Fosz- No, the republican party wants you to save some money and not depend on everyone else to pay for you in retirement. SSA was never designed to take care of all your needs after you retire. It was designed to suppliment your other forms of retiement income.

Weston neglects to mention that if your checks are limited due to the annual earnings test (AET), you will receive a "credit" of those lost monthly payments upon reaching full retirement age. It's called ARFING which means Adjusting Reduction Factors.  SSA does this automatically. So if you retire early, and they hold ...more

5 thumbs down for pointing out you have it much easier than those protecting your freedoms. This is why this country has taken a crap. Nobody has any pride in what they do anymore, if they do anything other than blog and play video games. It's very sad.

Instead of complaining, go to work and do your job. For those of you having an issue with that concept, think about this; After you stuff your face with family members you will be going to talk with and help people in a nice heated building. At that very moment, a service member in Iraq or Afghanistan will be 1000's of...more

In addition to my previous comment, I would like to add to those of you sick about "immigrants" getting Social Security, put away your airsick bags. The only way an "immigrant" can rcv SS is if they are insured with enough credits ( that means they worked and paid into the system) and they have proof they are here lega...more

After reading many comments on several articles about Social Security, it is clear that many people have NO IDEA how the program works. In fact, the misinformation would be funny if it weren't so irresponsible. I am a front line SSA employee and I'd like to clear up a few issues in some of the comments on this thread. ...more