Quiz: How Much Social Security Will You Get?

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Our President of The United States has passed a bill under our
noses and without our knowledge and both parties have spent so much of our social sec taxes we have paid in they now say no more money to just keep up with inflation.
Another words we the government are keeping your interest and in the much nearer future Social Sec.benefits will be worth absolutely nothing!Both parties vote themself a raise every year without our approval how about no future increases congress!We the people should stand up not as trouble makers but
within the law get this bill passed.The rich are getting richer & the middle class are becoming poorer.Why don't we have the rights we used to have.God Help Our Nation what has become of The freedom of speech on both sides?

B.Darrel Brown Sr. of KY 3:24PM May 06, 2009

nice, really nice!

Invexixheli of AL 1:19AM April 17, 2009

I like receiving the annual social security report. However, I feel there are two deficiencies with it:
1) The report estimates the monthly payment we would get when we retire. However, it does not say if that is the payment we would get if we stopped working today and didn't work again until we began receiving social security, or if that is the payment we would get based upon the assumption that our income in the future would be about the same as it had been in the past. Just one sentence would clarify that.
2) In its estimate of the monthly payment, it does not say if it would be that dollar amount, or that amount which would be inflation adjusted to a higher amount in the future.

David Marcus of AZ 7:42PM April 10, 2009

I am currently receiving WIDOW benefits. It would be great to have the ability to calculate the benefits I could receive on my own record. It would greatly enhance my decesion making.

Emil D. Revala of NC 3:04PM April 07, 2009

I wish there were a calulator to show what my benefits would be based on my "ex-husband's" work record.We'd been married 21 years, (we have 6 kids together). He is 57 and I am 51. Is there any way to do this? I can see a approximate projection as to my benefits based on my OWN work record...but can I see what it'd be using my ex-husband's work record? I searched the Social Security website and could not find anything.

Sue of WI 11:42PM April 03, 2009

Veronica- that is a good point, and one I will reporting on more soon!

Kimberly Palmer of DC 12:47PM April 03, 2009

I look at the statement and I all I can think is look at all the money I paid into the system and will probably never get....

Veronica of NY 12:37PM April 03, 2009

I love getting my annual SS statement for the very reason you describe. It's a fascinating history of my earnings over the years. It's strange, but I feel a real sense of accomplishment when I look at the summary going back years and see steadily increasing annual income from $44 my first year of work as a teenager to my current respectable income.

Mr. coffee of DC 11:30AM April 03, 2009