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Remember, son, many a good story has been ruined by over verification - James Gordon Bennett
US Social Security allows online applications
THE US SOCIAL SECURITY Administration is so concerned that it will be run off its feet with the coming eligibility of 80 million baby boomers for benefits that it is allowing them to fill in the form online.
Social Security Commissioner Michael J Astrue said the agency was completely overhauling its electronic services.
This was partly because baby boomers were more IT literate, but mostly because it was a little cheaper and quicker than having a queue of 80 million people lined up at your office. The department didn't have the infrastructure to handle that workload in the traditional fashion.
Besides a lot of the baby boomers are a wee bit bigger than they used to be so it is probably better to keep them in front of their televisions and couches than taking up space in the office, he failed to mention.
If a punter goes to a Social Security office it takes them 45 minutes consulting with a field officer, online it takes about 15 minutes and no member of staff is involved. µ
L'Inq
AP
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...like a charm. Online app leads one to believe he/she will get a call from a live person to schedule an in-house interview, but it never happened. Received notice in the mail it had been accepted.
... this is old news, very old news and not news at all really.
The process works to perfection and even advises you when you have entered "impossible" information such as conflicting dates.
The Social Security offices have always been lifeless, the Govern-ment just finally organized and automated it. And did a bang-up job too.
sOCIAL sECURITY WILL PAY OFF, IF YOU WORKED ($1,000 min)EVERY QUARTER FOR 16 QUARTERs OR 4 YEARS, in social security paid in employment. ANYTHING OLDER IS NOT INCLUDED. WAITING EVEN FEW DAYS COULD COMPLETELY DISQUALIFY YOU (Lost last quarters eligibility).Having to start ALL Over, for 16 more quarters. sOMETIMES ssa OFFICE WILL SUDDENLY CHANGE TO irs OFFICE & WORKERS STATE:THAT SHOULD TELL YOU SOMETHING.
Finally, if your 62, you can quit & report in that day & recieve 3/4 of pension, just 4 years earlier than full retirement would have paid. It can be scam of paid in monies with absolutely NO Returns Possible, with wrong idea how it works. Don't Twiddle YOUR rEtIREMENT AWAY BY aNY dELAY IN aPPLICATION.
Had a little trouble filling out the forms did you?
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......the more surprised I am that they have survived for this long.
What's going to happen when the pyramid / ponzi scheme that is SS blows up finally? Gee, I dunno, maybe screw those who have paid into it and won't get a nickel out of it?
HB