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I'm not sure just how SS benefits are calculated. From what I've seen SS retirees seem to get about half of what they earned while working. I know it's a lot less than STRS retirees get, and it's because the State of California doesn't spend the retirement fund on other things. Maybe you can justify welfare payments to the disabled, but why does it have to come from SS? That was supposed to have been a retirement fund for seniors.My mother, who never paid into SS, got the munificent sum of $450 a month from SS. If my Dad had gotten 90% of his working salary from SS, the way I do from STRS, they wouldn't have needed that money. As it was, they were living on about $2,000 a month. Without having other sources of income, that would have been rather difficult.
I'm not sure just how SS benefits are calculated. From what I've seen SS retirees seem to get about half of what they earned while working. I know it's a lot less than STRS retirees get, and it's because the State of California doesn't spend the retirement fund on other things.
Maybe you can justify welfare payments to the disabled, but why does it have to come from SS? That was supposed to have been a retirement fund for seniors.
My mother, who never paid into SS, got the munificent sum of $450 a month from SS. If my Dad had gotten 90% of his working salary from SS, the way I do from STRS, they wouldn't have needed that money. As it was, they were living on about $2,000 a month. Without having other sources of income, that would have been rather difficult.
