wtnhunt Posted February 15, 2005 Report Share Posted February 15, 2005 Re: Social Security [ QUOTE ] Someone posted something on here about someone's widow drawing her dead husbands Social Security and she had no right. [/ QUOTE ] Well, I believe that might have been none other than myself. I have to enlighten you here sluggo. This particular person I was referring to just happens to be my wifes stepfathers mother. Her husband passed away, she had 3 kids at that time. She should have kept drawing while the kids were school age, and then when they left home or were no longer in school her benefits should have ended and her gotten a job while she was still physically able to just like any other American citizen normally does. What happened, she never went to work. 2 of her 3 kids are living with her now with incomes. She is still drawing and never quit drawing. Talk about screwedup, she drew more than her husband ever even paid in. You wonder why the system is in the hole when the ss administration allows crap like this to happen. What floored me, she drew a back pay check about 8 or 9 years ago where she had been being underpaid due to increase in the amount of the benefits over the years and she got like a 30 grand check. I remind you she herself never paid a dime. Her husband passed at a fairly young age. An age where she being like 8 years younger than him, she was still plenty young enough to have gotten out and gotten a job, but instead she has lived of the system, us TAXPAYERS. She not only has been drawing SS, but has been on freaking welfare and food stamps the entire time too, and gets state funded insurance, and medicaid to boot. It angers me to no end thinking about it. Her household income with her children living there, I know that they should not qualify, but somehow she still gets all her benefits we are paying for. There are those out there with absolutely no motivation to get off their rumps and quit living off what the government is giving them and why in the heck would they even want to. Look at the motivation they have to be welfare bums. Sit on your rump, dont worry the democrat lawmakers will make sure you are taken care of . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slugshooter Posted February 16, 2005 Report Share Posted February 16, 2005 Re: Social Security I agree in your situation there wtn, there is no excuse for her to draw since she is young enough or was, to go back to work, she is just worthless and lazy, but, she is entitled, Bill Gates is entitled, and you and I are entitled. In order to decide who is and who is not eligible would require enormous legislation that probably wouldn't pass. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wtnhunt Posted February 16, 2005 Report Share Posted February 16, 2005 Re: Social Security You know it really is terrible how the system allows people like this to get away with this type of thing. I mean a woman in her late 40's to early 50's should have had no problem finding work and could have paid in for her own SS, but instead in this situation she kept on getting benefits. I really dont know how,but the governemnt in a sense encourages people to not achieve in supporting them like they did her. Of course now she is in not a well enough state of health to work and it is too late, but how many tens of thousands are blown on one individual like this? Can you imagine multiplying that times all those similar cases you know are out there. SS reform in my opinion really needs to take a good hard look at getting those who are cheating the system off the system, and those who are caught should have to payback retribution with interest. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest IADEERDUDE Posted February 21, 2005 Report Share Posted February 21, 2005 Re: Social Security i look at it this way im 30 years old and i never planned on ever seeing any ss so ive been loading up the ipers benifits and playing in with the mutual funds and right now they are making some pretty good change so if they do offer that im in because its almost what im doing now Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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