[FITZ]

millions of Mexicans working in the United States to collect U.S. Social Security benefits in Mexico after as little as 18 months in the United States, instead of the current 10 years.

I wouldn't mind them raising the retirement age to 70 so that Americans would have to work 50 years before collecting Social Security ----- but instead they intend to turn around and give our Social Security money to people who worked in the US illegally for 18 months and never paid a dime in? Something is wrong with that. Plus making Americans pay taxes on the money they get back but they put in in the first place.

[FITZ]

bump ---- don't plan on retiring anytime soon --- not if you were counting on receiving Social Security. It's going south.

[FierceDraka]

NO!

[FITZ]

I don't think anyone is trying to stop a massive invasion from the south ---- they're planning to give our Social Security now to anyone who can come up with a stolen social security number and claim they once used it here or worked illegal for cash for a few months. Why wouldn't millions of people not want to get in on that? A month's Social Security is more money than many make in one year in Mexico.

[just mimi]

This has happened in cases in which an undocumented immigrant uses a relative's Social Security card to obtain work and then gets some of his wages deducted for Social Security purposes.

In one case, a Mexican man who used his father's Social Security number for nine years in the 1970s claimed after becoming a legal resident in 1989 that he was owed benefits. He began collecting benefits in 1999.

And a Mexican woman who worked illegally under an invalid Social Security number for six years in the 1990s later petitioned for credit. She began receiving disability benefits in 1999.

Aside from the illegality of their immigration status when paying social security taxes which apparently doesn't matter when attempting to collect benefits, isn't using someone else's social security number some type of fraud?

I might have to stop reading this crap or I will go completely insane.

[4.1O dana super trac pak]

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[4.1O dana super trac pak]

Immigration ping.

Grrrrrr.......

[Klickitat]

18 months. I don't think Americans are eligible for SS after only 18 months. That's 18 months at minimum wage too, most likely. What does that work out to? They'd have to pay in what, $500 bucks if that, for a lifetime of checks? Plus with the direct deposit into accounts in Mexico don't be suprised when the average lifespan of a Mexican receiving SS benefits shoots up to over 100 years. In fact, most of them will probably never die.

[duckandcover]

Keep electing Liberal Democrats and you'll keep getting liberal democratic ideas.