http://www.joetaxpayer.com/social-security-benefits/ Financial Commentary For The Average Joe Mon, 06 Feb 2012 21:56:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.joetaxpayer.com/social-security-benefits/comment-page-1/#comment-30003 Carol Smith Sun, 10 Jul 2011 18:20:40 +0000 http://www.blog.joetaxpayer.com/?p=150#comment-30003 Suggestion for cuts in SS: Like teachers, if you do not put in to Social Security, you should not be able to collect from Social Security, including your spouse's benefits, unless they are able to show some strong bottom level financial need. It infuriates me that my husband's benefits, if he were to die before me, would go to someone who chose not to go to work and may have more financial resources (much more from many I have seen) than myself. It should be fair across the board: No money in, no money out! OR, we should ALL receive our spouse's benefits that could have been put in a family savings account instead. It seems we would save a lot for those who really need it if we were to change this policy. Suggestion for cuts in SS: Like teachers, if you do not put in to Social Security, you should not be able to collect from Social Security, including your spouse’s benefits, unless they are able to show some strong bottom level financial need. It infuriates me that my husband’s benefits, if he were to die before me, would go to someone who chose not to go to work and may have more financial resources (much more from many I have seen) than myself. It should be fair across the board: No money in, no money out! OR, we should ALL receive our spouse’s benefits that could have been put in a family savings account instead. It seems we would save a lot for those who really need it if we were to change this policy.

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