pay for 45 years, plus an equal amount extracted from our employers. So my montly check was reduced, the "benefit" is taxable income and SS is still withheld from my current wages. This is one of the things I have trouble staying civil about. What an incentive to be productive![/QUOTE

Did you take early retirement?
I waited till full retiremen age and still work No reduction in benefits ,I have had 2 (two) increases in my monthly payment

[10-x]

Boaz, try calling any big service business these days, endless bs recordings telling one every dam thing but what one is calling for! Talking about POed KING SIZE, I absolute Hate comcast xfinity! Not calling the Fools any more, going to local office and talk to the lady there, she is A. Ok. Sick and tired of trying to understand someone from india, yea, they are either " push starts"( red dot on forhead) or " pull starts"( turban) and have yet to find one I can hear and understand. 4.2 mortar in RVN ruined my hearing...
As for dealing with SSI, try doing it for your Mother who has alzhiemers and can not say anything, did it for almost 15 years! A bunch of pin heads.......

[GhostHawk]

I turn 65 in Oct. Been getting small SS check for 3 years now. I was unable to work, why not?

My wife and I will have some hard choices to make when I sign up.

Myself I think I will do without as many "parts" as possible.

There is no easy solution. Medical is a shell game that is rigged by the insurance company's.
And you are dammed if you do, and dammed if you don't. So pick your poison.

They are dang good salesmen, and they know how to push the product and scare people.

Dollar is worth less every day and the inflation on medical costs has been skyrocketing for 15 years. Leaves most of us up the smelly creek without a paddle.

[FISH4BUGS]

I am 68 and still work full time (and then some). I am self-employed and have been for 35 years. I am collecting on my ex-wife's SS who is also self-employed. (Boy does that frost her butt to know I am collecting on her SS)
She made a boatload more money than I did, so I really have no complaints about SS.
Someone complained about the money paid in and the employer's contribution also. Try paying the whole thing yourself for 35 years.

[farmerjim]

" plus an equal amount extracted from our employers"
"Try paying the whole thing yourself for 35 years."
You do pay the entire amount. Your employer has to consider all costs when they hire you. If they didn't have to pay your SS, they would pay you more salary. Ask anyone who runs a business and hires people.

[Virginia John]

Our SS was increased by 0.3% this year and MEDICARE increased 0.3%. This is a no win situation.

[BrassMagnet]

" plus an equal amount extracted from our employers"
"Try paying the whole thing yourself for 35 years."
You do pay the entire amount. Your employer has to consider all costs when they hire you. If they didn't have to pay your SS, they would pay you more salary. Ask anyone who runs a business and hires people.

Well said!

[Geezer in NH]

If the bill is for medicare it is for 3 months not like it read to me either. I do not qualify for SS but due for medicare and their is no choice get it or none other available

[Preacher Jim]

welcome to social insecurity and we got you and you can not do anything about it

[reddog81]

With the wait time of an hour a speaker phone works wonders. Turn the speaker phone on, turn the volume all the way up and just make sure you stay within ear shot of the phone and you'll be fine.

[Nueces]

A speaker phone works well, unless the hold message is a series of loud, chatty blather in different voices, that make you think a drone person has picked up...