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Originally Posted by dtbach
Does anyone know if this is automatic or if you need to show SS your DD214? Also someone told me you get an extra $100 month but it appears to me that you just get an extra $1200/year bonus on earnings that your benefit is calculated by.
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This zombie press release gets exhumed every few years and lurches across the Internet for a few months. This is about the 40th time I've seen it on social media in the last two weeks alone.
People who were in the military in 1967 are already receiving Social Security (if they're eligible), so they don't have to worry about the credits.
I remember tracking the military credits in the 1980s and 1990s, but around 1996 the Social Security Administration integrated DFAS's data archives and updated everyone's SS earnings records to reflect their years of military credits.
Vets who are concerned about this can check by comparing their old military W-2s against their SS earnings record.
You're absolutely right that it's a credit to our earnings records, not our disbursements. Adding a $100/month credit to our SS earnings record will only add a few bucks to our monthly SS deposits.
Vets could take their DD-214s to the Social Security office if they want, and a few of the younger civil servants there might marvel at the paper, but it's not necessary.