So how much do you really expect to draw from SS when retired?

Being as I have a decade and a half to go before I get mine, I'm thinking that I'll be getting about 1/2 to 2/3 of what my statement says I will get. I say this because Congress won't fix the SS issue and I assess that there will be a time when they send everyone a letter and explain why they aren't going to get the full amount promised.

PACEDOG#1 wrote:Being as I have a decade and a half to go before I get mine, I'm thinking that I'll be getting about 1/2 to 2/3 of what my statement says I will get. I say this because Congress won't fix the SS issue and I assess that there will be a time when they send everyone a letter and explain why they aren't going to get the full amount promised.

I pity the poor fool who has to wait a decade and a half. I started getting mine two years ago and I don't expect to be getting anything in a decade and a half.

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ZVUGKTUBM wrote:

The best thing any Boomer can do is to get themselves out of debt. I am already there, and I have told the wife we are staying debt-free from here on out.

Unfortunately, you and I do have one debt. Which of course is the $52,000 per capita we now all have in federal debt.
So at this point, you and your wife have a debt of $104,000 and I have a debt of $52,000. And of course that's the debt you've incurred right now.
Who knows what that figure will be in the future.

But Sal and Paul Krugman say that debt is nothing to worry about. That it's just a bunch of phony baloney right-wing bullshit which means nothing.
Lord knows I hope and pray deep down in my soul they're right.
Since merkel says I'm a "far-left liberal progressive" I should have no problem believing what these fellow far-left liberal progressives are saying.
But somehow my far-left liberal progressive genes are still having trouble with it. lol

Sounds like you need to have enough saved up to pay your fair share or be more vocal in your arguments against government spending.

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I have been drawing for about 5 years. They paid what I figured on. I think I have received 2 small raises in the last 5 years so I would have to say 105% of what I thought I would receive on a monthly basis. Looks like I might get back what I put in, then some. All is good........ The check is in the mail on the other little debt.

Ven I retired from the SS I vas a Schartzvenstein-Ober Fuerher in charge of twelve companies of SS blitzkriegers. I vas lucky to get zee hell out of Chermany with both off meine buttocks still in place. Ya, it vas rough but I made it to Venezuela and dem sheiste venz schwaerzer jews never caugth me.
I been livin' on tortillas for sixty years.

0... I never expected it back. In fact... I think the govt will confiscate more that I would like to leave my family.

I will die working.

they say im supposed to get a pretty good chunk. I don't believe them.

im loaded down with personal ins because all I really am is a slave that needs to be insured when it cant produce anymore.