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Member Section => Down Range Cafe => Topic started by: bjc1369 on July 29, 2010, 10:23:27 PM
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I recently looked at the Social Security website to see about applying for benefits. They have a section that shows what info will be needed to apply. One question they asked is if I have any dependent children between the ages of 18-19 who live with me and are attending ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. WTF.
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Do they ask what grade YOU are in ?
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Those must be EXTRA special kids. ::)
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Only kid in 5th grade with a Chevy and a Mullet ? ;D
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It's probably a typo mistake.
When you start collecting SS, if you have children that are still in school, they will get a small stipend of SS from your account as well.
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Don't worry... they probably only spent about 800K on a consultant to get that part of the website set up.
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I recently looked at the Social Security website to see about applying for benefits. They have a section that shows what info will be needed to apply. One question they asked is if I have any dependent children between the ages of 18-19 who live with me and are attending ride the short bus to ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. WTF.
There, I fixed it for you.
That question is s'posed to be asked ONLY in the Southern States AND Chicago.
Offered by Crusader, a proud Southerner, who was volleyball champ of third grade for three straight years! ;D ;) ;D
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The SSA gets an "F" in sentence construction, as do most government institutions. But, I'll give SSA a pass on intent. I think what they're asking, having read the instructions is:
Names of unmarried children, under 18 living with you.
Names of unmarried children, 18-19, living with you.
Names of any dependents in secondary school.
Now that's what I gathered from the poorly constructed sentence in the instructions. I haven't actually seen the application itself.
BUT then again, knowing it's a governmental agency, they could mean what BJC said.
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Reminds me of the joke where the guy comes in from school and says, "Hey, Ma, I was changing clothes in PE today and saw I got the biggest 'thingy' in the whole fourth grade!"
Ma says, "Well, Johnny, you should.....after all, you are 17."
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I have a very bitter taste in my mouth regarding SS. My mother died at 60 years old. Being unmarried, with two grown children, the 30+ years she PAID IN to SS, WAS KEPT by the gov't. All that money, STOLEN.
$200 Death Allotment. That's it, that's all. Bastards.
If I take a handgun and point it at a man outside the grocery store, and rob him of his money, I GOTO PRISON, the gov't,....kept my mothers hard earned SS "contributions" and told my sister and I to F OFF....
One less "winner" in the SS scheme.
"F" them!!!! They demonized Bush for taxpayers wanting to choose to designate their own SS contributions,.....BUT NO!!!! The Feds, keep it, and screw the families, and individuals that earned it.
One aspect of of this Gov't regardless of party, that is Bullsh**.
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Dude, Johnson stole all the money back in the 60's.
That was what funded Welfare
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Chill out folks! This question i geared to determine if children are eligible for bennies. Normally children get monthly bennies if they are under 18. They can get bennies up to 21 if they are full time college students. Apparently the law was amended to include kids over 18 who have not yet graduated high school. Apparently a few brats remain in HS a few months after reaching 18 based on when they were born and when they graduate, they might be 18 a month or two before graduating and should get bennies until they are out of High School just like their class mates not yet 18.
SSA law is complex and constantly changing mostly based on legal challenges and Congressional Hijinks.