A Social Security Tale That’s Sad, Funny And Scary At The Same Time
WOMAN IN GLASSES: I want to tell a tale, a true tale, a true story; something that happened, it’s kind of sad but kind of funny and kind of scary all at the same time.
My friend used to live here with hubby and I and he’s retired and he gets Social Security benefits. He had a letter in the mail that said, “Dear Mr. So and So, we regret to inform that we can no longer continue to send you your Social Security benefits because we do not have a correct address for you.”
And at that point I kind of wondered how the letter got to him since the letter had his address on it and got to him. Yeah, the Social Security Administration wrote him a letter addressed to him at his address which said they didn’t have an address for him.
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Where Is My Social Security Check?
Many retirees live from one Social Security check to another. What happens if the checks stop coming? Just ask Lilly Ledbetter.
The the 70-year-old woman from Jacksonville, Alabama, fought a legal battle in 2007 for the rectification of a lower court’s ruling for her case on a long-term wage bias. For the 20 years that she had worked for Goodyear Tire and Rubber. Her male counterparts were earning more than what she was earning and when she found out during retirement, the Supreme Court ruled that because her 180-day time limit had already expired then her case could not proceed.
This technicality made the Congress pass a bill under her name, the Lily Ledbetter Fair Pay Act which is also the first that Obama has signed after becoming President. Although she has received numerous awards, she is still dependent on her retirement funds. This February 2, her monthly benefits from Social Security were not deposited into her bank account and her bills started piling up.
As a retiree, she frequently faces money problems. She blames this on the fact that she was not paid adequately in her job, therefore her contributions for benefits were much less. She is getting less than what she could be receiving if only she had been earning the adequate pay in the past.
The problem with her Social Security benefits started after her husband died last December. Her husband was receiving his retirement benefits from the U.S. Railroad Retirement Board and not from SS. Lilly submitted a request to transfer her husband’s request to Social Security, but a woman who handles the paperwork said that they do not put these urgent priority transfer requests” into the system every time.
Lilly Ledbetter was only 60 when Goodyear forced her out of job. Since she hadn’t turned 62 yet, she was ineligible for SS benefits at the time. She filed 4 cases against Goodyear and one of that case was because she believe that Goodyear had retaliated against her after she complained about discrimination because her male counterparts were paid more than what she was paid.
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