10-06-2010, 09:02 PM
Dakota wrote:
[quote=$tevie]
How do the elderly get money? You can't collect Social Security unless you've been paying into it for a certain amount of quarters.
One word. SSI. Claim poverty/disability and you are in. Every grandma/grandpa I know is on it. It is a great retirement package for the world.
Getting a bit off topic here, but: :agree:
SSI:
"Supplemental Security Income (SSI) is a Federal income supplement program funded by general tax revenues (not Social Security taxes):
- It is designed to help aged, blind, and disabled people, who have little or no income; and
- It provides cash to meet basic needs for food, clothing, and shelter.
In other words: FREE money!!
One of my grandparents' greatest gripes was that they had paid into the system since its inception in the mid-1930s, yet their in-laws who moved here in the 1970s got nearly as much as they did (after signing over all of their assets to their children, thus becoming "poor" and eligible for all sorts of goodies)...