Social Security is a Scam.

A few chilling facts about Social Security that you might not know.

All that money you have paid in all your life, you might never see, and your benefactor may never receive. 

Scenario #1

A person can work a low paying job for years, get sick and not be able to work for a few years ~ and SURPRIZE you no longer have enough points to qualify for SSDI {Your disability benefits}, so then you will have to fight to receive SSI. Social security Insurance for the under privileged. It may take a few years to receive, so hang in there. Homelessness may lead to drug addiction, and you could end up dead before a decision is made. For many, they survive barely on the streets getting pushed around and kicked around. Until finally - they start getting the 'benefits'. Which is an amount that does not qualify you for any kind of rent, even in a slum. So, you sign up for low-income housing. Be prepared to live on the streets for another 3-5-7 years as the waiting lists are ridiculously long. But hey, the upside is your getting a few bucks on the first of every month and now your prescriptions are free. 

Scenario #2

Both you and your mate work for the majority of your lives, finally he's old enough to retire and collect his social security. Yay! Not even a year later he passes away. Now where is all his money going to go? You think 'Survivor benefits' right? So, you apply. First, they tell you - YES, your qualified for a few hundred dollars a month, even though you are working. {You are still not old enough to retire}. Now, you wait. Only to receive a second letter saying you get NOTHING, because your earnings are higher than the amount they had planned to give you. You basically have to QUIT your job to collect your earned 'survivor benefits'. Now, all that money that your partner put into Social Security is going to go to someone or somewhere else. It's not coming to you! Oh but wait, once you reach retirement age and start collecting your retirement, we might be able to give you a little bit of it?

Scenario #3

You have worked 35 years, paid into Social Security, paid your taxes. And now, your mental health issues have become unbearable. You are literally 'losing it', mentally. So, you decide for the safety of everyone, you are going to retire early. You will collect a small pension from the company if you were fortunate enough to work for a place that provides pensions. You apply for your Social Security that you have paid into for 35 years... and you get denied. According to them, you are not crazy enough to not be able to work. Even though, you have put everyone's safety FIRST and explained that you can't be around so many people safely anymore. Your mental illness causes violent outbursts that you no longer can control. So you end up homeless and, on the streets, because your pension wasn't enough to keep up the mortgage and you had to sell your house and now you don't have a qualifying income to pay rent either.  Hire an attorney and fight it. What does the attorney do? Nothing more than file the paperwork that you could have filed yourself. But yet he/she will get a fair chunk of your benefits if and when you do finally get approved. That is if you don't commit suicide beforehand. {Mind you, you have already attempted suicide at least 3 times}.

Bottom line. 

The only way you are going to ever see that money you paid in is -

 if you keep working until the retirement age {which is a number they keep raising} {Went from 55 to nearly 70 now}. They secretly hope you die of old age at your job before you ever get a chance to collect 'your money'. 

or if you are so sick and disabled you can't do anything except lay there and rely on nurses to feed you and wipe your ass. 

or if you are a young drug/alcoholic that has never worked a day in your life. You will qualify for SSI faster than anyone that has at least worked. 

or if you're a child who has lost your parent before you turn 18, however, once you are 18 benefits end good luck in life from then on.

of if you have a child with a disability and you don't make enough money to pay for all the extra needs. Be warned, as soon as you get a good paying job, your child's benefits will be cut off. 

BUT YET they say Social Security will be broke in a few years.

SO WHAT IS HAPPENING TO ALL OF YOUR MONEY - ask yourself? 

Social Security is the biggest government SCAM yet. They have it set up to keep denying you until you hire an attorney to do your paperwork, just so attorneys can collect a good portion of your hard earned benefits. Double SCAM going on there. 

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