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Social Security stimulus payment for 2010 2 years 11 weeks ago

Social Security recipients are waiting for a stimulus payment that is scheduled to begin shortly. As Social Security benefits did not increase this year, many who are receiving disability benefits, retirement benefits or survivor benefits will be happy to have this one time payment.

Homelessness and Death Caused by the Social Security Disability Backlog 2 years 18 weeks ago

To say obtaining Social Security disability is difficult is an understatement. Tragically, 60% of initial Social Security disability applications are denied. At the next level of appeal, the denial rates are even higher. Consequently, if you are disabled and you need Social Security disability, it is very important to do your homework. To learn more about the Social Security disability system and how it works, read more...

Privatizing Social Security 1 year 37 weeks ago

As I watch the government trying to gain more and more control of private businesses, I began thinking of Social Security. I see how well the government has run that and wonder why people want to see us become a Socialist country.

How Raising The Retirement Age Screws the Poor | Mother Jones 1 year 1 week ago

I've never been a fan of raising the Social Security retirement age. It's a blunt instrument mainly favored by journalists and policymakers who don't plan to retire at age 65 anyway and figure that asking people to work a little bit longer than they used to is no big deal. But people who don't have white collar jobs quite plainly don't feel the same way about it, as the skyrocketing number of people who retire early at age 62 demonstrates.

Getting a Social Security Card as a US immigrant and non US citizen 50 weeks 3 days ago

In this post I thought I would talk about my experience of getting a social security card as a US immigrant and non US citizen, once I had arrived in the USA on my K1 Fiance Visa. After all my troubles with trying to open a non US citizen bank account, I will not pretend that I was not a little nervous about trying to jump another bureaucratic hurdle. But a US Social Security Card is essential in America for many things: the social security card itself can be used as proof of ID, plus you need the Social Security Number (SSN) that comes with it too.