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Thread #122219 Message #2681865
Posted By: Art Thieme
16-Jul-09 - 09:31 PM
Thread Name: BS: Nationalized Healthcare, good? bad?
Subject: RE: BS: Nationalized Healthcare, good? bad?
To clarify what we can discern from Social Security:
In order for a worker to get SS, they must have worked enough units of time. Those units are called QUARTERS.
My wife did not work enough of those quarters to get SS when she reaches 62. Also, we've been told that because of too few quarters --she can't EVER get it. Not SSI either. --But my income is too high for her to get on SSI----even with our Pub. Aid spend-down amount each month assuring that we are "broke" enough to get the Public Aid card.
There are at least two Catch Twenty-Twos there for ya --- all in one sentence I think.
When I die, Carol will get some percentage of my SS payments---and $300.00
Art