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So if someone claimed to belong to such a group and did all the documentation, I wonder if they have to periodically recertify? Or, can a person just be Amish-for-a-day, get out of social security, and then continue to worship and adhere to the tenets of the religion in a more private, personal way for the next 40 years (I mean, in such a way that he wouldn't actually attend services or keep in touch with the rest of the flock).
If you contribute to SS for 40 quarters and then get religion for 30 years, do they reduce your SS check under some type of WEP-like proviso for the religiously observant?
Why do I learn of every loophole too late to use it?
I don't think you can evade SS that way, by claiming to be an isolated Amish.
The Amish are a true self-sufficient group. When one needs to go to the hospital, they would pitch in to pay for their members in need. So, they are truly self-insured and do not pose a drain on the SS and Medicare.
I cannot be an Amish though, not just on religion ground but because of their way of life and culture. They rejected electricity and I am an electronic/electrical engineer. Duh! I am also too old to learn High German. Heck, I cannot even learn any German.
Without electricity, lighting is tough, but their women do have kitchen appliances to help them. They have cloth washers and even bread dough mixers that run on compressed air! I still don't see how one can run a CPU by a mechanical means without converting to electricity. So, no Web surfing, no Internet, no ER forum BS'ing. Exactly the things that the Amish consider anathema!
Think about it, Samclem. Would you rather pay the SS tax so you can post here?