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....so called Social Security.....
pwillie
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...I got a 2% raise! Yeah!!!!!.....but my new payout is 79.00 less....medicare supplement has gone up!
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Minimum wage dictates the minimum old age benefit. The minimum wage is $200 a month, max benefit is %80 or $160 per month, plus insurance.
The best plan is the U.S.A. plan,, go to the U.S. illegally, work and send money home. Buy houses and start a business,, ask your kids to help with any shortfall,, the only way they can help is go the the U.S.A. and the cycle continues,, forever,,?
The U.S. might be the only country in the world that allows unlimited money to be sent overseas.
I had tried the bank first but they told me the SS wouldn't let them do it anymore.
The U.S. might be the only country in the world that allows unlimited money to be sent overseas.
Here is an interesting map which shows where and how much money (officially called remittances) goes to specific countries.
http://labs.time.com/story/where-immigrants-send-the-most-money-home/
Because "wire services" like Western Union take a cut as a "service fee", I have often delivered cash to the friends and families of Bulgarians living and working in the United States. Moving money around the world is big business with nearly $10 billion in service fees going to US financial services every year. That is virtually free money, so they lobby Congress hard to keep that money flowing out of the United States.
Money transfers are a racket good business. Exchange rates can be anything the sender decides,, within reason and fees paid by sender the same.
Google ?chained CPI? for the difficult facts.
If the current tax proposal goes through, you can kiss meaningful COLA increases goodbye forever.
Google ?chained CPI? for the difficult facts.
Good.