Another SS question

[Bigdawg]

https://www.ssa.gov/benefits/retirement/planner/military.html

Special earnings addition if you were in the military.

"From 1957 through 1977, you are credited with $300 in additional earnings for each calendar quarter in which you received active duty basic pay.
From 1978 through 2001, for every $300 in active duty basic pay, you are credited with an additional $100 in earnings up to a maximum of $1,200 a year"

Have any of you military retirees noticed the extra earnings added to your earnings total for your service time? I haven't but I'm currently too young for SS.

 

[braumeister]

Have any of you military retirees noticed the extra earnings added to your earnings total for your service time? I haven't but I'm currently too young for SS.

Yes, I looked at my earnings on the SS website a few years ago and that had been done just as promised.

 

[djsander]

https://www.ssa.gov/benefits/retirement/planner/military.html

Special earnings addition if you were in the military.

"From 1957 through 1977, you are credited with $300 in additional earnings for each calendar quarter in which you received active duty basic pay.
From 1978 through 2001, for every $300 in active duty basic pay, you are credited with an additional $100 in earnings up to a maximum of $1,200 a year"

Have any of you military retirees noticed the extra earnings added to your earnings total for your service time? I haven't but I'm currently too young for SS.

I read that they make the additions when you apply. I’ll see in a couple more years.

 

[Nords]

https://www.ssa.gov/benefits/retirement/planner/military.html

Special earnings addition if you were in the military.

Have any of you military retirees noticed the extra earnings added to your earnings total for your service time? I haven't but I'm currently too young for SS.

As you might suspect, @Bigdawg, I tracked this in the 1980s and 1990s for myself and my (active-duty) spouse.

I did the math on our LESs and W-2s and checked that our SS earnings records showed the additional credits.

In the mid-1990s we were one of the first to contact DFAS and Social Security when my spouse’s earnings (1995? 1996?) showed a zero. That was a couple months before the Navy and SS realized that the Navy had “lost” one of the three nine-track tapes that should have been couriered over to SS for uploading. They caught up with that and SS had the right numbers (with the additional credits) in her earnings record.

Somewhere in the late 1990s, as the program drew to a close, SS started entering the credits automatically. You could check the math on your actual SS earnings record (against your applicable W-2s) in your mySocialSecurity account.

Many many years from now when you finally file for your SS deposits, you can also ask SS to audit your earnings record to verify that they haven’t lost the credits over the years.