2017 Social Security Administration Financial Adjustments

I totally agree, sometimes I believe I am living in a dream but then I realized it's not a dream, it's a nightmare. I have always been very independent but when I had to stop working due to my health it seems like all hell broke loose, I know in my heart and soul that I am eligible for disability benefits, but have been denied a few times, I will not give up until I get what I have worked for, it's not there money, it's mine and I really need it.

If u worked alot in Ur past then u get paid. The money is urs. From every check u earned. Ssa isn't a loan or easy way out.. Its what u have already put in. So to ask for more, n from areas that have nothing to do with u n money, seems greedy. I ain't rich but I worked since I was 15. 1983 was the only year I didn't work. I certainly didn't set aside money in the event I became disabled n unable to work. But SSA did for me n I'm so dam gratefull. In a way I am very rich. I'm not gonna push the agencies, other businesses in the world, to give me money just cuz they have more than I !!

So true

Ronald, while I understand your frustration please understand that Social Security Benefits come from monies deducted from each of your paychecks that you get paid throughout the course of your lifetime. In other words these funds come from money you paid. Whether you start collecting Social Security payments when you retire at age set by SS administration or you collect them at an earlier age due to a work related injury this is your money you are getting back. Granted the Social Security system is in dire straits now from what I have heard and read in the news because in my opinion the powers to be didn't plan for the future and elected to use " borrow " money from these funds and not replacing it. These funds were taken from each working person who by the way were not given a choice. These SS "taxes" belong to each and every person who is or has worked during their life.
So please don't speak of these retirement or disability checks as if they were a gift or handout from the Government, because it simply isn't true.

Sharing my opinion,
Glen- Disabled Firefighter.

I totally agree with you Robert. It's time we the people of America should take back our government and all the money that we've been ripped off for. My prayers are with you and I got your back covered brother.

Our son is terminally ill. My ex got herself a low paying job taking care of our son. Since she stays in the house taking care of our son she apply as a 'home-care person'. She takes care of our son, the 'Home Care Office' gets paid, my ex-wife gets paid. Everyone is one step happier.

In WA state its called copes. I know because a guy married a Koran along came mama son who is 65 starts drawing your social security copes pays the daughter 1500 per month to take her shopping 8 hrs a day 5 days a week. Look into it your state prolly has similar

hi, i was wondering about the $700 deduction? The same thing happened to me today. why in the world would they take 90% of my check? Is it even legal?? Please help ...

If you have a really bad case of carpal tunnel it means you can't use your hands to work and the pain cab be incredibly bad and so can the numbness. It can also vary a bit from day to day. I know someone who has it in both hands, has tried everything, even surgery, but had to quit working because of it. She was working after retirement at her son's office to earn a little extra $ to live on but finally she couldn't even do that and even surgery couldn't fix the problem. You can't SEE pain, numbness, or nerve damage but that doesn't mean it isn't there. You can't see PTSD but it is real and can wreck your life. Around 70% of disabilities are NOT easily seen so I see why you made the common mistake of thinking most people on disability are freeloaders but you are SO wrong. It is a LOT harder to get disability benefits from the government than from companies. I think the fraud rate for companies is about 2 or 3 times the rate is for people on government disability.
No one LIKES to admit that they are disabled and can't work anymore because a lot of times people treat you as if you are lazy or stealing their money even though you paid into the same Social Security Disability Insurance fund that they pay into. It canbe really bad and depressing to have people treat you like scum and have to relive what gave you PTSD (or whatever) every time you need to apply or renew benefits, apply for housing, home health, food stamps, etc. made me suicidal more than once. Funny thing is that now I'm stuck in a wheelchair, angry people have suddenly changed to really nice people.
Please be a nice person and remember the ultra-rich people are the ones who have been gradually siphoning more and more $ out of the economy since Reagan's time while benefits keep getting cut or made almost impossible to get and to keep.
Takes around 1.5 to 2 YEARS to get an easy-to-prove SSI or SSDI case approved because of that. The right-wing politicians and rich people try to blame us poor and disabled while they steal an unfair share of money that should go to the working class and a smaller and also to the retired working and to those who can't work anymore or just plain can't work to begin with.
Trump is just obvious about taking money from the poor. No other developed country has so much money going to the rich and ultra rich and so little to EVERYONE else, especially people who work for a living. It's the Koch brothers and the uncaring ultra-rich who've "bought" almost all of our Congressional representatives or paid for enough media to convince us to elect their greedy millionaire or billionaire buddies to Congress. The only people in Congress who AREN'T helping the ultra-rich get MORE tax cuts that give them more of the profits that USED to go to the middle class are people like LLOYD Doggett and Bernie Sanders. Bernie Sanders used to be a social worker, saw how bad things were, and as a politician saw how together people who own all the radio stations were helping people who could only seem to think of $ and possessions get more and more and more. He's not a radical who wants to make those rich people poor but he's a "radical because he wants us to change things so the working class gets closer to the same PERCENTAGE of the US economy's income. Like when Trump says America was great. It wasn't great because of racism and hate of even the disabled but because the middle class got their fair share of the profits and the people running the companies didn't seem to think that it was ok to cut workers' pay and give it to themselves just because they had the power to do that. Nowadays they do think that because they're the "me" generation and that their main goal in life is to keep getting jobs that pay more and better jobs that pay even more and so on . They weren't taught civics in school or the importance of everyone getting a fair share of economic growth like we used to be ties and that everyone is a person of value that God made in his own image and is therefore to be treated decently . Most of them don't even really believe in a God at all so they have no thing in their brain that tells them stop you're being greedy they think they're doing the right thing even though they're very very very wrong . Please don't blame innocent disabled people for what those people have done disabled and the poor people don't even have the power to get there Congressman two Rivers what is been happening for years not most disabled people where the powerless we're not the ones who are taking your money.

You said "I personally know at least 5 people who could work, but don't, because they qualified for one of these programs. What a con. I'm sick of it. "

How do you know that they can work? Are you a doctor of some sort? If you're not a doctor with specialty in the medical area that these people you're talking about have disabilities in, you have no right to judge another person's medical conditions.