Saturday, January 15, 2005

The unmentioned aspect of Social Security

The Rude Pundit has a request.
Since the Rude Pundit wrote about his ass being saved from starvation and certain molestation by Social Security's survivor benefits, he has received a few letters from others whose proverbial and literal asses have been saved. Since survivor benefits, which are tied into the same trust fund as retiree benefits, have been little discussed in the whole Social Security debate, let's open it up. If you have a tale of being saved by Social Security as a survivor, send it to rudepundit@yahoo.com. A selection of them will be posted next week.
I don't have a "story" in that regard. Certainly we wouldn't have starved without the survivor benefits Mom got after Dad died, but she did have three kids at home and a farm to manage, so a few extra dollars - I don't remember how much it was - would have made a difference. I don't have the figures on how much of the Social Security budget goes to survivor benefits (and I'm not going to look it up), but I hadn't even thought about it before now. It's certainly worth considering.

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