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jwirr

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6. I am on SSI and when I need to talk to someone about it I call the Social Security Administration.

Reply to freshwest (Reply #5)

Wed Jan 28, 2015, 11:09 PM

Jan 2015

They administer it and I don't think the state has anything to do with it. I have never had contact with a state agency.

Their attack on SS and SSDI is because they want to privatize them and get the money into the stock market. SSI is tax funded and does not have money set aside. That is my guess as to why they haven't touched it yet - no money to make them richer.

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What's the Current GOP manufactured debt Crisis? Social Security Reform [View all] M Kitt Jan 2015 OP

Are you referring to SSI or SSDI? They are different. jwirr Jan 2015 #1

Thanks JWIRR. Legitimate point, the attached link for Bernie S. does address this issue ;-) M Kitt Jan 2015 #2

What I have been reading about is SSDI and that is actually paid out of the SSA funding. SSI is tax jwirr Jan 2015 #3

You mean SSI? They go after it in the state legislatures and try to circumvent federal rules. freshwest Jan 2015 #5

I am on SSI and when I need to talk to someone about it I call the Social Security Administration. jwirr Jan 2015 #6

Are you are SSDI or SSI? The latter is state welfare, not federally administered. SSDI is federal. freshwest Jan 2015 #7

Some states have an SSI program but there is also a federal one. Here in MN we have a SSI jwirr Jan 2015 #8

See my edit, I am unfamiliar with what you are talking about. I think you are talking about SSDI on freshwest Jan 2015 #9

A link that may clarify things for both of us and other readers: freshwest Jan 2015 #10

That is it. I did not know that some states are in charge of it. That would be terrible. Especially jwirr Jan 2015 #11

Yep, as replied to. M Kitt Jan 2015 #4

Excellent OPs. I wish I'd seen them then. Our state had its openly named 'Starve the Beast' company freshwest Jan 2015 #12

Freshwest, thanks for the reply and support regarding Soc. Security funding breakdown. M Kitt Jan 2015 #13