Social Security Tax Rate and Withholding – SSI Limits, Coverage, Retirement Earnings and Benefit Base Limit Changes

UpdatesSee here for the latest COLA increases by year
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The Social Security Administration has officially released the Social Security and SSI information against the background announcement that there will be no cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) increase next year. The zero COLA adjustment means the monthly Social Security and Supplemental Security Income (SSI) benefits will not automatically increase in 2011. Approximately 60 million Americans who receive some form of SSI will be impacted by this change. Of this group, 65% relied on the SSI benefit as their primary source of income, with the the average Social Security benefits payment worth $1,072 a month. The monthly maximum Federal SSI amounts for 2011 are $674 for an eligible individual and $1,011 for an eligible individual with an eligible spouse.

Since there is no COLA, the social security law prohibits a change in the maximum amount of earnings ($106,800) subject to the Social Security tax as well as the retirement earnings test exempt amounts. This is reflected in the table below where 2010 levels remain unchanged into 2011:

2010-2011 SSI Threshold Changes


Will there be a one-time bonus social security supplement payment?

In response to the lack of a COLA increase the White House has stepped up pressure on Congress to provide another one-time SSI payment to help the millions of senior citizens who are already furious for not having received the promised 2010 payment. This is a particularly thorny issue for politicians in an election year, already facing issues like expiring bush tax cuts and a mounting federal deficit.

Fortunately, Ways and Means Social Security Chairman Earl Pomeroy recently announced that the House will take up the Seniors Protection Act when Congress reconvenes later this year. The Seniors Protection Act of 2010 (H.R. 5987) will provide a $250 payment to qualified Social Security recipients. Congressman Pomeroy received assurances today from Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, and Ways and Means Chairman Sander Levin that this bill will be brought to the House floor and passed when the House reconvenes in November

Medicare Premium change

Another impacted issue with the lack of a COLA increase are Medicare premium changes in 2011. The Department of Health and Human Services has not yet announced if there will be any Medicare premium changes for 2011. Should there be an increase in the Medicare Part B premium, the law contains a “hold harmless” provision that protects more than 70 percent of Social Security beneficiaries from paying a higher Part B premium, in order to avoid reducing their net Social Security benefit. Those not protected include higher income beneficiaries subject to an income-adjusted Part B premium and beneficiaries newly entitled to Part B in 2011. In addition, almost 20 percent of beneficiaries have their Medicare Part B premiums paid by state medical assistance programs and thus will see no change in their Social Security benefit. The state will be required to pay any Medicare Part B premium increase.

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44 thoughts on “Social Security Tax Rate and Withholding – SSI Limits, Coverage, Retirement Earnings and Benefit Base Limit Changes”

  1. In reading the comments posted here and the degree of education they display, it is little wonder the country is in the situation it is in. What I see here is comments from people that have failed to take responsibility for themselves. Most of the comments are from takers who failed to plan, most likely dropped out of school and spent most of their earnings, if they indeed had any, pleasing themselves.
    Do we have the government I would like to see? No! Our government is more about buying votes to support people who have failed to provide for themselves and now take the government to task for failing to do what they failed or would not do.
    There are a good many individuals who deserve support, but not many of them have posted comments here. Social Security was never designed to provide for full needs and it was not designed for all it is used for now. Social Security was designed for those who paid into it over a life time and then provide only a supplement to the individuals own savings or provide retirement plans. The sad truth is those who failed to take advantage (many of your writers) of our free education are now paying for their stupidly. Those entering our country now (for the most part) are hard workers who pay their share of taxes and have only ask for an opportunity to build a better life for their families. It amazes me how they can come here with nothing and create an exceptional life and individual (your writers) born here cannot. How many of them would write the uneducated comments listed here?
    Americans, such as most of your contributors, should take responsibility of their current plights and be thankful for what other hard working people are providing for them, even if it may not be enough. Each should be thankful for what he/she is given and aware of his/her own self imposed failures.

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  2. I really don’t blame the president. I blame those who votes against the president for trying to help us. The governments really have to understands how we living in our world that includes those who. Work at white house living off with our money.

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  3. 1995, Single. I became pregnant at 23 of age. Working full time. Receiving foodstamp, wic, at time. Living with parents. Pregnant again, on the following year. Decided to leave my job. Raise my two children. Decided to lived in a apt. (government section 8). My children was receiving SSI benefit from their father. After 3 year caring for my children, children father past on. Receiving survivor benefit starting $25(1997)$50(1998)each. My sibling has me giving a car for transportation. Decided to look a job. When got the job(part-time). I send my children to headtstart(daycare/education center) my children learn a lot. I reported to foodstamp office. My income/ including children income. I no longer qualify for foodstamps. Few month later job position full-time. No longer qualify for Medicaid for my children, but qualify C.H.I.P.(children health insurance program) for ten years. Children doesn’t have ins.. I decided not to re-apply insurance for my children. For I decided to use private pay with my Health benefit card. I make sure phyisical exam., Blood work, eye exam, check-up and immune vaccine updates any can a single parent must do for their children. It is hard to survive. I’m doing the I best can to care for my children and myself. My children and I make sure we don’t get sick or get injure. I provide the them a laptop, all-in-one printer( include scan, copy, print picture) cellphone thing to help for their education at school. I also provide a car for daughter to take herself take her sibling to school. For I could get to work on time. Job is strict now. Late three or more get suspended can’t afford that. I no longer in a section 8 program for eight years. Paying rent, bills barely surviving. But I manages so far. I have a teen fixing to graduate 2013. Educate more and become eye doctor or professor history. Hoping she get scholarship or apply financial aid. They are the top 10% of their class. I did my best to educate and care for my children they are my priority. There were time we live without food in the house a day. We visit family or friends they would Provide us money or food. God bless us. We all need to learn to teach ourselves and our children to survived. If we don’t our children won’t know to survive. Sorry, telling everyone about my life story.

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  4. if we gave back a dollar to the ssi fund and contrubited another dollar to are political fund and 25 cents to a monthly lottery for the disabled one winner from ever county. might not be a great amount of money but a little to look foward to, and the taxed lottery half go’s straight to getting our country out of debt.( it is a start) and the congress of these united states would look apone us as a partner rather than a hole in the ground and they would fight harder for our rights …just a thought..

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  5. I am 42 and disabled i get 694 a month and Texas will not give me food stamps they say i get to much money what a joke i fat alot of ramen noodles just so i won’t starve what’s wrong with America the president gets 600 thousand a year that averages to about 500 dollars a DAY if he really wants to help like he says he does he should give up half of that Hell i would live great on just a fifth of that

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  6. Why is it that congress gets raises? Why can’t they say no to that money and help us americans who put them in office? They are only thinking of themselves,the president too,he can give up some of the money he gets a year. These people don’t care about us,we are forgotten.Us seniors are too old to work.Work is just too hard to find,especially for our ages.The bosses want young workers,they will be at the job longer than we would.Us seniors are promised a $250 stimulous check to help us then they renig on us and we seniors are disappointed.We need that money to help us for extra food or our bills.Congress should try living on what we get a month,they would complain too.Our country isn’t going broke,when someone wins the lottery, what does congress do with all the taxes from it? They pocket this money thats what they do. Stop filling us americans with all this bull that the country is going broke cause we’re not buying it.

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  7. The government is NOT BROKE< THEY ARE LIARS!!! I pray to God for my needs and that he helps us. I like a lot of you worked 18 years with a permanent brain injury and scoliosis. I worked until I couldnt anymore. MY SPECIAL NEEDS SON IS HOMELESS AT 25. The Government just wants to kill us off. NO inflation? MY ASS!! the prices of everything has gone up but our Checks! I NEED THAT STIMULUS CHECK. When the crime rate goes up blame the Government. How come President HOOVER had NO PROBLEM keeping illegals out of the country? THat is OUR BIGGEST problem. They are sucking up our money that we earned and they dont belong here. Send them home. Fellow Christians, keep praying, I am in the Ministry and I still dont habe orthodics that I need to walk right and am afraid to have back surgery as I live alone. My son has Schizopherenia and I have a full plate of disabil,ities including Chronic Fatigue syndome, Anxiety, Osteoporosis 2 old breaks in my back and PAIN every day. I pick up my cross daily and do not complain , but I pray to GOD they send us a stimulus check OF COURSE IT WILL BOOST THE ECONOMY everyone will be buying what they NEED. I have heard a lot of angry people saying we should overthrow the Governmetn they are so mad. I would neer as I am a Christian. GOD IS WATCHING, so keep praying and if you have the faith we WILL get the stimulus checks this year.

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  8. 731 a mo doesn’t go far. I can work, but not consistently. They say if I work they will kick me off. Between rock/hard place. On good days I walk neighbors dog for a couple bucks. Garage sale for cheap material to make Xmas items and sell them. Pick up old paperback novels & sell on e-bay. Total of 150-200 a month. It helps. I still try to talk ss into understanding I cannot work consistently & never know when it’s good day or bad until it’s here. No one hires someone like me. God Bless all of you

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  9. I must say as a single female living alone on s.s.i. and disibility that only totals $694.00 a month the govermenet needs to regroup. I know Mr.Obama can’t fix in a year what The Bush family messed up in 8. I think the #1problem is we need to send some people back to mexico and stop letting them come over here and have children and LIVE free off of our goverment programs. if the goverment would send these people back to their home land, The people born ,raised and worked in u.s.a. for so many years may be able to get the help we need so badly from our goverment! I dont think its right that they come over work elegal and send money back home to their families in mexico either if its made here keep it here thats the # 2 problem

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    • Moma, what are you thinking where do you get your facts from, what does Mexico have to do with your $$those people do not live free off the govt. they work and never see any of the tax money they paid back like you, they never get ssn , ssi, or anything, please get your fact right so you do not sound like another bum American, please

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  10. 13% of Americans are on food stamps right now and these programs were originally intended for emergency, not to provide your every need the rest of your life. quit whining about the government and do something for your own situation like quite smoking, get a job if you can work or move in with your college educated kids that your so proud of, get a grip people, the government can’t do everything for you.

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  11. There is one word that sums up what is wrong with the people that run our “beloved” government… and that is GREED… That is it! That is all! There is no purpose… there is no method to this madness… The banks took all the money… It is a new world we live in when the bank robbers are the banks themselves… There aren’t any jobs out there… The banks are throwing people out of their homes daily and for what? To stand empty, rotting into the ground all around us… It sickens me to see this everywhere! AND what does the government do? Cuts spending on schools and our rightfully earned Social Security Benefits… and they don’t stop there. Capitalism is how we live and breath… If you own a business and you run it poorly you will go out of business and the government says “tough”! but if you have a giant mega conglomerate bank like AIG or Bank of America and you run it poorly… the government bows at your feet and not only helps you out, preventing you from going bankrupt, they give you money to pay outrageous bonuses of millions of dollars to people who obviously can’t do their jobs properly… People who should be FIRED! Get treated with MILLION dollar bonuses to keep doing their job wrong…. There is nothing capitalistic about that!!! NOTHING!!! So we know where the money went and why… Now all we have to do is get it back!! How? Good question. Does anyone have any answers short of a coup d’ ‘etat?

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  12. I worked for 40 years and went on disability after years of shoulder injuries and surgeries. Cannot get medicare and medicaid is $1320.00 a MONTH how can I pay this, what did I pay taxes for all those years??? No raises and now I’m so far behind may need to file bankruptcy and loose all I ever worked for.

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  13. to barocka obama and whitehouse staff i hope all of you can get a contermise on our social security without cutting out our social security people on social security socialsecurity disadelity have worked to hard and to long to see our money disaper we need our money if your whitehouse staff is wanting to cut something out cut the medicade bill out put it into the social security make social security and medicare only for seniors sick and disabled give food stamps to the working familys and seniors disabled we dont need a govermant shut down cutting the medicade bill would save social security for years to come fix it where these young wamon who are not sick are have a sick child get a job iv worked all of my life they should to

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  14. the govnment need to help the low income families with increase in disability, retirement checks, and they make enough cars to give to every family. No one should be without a car. This country is going down hill. when we put these people in office they promise to do this and that, then it is all a different story when they get in office, they forget you and their promises. this is why I am not voting for nobody anymore, because it is all a lie, even in Local government. Nobody cares about you, I am looking to the hills which cometh my Help and all of my help is coming from the Lord. Father I stretch my hand to thee, No other Help I Know or Trust. Amen.

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  15. My wife and I are both on ssi cant get help for food or enything
    we to find it hard to get food over MEDS we too need the stemules
    check its rich over the poor they to will have there turn then someone
    will deside there fate
    god help us all hes always has and always looking out for
    us

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  16. I Too fill this cant live like this food over MEDS MY WIFE and I are ssi
    cant get food help we too need a stemules check but not going to happen
    the rich over the poor I TOO HAVE work at 13 till i got diabled my wife too
    god help us all thats all we have

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  17. I pray that GOD will touch these people hearts and they will find it in there heart to have compassion on people like us who trying so hard to keep our head above water doing these hard time. Gary

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  18. i was 3 qtrs short of having enough 2 draw social security disability payments.
    i raised 3 children…with “no” child support, food stamps, or welfare assistance. all 3 have college educations, and work every day.
    in 1999 i had cancer, in 2003 i had 2 heart attacks, in 2007 i had 3 strokes, in 2010 had open heart surgery with 5 by-pass…i am supposed 2 have surgery in 2011 on the left carotoid artery. Think i “might” be disabled? Try living on $674 a month, if that doesn’t worry you to “death” nothing will. i have to live with my daughter, because i cannot afford to live in a house/apartment of my own and pay utilities. at 61 i am still a human being who would love to have a little “quality” of life. when people can draw more on unemployment in 6 months than i can draw in a year on “disability”….where is the reasoning of our government???

    i am sad, disappointed, and totally depressed over the life i EXPECTED to live after raising my children and working to educate them.

    shae pierce

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  19. DEAR MR. CONGRESSMAN, MR. SENATOR, MR. PRESIDENT, I AM A SENIOR WHO’S ONLY SOURCE OF INCOME IS SOCIAL SECURITY,, I DID NOT RECEIVE A STIMULUS COST OF LIVING CHECK IN THE YEAR OF 2010, or for the year of 2011.. ARE THESE CHECKS FOR CERTIN PEOPLE,?? OR IS IT THAT, IF YOU DONT ASK,, YOU WILL NOT RECEIVE.. I AM IN SOO NEED OF HELP.. LIFE SHOULD NOT BE THAT I SHOULD MAKE A CHOICE BETWEEN FOOD OR MEDICAIN.. ONE THING IS FOR SURE,, OLD AGE WILL COME UPON YOU TOO ONE DAY, WHERE OTHERS WILL MAKE DECISIONS FOR YOU AS WELL,, I HAVE WORKED SINCE AGE 13 IN THIS COUNTRY,, I OUGH NOT TO SUFFER THE WANT OF FOOD OR MEDICAINS…

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  20. I feel that I have a right to complain also. I am on disability and yes I am only 45 and I have been on it for 5 years. It was not my idea to be on disability it was my doctor’s. I was told that if I did not stop working it would be only a matter of time before I would not be able to walk on my own. I would be in a wheel chair. I can’t stand not working. I really wish I could go back to work, but that is no longer an option for me. Our government seems to think that I can live on $917.00 a month and we all know that is impossiable. I may add that I also get $158.00 in food stamps and that is no where enough to get me enough food for the month. My duaghter and grandkids has moved in with me and if it wasn’t for her help I would have been homeless a long time ago. I can’t even aford to buy the nasesaties for my house or me. I also have found out that if u can’t work at all no agency out there will help you get a car. I have been walking everywhere I have to go which is hard on my back. It makes me feel like I am less of a person which is really depressing. I don’t see how our government can say we don’t need a cost of living increase. I see them in there nice clothes, there kids in there nice clothes, and driving very nice cars. We get a lot of there clothes from second hand stores or friends that have kids that are older and have outgrown there clothes. So the next time someone rich complaines about how much something cost or how much taxes they have to pay they should be grateful for what they have.

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    • I am in the same boat but without any one living with me how much more are we supposed to take when you canafford and thing but what you get at thift stores or given to you they all need to take along hard look and spend one day in our shoes I know that the could not do it and that’s sad that this is what this country has come to I worked my whole life to pay into this only to get knowing but more cut baks shame on all you people oin washington stat thinking of the people other than your selfs

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  21. I THINK WHAT DUMBFOUNDS ME THE MOST, IS THAT THE GOVERNMENT SAYS THAT THE “RECESSION” IS OVER!! I WOULD REALLY LOVE TO KNOW WHAT PLANET THE DECISION MAKERS WITH REGARD TO SSI , AND SSD, AND SOCIAL SECURITY ARE LIVING ON?

    I LIVE IN KENTUCKY… AND IF THAT ISN’T ENOUGH SAID, GAS HAS GONE BACK UP OVER 3.00 A GAL, FOOD PRICES ARE UP BY ATLEAST 20%, MEDICATION IS UP, EVEN IF IM ON MEDICAID I STILL HAVE TO PAY A CO-PAY AND NEVER USED TO HAVE TO. NO COLA RAISE, NO RAISE IN FOODSTAMP BENEFIT’S, AND THE NEW GOVERNOR IS WANTING TO HAVE THE FOOD STAMP BENIFITS CUT!!
    I WOULD SO LOVE FOR THESE NUMB NUTS IN THE SENATE, AND OUR STATE AND LOCAL BOZO’S TO HAVE TO LIVE ON WHAT WE LIVE ON, FOR ONE SOLID YEAR… THEN TELL US THE RECESSION IS OVER, OR THAT WE DONT NEED A RAISE, OR HEY.. GOD FORBID GIVE US ADDITIONAL BENEFITS, LIKE A BIG FAT CLOTHING ALLOWENCE CHECK FOR EACH CHILD WE HAVE THAT NEED CLOTHING 3 TIMES A YEAR. IM POSSITIVE THAT THERE CHILDREN DONT HAVE TO WHERE “GOOD WILL” CLOTHING, AND THANK GOD FOR GOOD WILL AND CHURCHES THAT HELP THOSE OF US THAT NEED IT. AS FAR AS WHAT GROUP DOES THE MOST FOR US WHEN THEY ARE IN OFFICE… PAAALEASE DO NOT MAKE ME LAUGH… THOSE OF US IN THE POVERTY LEVEL, AND SUB POVERTY LEVEL, HAVE NEVER BEEN HELPED BY ANY “PARTY” IN OFFICE. THEY WANT TO SWEEP US UNDER THE CARPET AND PRETEND WE DONT EXIST. WE PUT IN OUR YEARS OF WORK, OUR HARD EARNED DOLLARS WERE HAPPILY TAKEN OUT OF OUR CHECKS… AND THEY BEGRUDGE US WHAT LITTLE WE GET BACK WHEN WE NEED IT. I ALSO HAPPEN TO THINK THAT THOSE OF THE “RICH AND FAMOUS” THAT GOT RICH ON THE LIKES OF US POOR FOLK WATCHING THEM ON T.V… COULD DO THEM SELVES AND US ALOT OF GOOD, BY PICKING FAMILIES IN THERE OWN STATES TO GIVE A HAND UP TO…NOT A HAND OUT MIND YOU. YES THEY WORKED HARD TO GET WERE THEY ARE, BUT IF IT WERE NOT FOR US… OUR GOVERNMENT LEADERS, SINGERS, ACTORS ECT. WOULD BE WHERE THEY ARE. BOY I WENT WAY OFF THE DEEP END THERE LOL. BUT YA’LL GET THE IDEA.
    I WANT OUR GOVERNMENT TO PUT UP AND SHUT UP. HELP US FIRST AND IF THERE IS ANY LEFT OVER, PICK A COUNTRY TO HELP… NOT 10 OF THEM.
    MARY

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  22. LORD OF HEAVEN. GOD please have mercy us . Whe people old , dissable , elderly,or poor get no pity from the RICH.

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  23. have you seen how people in congress and at the white house spend the holidays,goingout dancing in these outfits that could buy us a new car. give me a break, will they sit down to a bowl of beans and cornbread, and guess what, corn bread cost a lot to make nowadays. and try feeding you’re self on 166.00 a month for 2 people. yea i go to food banks and so should those replublicans and thoses in congress. shame shame shame on u people out their come on people lets vote then out next time around. cause they don’t care about us poor folks, and they never did. why they wont even give us 250.00 they gotta fight about it, come on president stick up for us poor people for a change. the land of the free. huh, yea right were getting our rights taken away everyday. a right to go to the dr. a right to feed our family when were having a hard time. give me a break obama.

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  24. I am sixty four years old and on social security,and have a very simple answer to our needs.There is and has been stupid projects funded at the cost of HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS to study why frogs are different colors,blue and gray BUGS life span and where they live,flowers that are rare,why certain animals do things others do not………so on and so forth,who cares,even when we were in better financial shape I was against this wasteful spending,BRING IT ALL BACK and use that money to take care of the seniors and all our needs,it is more than enough without hurting the budget………PEOPLE ARE MORE IMPORTANT!!!!!

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  25. I am in agreement with each and everyone of you people that are on social security and ssi payments…..what is wrong with our people in the white house ? why are they making the poor people ,poorer and the rich people richer, i mean come on, people that are on disability cant even afford a car/truck to get to and from doctors appointments,cant afford to feed their children all month, this is plan wrong,especially when the government sends out millions of dollors to other countries that are supposingly starving ,what about the truth american people that have been here since birth,and families that have been brought into this country,by birth,not by immigration. This whole thing is ridicolous,considering ,all the millions of immigrants that have came to or country ,and is able to recieve more food stamps,and cash assistance from the states,including social security,,what is wrong with our government that is in office, can anyone explain that one ? if they had not approved the immigrants social security from our country ,we all in america would be getting or pay raises each year….but instead immigrants are taking it from us …this is not even a free country anymore,when it comes to the t rue american people !!!!

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  26. This is for the creep that stated Seniors shouldn’t get a stimulus ck of a lousy $250. We did not get COLA in 2010 and now 2011. OF COURSE CONGRESS voted themselves a raise….I am 75 yrs old and have paid into SS all my life. IF congress didn’t use Social Security $$$ that we niors paid into over these years then there would be dollars available. As for Medicare we seniors do pay. Medicare payment is taken right out of our SS Ck. ANY more questions you would like to have answered SONNY

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  27. I recieve disability benafits and after I pay my bills I don’t have any thing left . They cut my food card down to $26.00 and what can you buy with that amount for a month? I’m wondering if I will get the $250.00, that would really help me out . Please let me know I don’t want to post my social security numbe.

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    • As I understand it the Republicans voted NO on $250. Sorry no $$ for 2011. I would like to know why AARP says they stand up for Seniors. HUH that seems to be a joke. The lobbyists (AARP) dont’t seem to be for seniors or they would be a voice for US.

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  28. I live month to month i have to pay the 2o percent of part b i only get $16 a month food stamps and soc -sec as of July 2010 starting taking from me $110 a month cause they say that the state no longer pays my premium,,,,,,im hoping that the $250 will be approved it will help me get caught up a bit….that would be a big help to me,and my premiums will be paid or lowered, we don’t get the cola and that’s no right we deserve it i’ve worked all my yrs since 14 and then in 2003 i had an 18 hr brain surgery,,then in 2004 started having Seizures and haven’t worked since but i have paid in all my yrs since 18 it’s only fair that we get this help thank you

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  29. I am currently a disabled 31 year old single mom. I receive S.S.I. and Medicare, which Medicare pays 80% I am supposed to pay the other 20%. I can not afford to pay the 20%, I struggle every month to make ends meet. I do not receive Food stamps or Medicaid I do not qualify.I barely receive enough to live and to much to get assistance. Now no COLA AGAIN!!!! The 250 would help get things I need! I guess none of these people really put themselves in our shoes. So are we gonna get this 250 for 2011? They should go back and let us get it for 2010! That would be a great help! Wishful thinking!

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  30. Im disabled and have a hard time making end meet we get no cola I think this is so on fairI do think that the $250 will help a lil bit it not like we go out and get a job please think of us in this matter please

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  31. It is time for the people to take back control of the government, afterall we elect the senators and congressmen as well as the President to do a job for us, and they are failing misserably at the task. Not only are we Trillions in debt, and it keeps mounting. Enough aid to other countrys, bailing out banks, auto manufactures and such, for we the people of the United states should be recieving the aid where it is needed most. I would love to see a senator or congressman live off of a social security check, worring on how they are going to pay for medications, food , electricty, and other essentials.
    So when they vote themselves another pay increase, they themselves should have to do without as well, when they can give to the american public what they themselves take for granted, then and only then should they even be considered for a increase of their salaries aswell.

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  32. I am 32. I have 3 children whom will not be getting anything from me for christmas this year. I live off of 674.00 dollars a month.That barely pays my bills. It took all of my check this month to pay all the bills. I just had surgery october 29 for the fifth time. The cost of living has gone up! I guess when you are sitting high and your family has all they need you forget about the little people who really need the help. I had a nice church family donate our families thanksgiving dinner this year. Bless those who are willing to give rather than take all they can from people who have the bare essentials. I really hope that they decide to help us all even if its just a little….

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  33. My husband is on Social Security Disability, so the extra money would sure help, but it will NOT stop us from having Christmas because Christmas isn’t about gifts and money. It’s about love and family, and no bureaucrat or banker can take away our love.

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  34. Our govt. should have more consideration for people on a fixed income. It’s a shame that all the Big Whigs will have a nice Christmas, and millions of AMERICANS may not even have one. There is a lot to be fixed in our govt. I pity our young generation, only the Lord knows what will happen. This is America, people shouldn’t lose their homes, or go hungry. I wish the people in our govt. had to live on some of our incomes for a year. They would be crying; for their hotsy totsy cars, their fancy clothes, and having to eat beans and rice for dinner. These people need to wake up and stop being greedy.

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  35. THIS ELIZABETH AGAIN, I AM INTERESTED IN THE STIMULUS CK FOR 2010 OR 2011 I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW IF WE ARE GOING TO GET ONE OR NOT. AS A SENIOR CITZEN I HAVE TO TRY TO MAKE MY MORTGAGE PAYMENT WITH MY CK. AND PAY ALL MY BILLS WITH MY HUSBAND’S CK FROM WORK. WHICH IT IS NOT MUCH. LIVING ON A FIXED INCOME IS NOT EASY. I HAVE 11 GRANDCHILDREN AND 1 GREAT GRANDCHILD,WHICH IS NOT GOING TO SEE CHRISTMAS FROM US THIS YEAR. AND THERE IS ALOT OF PEOPLE NOT JUST US THAT WILL NOT HAVE CHRISTMAS THIS YEAR.IT IS WRONG,I BET ALL OF THE PEOPLE IN CONGRESS AND THE HOUSE WILL BE HAVING A NICE HOLIDAY THIS YEAR. JUST REMEMBER WHO PUT YOU THERE,TO RUN THE COUNTRY FOR US.

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  36. i agree 1000.00 doesnt go far alot of heartaches for me and many more each month trying to stretch a dollar in this day and time is like trying to win the lottery u got milk @ 3.00 dollars a gallon and gas prices 289.9 a gallon i hve been trying to save and ever month now i hve to get in what i try to save for a stove to cook for my family @ 200.00 or 250.00 i only draw enough a month to pay my bills and the last 3 wks are to borrow from family so im back to paying back out of the next mnths check and then i am back where i started from so as for me and many others please consider this 2nd stimulas for 2010 and 2011 a little bit of recovery for aleast a 1mnth or a 2mnth help out we all i sure would appreciate it it would mean alot to all of us. i hope congress agrees and passes the 2010-2011 for the stmulas payment of $250 .00 Also brocka obama u r a great presidet ur wife and children are the sweetest people i hve ever seen in the white house as for me and my family may god bless u and urs on the upcoming of this beautiful christmas all to u and from us in a small town of indiana

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  37. So i need to know when or where i can still visit to know if either my brother or father or aunt will get this 250 payment again… i haven’t been able to find anything as of November 17th,2010.
    Thank you.

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  38. Myself and a lot of people I know could use some help. Social security does not pay the bills anymore and a lot of people lie me are no able to work to et extra income. I don’t wish no hard luck on anyone, but, some of the politicians sold have to lve on $1,000 per month. It ain’t easy.

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  39. barocka obama i sure hope the demacrects win tuesday november 2 2010 election isyou will be able to get everything you want passed will pass the demicrets will lisen to everything you say most of your demicrets arefor the pore and mittle class they will sign and pass most of the bills you put on the table i love it when the demicrets control the house things get done that need to be done a lot of people i know are not happy with the work you are doing who cares i love the work you are doing i thank you are doing a good job it is taking time cleaning up after eight years of bush love you your family and your white house staff god bless all of you may god be with all of you

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