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Open thread September 15, 2012

Dan Crawford | September 15, 2012 11:49 am

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  • rjs says:
    September 15, 2012 at 12:51 pm

    jodi dean has a new post on how the system screws working people; a friend of hers worked cleaning up the crap at local colleges for 30 years & ended up with a monthly pension of only $70.70…

    (tangentially, i added a comment on the viability of public & private pensions going forward)

  • coberly says:
    September 15, 2012 at 5:47 pm

    rjs

    i don’t know about “the system” but that seems to be the way it’s done everywhere “they” can get away with it.

  • rjs says:
    September 15, 2012 at 5:58 pm

    coberly, i briefly struggled with what to call “that which screws all of us”, but lacking the creativity to come up with a better expression, opted for “the system” as a one size fits all default…

  • Min says:
    September 15, 2012 at 8:26 pm

    I kind of like That Which Screws Us All. 🙂

  • Min says:
    September 15, 2012 at 8:35 pm

    I have been wondering if the anti-American protests will have an effect on the U. S. elections. It may actually cause people to rally around Obama. Obama is the closest to a warrior President that we have had for some time. True, Reagan and Bush II got us embroiled in wars, but that is not the same thing. Obama has the requisite gravitas. Besides, he is the one who got Bin Laden, which is part of what is behind these protests.

  • Nancy Ortiz says:
    September 15, 2012 at 8:40 pm

    jodi dean’s friend needs to go to her local SSA office and apply for retirement benefits ASAP! In the process of doing so, the claims rep(CR)who takes her application will request her earnings record. It will include a computation of her retirement benefit and will show the amount of earnings she has for every year since she has been employed under covered earnings. There is a bunch of other information the CR can provide as well.

    In sum, lower level employees in a university are usually not going to get any kind of pension from the institution and often not from her union, either. Depends on the exact details of her relationship with her employer and her union. Her best source of information is definitely her CR.NancyO

  • coberly says:
    September 15, 2012 at 9:40 pm

    nancy

    thanks, i hope someone passes the information on.

    what i am afraid of is that her employer did not let her pay into social security. i have a friend who is a teacher and has no SS because the state of connecticut has its own retirement system…. which looks like it will never let her retire.

    oh, folks are gonna love it when they “fix” social security.

  • Lyle says:
    September 15, 2012 at 10:40 pm

    Is the college a government institution? If not then SS is there as a private school has to pay SS If government then it depends on the state involved. You say colleges which implies mutliple employers which might explain the issue not enough time at any one employer to get much pension credit.

  • coberly says:
    September 15, 2012 at 11:02 pm

    Lyle

    thanks for explaining.

    but that’s why people need Social Security.

  • Nancy Ortiz says:
    September 16, 2012 at 9:45 am

    The earnings of employees of some non-profit institutions such as hospitals and colleges are not covered for Social Security. This is especially true for religious institutions such as those which employ priests and nuns as well as lay people in non-religious capacities. So, it can complicated. Usually, it’s not all that hard to find out about. That’s one of the things SSA employees do–help people get squared away as much as possible when they want to retire. NancyO

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