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ORIGINAL: SpiritedRadiance

The "friend" with Bi polar, She baby sits under the table in the area....

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A "friend" is bi polar, She is to unstable to work she receives from ssi 1690 a month, her mother to care for her because she cant work receives 1690, a month, and she receives 1245 a month for her baby.

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ORIGINAL: tazzygirl

All i have seen you say is you were "conflicted".

As others have pointed out, someone can be legally or medically disabled but still be able to work.

One can be legally blind without being totally blind.

You did your part, you reported the fact. It could be they ignored you, it could be they have facts you dont have.

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ORIGINAL: willbeurdaddy

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ORIGINAL: DarkSteven

This would be completely unacceptable in private enterprise. 

Incorrect. Retirement age is being raised in hundreds of private retirement plans. Currently it is only from early retirement to age 65, but 65 will move up before too long.

Raising SS retirement age is totally appropriate, and I dont think it even needs to be protected for those between 40 and 50, maybe even higher. Demographics of the work force are changing. Fewer and fewer people even want to retire at 62 or 65. The retirement age issue would resove itself if SS didnt provide actuarial increases for delayed retirement. Pay the same benefit to an age 70 retiree as an age 66 retiree with the same earnings history and a good portion of the savings of an increase in retirement age would be realized.

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ORIGINAL: SpiritedRadiance

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ORIGINAL: willbeurdaddy

She may be getting payments from a state program but there is no such thing as the parent of a disabled adult getting Social Security payments based on the disability of the child, caregiver or not.

http://www.ssa.gov/dibplan/dqualify10.htm


A child under age 18 may be disabled, but we don't need to consider the child's disability when deciding if he or she qualifies for benefits as your dependent. The child's benefits normally stop at age 18 unless he or she is a full-time student in an elementary or high school (benefits can continue until age 19) or is disabled. For a child with a disability to receive benefits on your record after age 18, the following rules apply:

• The disabling impairment must have started before age 22, and;
  
• He or she must meet the definition of disability for adults.

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ORIGINAL: Nosathro

I do not believe that there is a mandatory retirement age. However much of this debet about Social Security maybe mute. I have read that as of now Social Security is now in the red, meaning more money is leaving the trust then being taken in. This is due to a large number of people taking early retirement. This is due to the high unemployment, older unemployed who have exhausted their unemployment insurance and will due to the age not return to employment are voluntary retiring earlier. They will not receive full Social Security benefits if they retired at the 65 years of age goal. This will last until about 2012 when more money will be going into the trust then leaving it, but in 2015 the trust will return to the red when many of the "baby bommers" hit 65 and again more money will leave the trust then being deposited, this situation the Trustee say will not end and will deplet the trust fund, bankruptying Social Security.[font]

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ORIGINAL: Nosathro

Nope not MSM but CNN, New York Times, USA Today and the Washingtion Times. It was annocued by Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelus.

www.nytimes.com/2010/03/25/business/.../25social.html

www.usatoday.com/.../2010-02-07-social-security-red-retirements_N.htm

www.washingtontimes.com/.../2010/.../social-security-red-first-time-ever/

money.cnn.com/2010/.../social_security.../index.htm



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