Soc Sec, Shutdown my mother and my brother...

[CarrieLynne]

So my mother is on SS retirement....my brother who has psychotic disorder, is also on SS....he came for a visit a few days ago....I havent seen him since before he got diagnosed and on meds 7 years ago....hes now clean and sober and doing ok...so this visit is a good, healing thing right? yes! except when I asked him when he had to be at the airport to go back and he said he isnt going back lol....apparently his clean and sober house he was living in...isnt....so hes on my couch for now....I will support his efforts of course!

so hes trying to get all his behavioral health stuff transferred to this state....once thats done hopefully they can help him get into a house or living situation here.....hes getting into local AA meetings....but hes worried about his SS getting cut off due to the shut down....apparently my mother told him that....shes worried about her own check....she mentioned something about if she gets cut off shes going to get her guns out etc lol.....so if the NSA is watching im sure they are getting a laugh at the 70 year old woman who can only walk a few feet with a walker lol go get em ma!

in any case...I really hope this stuff gets resolved soon.....sober or not...my family seems to be a lot for me to handle sometimes lol

[lostincalifornia]

1. This is what I do not get. Doesn't social security have its own funding separate from the budget?

[CarrieLynne]

2. I thought so but I dunno...maybe its the workers who facilitate it, rather than the funds itself....

[MiniMe]

3. Yes, in the form of Tbills

Most of the current debt is owed to SS and Medicare

[lostincalifornia]

5. We as workers pay into it as a social security tax, no

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[MiniMe]

7. Yes we do, and then the Government borrows from the fund

The fund is now in the form of Tbills. That was supposed to be the most safe investment out there, Thanks to the repukes, I'm not so sure any more

[lostincalifornia]

8. Thanks, I forget they put the social security funds into government T-bills. They used to pay

nothing many moons ago

[RebelOne]

4. Well, I am with your mother.

If I had guns I would get them out if my SS checks stop coming. My son has some and maybe I will borrow them.

[KoKo]

6. I think you are correct to be concerned...but I don't think either will get cut off...

and if it does...there will be more than your Mother's Quip about how she will deal with it.

Your Mom will have ample back up with folks "out in the streets"...but, hopefully without Guns!

[Liberal_in_LA]

9. you seem to have a good sense of humor about it. that helps