What benefits do you receive

[W2R]

For me, there are limits to what I would feel comfortable in doing to receive public assistance by 'finessing my income'. Leave those benefits to those who actually need them.

+1

 

[Car-Guy]

What may be of help in lighting a fire under the right butt is contacting your congresscritter's office. They have entire staffs whose sole job is to keep a Rolodex (or the functional digital equivalent) of people in government who will

A. Answer the telephone.

and

B. Know what they're talking about.

That's another good idea. I may try that if my current issue isn't resolved soon. (I just made a SS office visit last week and hand delivered my newest paper work documenting "their" mistakes and explaining it to an agent, who of course isn't empowered to make the "ruling".) Fortunately, I don't need the money and I won't miss the few months of payments they plan to withhold (I'm sure I'll get it back later anyway when this is resolved). What about the folks that really depend and/or live on these payments. What are they suppose to do. Not eat or pay their bills for a few months!

 

[nate2953]

Car-Guy, what was the issue if you don't mind sharing?


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[Car-Guy]

Car-Guy, what was the issue if you don't mind sharing?


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Without going into too much detail, it has to do with how deferred income is treated differently between the IRS and SS.

 

[sengsational]

When my company retired everyone over 55 years old, I was able to draw unemployment benefits for almost 2 years. We were allowed to purchase MegaCompany's Cadillac insurance coverage until age 65--most of which was paid out of a Retiree health savings account.

I thought companies were not allowed to shed employees by age. I recall that when my megacorp did a headcount cut, they published data showing an even distibution against the existing employee population.