SSI

[Doofy]

My metal SS card has an Eagle with an American Flag on both sides of it, and now I see you can purchase these metal SS cards online for about $10.

KC

Online is really where you want your number!

 

[grsthegreat]

like i would give my number out to anyone online ......i would have 300 credit cards being issued within hours. i still know my SS# by heart. its amazing what a person can remember. i have no idea what my trucks license plate number is

 

[Doofy]

Phishing scams are getting hard to recognize. I never open anything any more that I don't initiate. Scammers are getting slicker.

 

[MF RED in MT]

Online is really where you want your number!

Oh ya, that was really weird to see.

KC

 

[Doofy]

Oh ya, that was really weird to see.

KC

Gullible people will bite often enough to keep the scammers interested.

 

[mjarrels]

like pulling teeth but it looks like I got it finally, online. should get ss in my account any day now. really pays off to wait until age 66. my amount is about $400 plus a month over age 62, now I just need to live for another 8 or 10 years. should get $1614 a month. Between navy retirement, va disability and ss, almost making more per money per month than I every did working. next goal is to work getting a small retirement from working three and half years at kawneer when it was a union shop before closing and bought out by acola. might be good for $40 or $40 a month.

mark

 

[Diggin It]

really pays off to wait until age 66. my amount is about $400 plus a month over age 62,

I'll have to disagree there. Based on that number you would have been getting about $1K/mo so you missed out on about $48K over the last 4 years. That's an amount most people won't be able to recover unless they live into their 80s or 90s.

But it's a personal decision.

 

[airbiscuit]

The lines still cross at about age 78.

 

[Diggin It]

SS increase for next year announced ... 1.3%

Not much, but some were saying there wouldn't be any increase at all.

 

[oosik]

I started getting SS at 62. It was so very easy - it was almost a joke. They made a copy of my birth certificate - filled out a one page form - done.

One could only hope other government operations would go so smoothly.

 

[grsthegreat]

i took mine this year, and only issue i had was needing to get a replacement SS card because my wife laminated my old one, and they would not accept that. other than that, was easy. one thing is nice is i dont need SS to survive. i feel sorry for some friends of mine that never saved up anything...always had to have a new toy.

 

[Diggin It]

I did it all on the web. No office visits, no presenting documents or proof of anything. Filled out a web form, got approved in minutes. ChaChings started a couple of months later.

 

[Doofy]

I did it all on the web. No office visits, no presenting documents or proof of anything. Filled out a web form, got approved in minutes. ChaChings started a couple of months later.

Same here. Easy.

 

[grsthegreat]

My ssi card lamination started because of the star card. I was taking care of that at same time. Had to get a new card for star card, so applied fir ss at same time.