Federal benefits? It’s OUR money.
Wow. A whole 6 bucks. And since 2012 my disability went down 35 bucks.
Well my husband is getting a $41 raise!!
It’s OUR money.”
I get so tired of hearing that SS recipients are “living large off the government”. I paid into SS beginning in 1955 and since I have had my own business since 1985, still do but pay both sides of the freight.
“Federal benefits? It’s OUR money.”
Technically all federal benefits come out of “our” money. Social Security’s structure was changed from individual accounts to a tax long ago. You have no rights to any certain amount based on what you paid in, and you have no “account” with the feds. You get whatever the govt decides you will get.
Social Security is just another wealth redistribution scheme now. Lower income people get a larger benefit percentage payout than those who paid in much more.
FIFY.