Rant #3,785: The Right Way

Yesterday, I went to the local Social Security office to alert them that my son had a new job, and this will likely impact his monthly Social Security Disability payments.

The new job has put him over the salary limit per month, so things might have to change.

The most onteresting thing is that Social Security was well behind on my son's work history, thinking he still worked at one job that he lost--a couple of years ago.

I know that I called in all of these changes to Social Security, but they had absolutely no listing of this job activity, for reasons that they didn't question me about.

1) Since a lot of this took place during the pandemic, a lot of it was not correctly recorded.

Back then, the Social Security offices were not open, and you had to do everything over the phone or online, and let's be honest about it, plenty of mistakes were made, and a lot of information was not saved.

2) We moved from Nassau County to Suffolk County during the past two years, and although I did contact the office about this move, I guess the information was not entered correctly or did not carry over from one county to another.

I was being honest about everything, but think about those who aren't so forthcoming about their work history ...

My son could have collected these cash benefits into perpetuity if I wasn't honest, and how many others are fraudulently collecting these benefits?

You wonder how many billions of dollars are being paid out to those who don't deserve them, costing taxpayers plenty!

And they talk about Social Security going under in 10 years, but if fraud like this was weeded out, it could probably go on without interruption for many decades.

I know President Trump vowed to clean up this negligence, but I haven't heard much about it since the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) was somewhat downplayed when Elon Musk left or was pushed out.

But just think about how much money is being doled out to those who don't deserve it.

My son deserved every dollar he got from the government, but with his new job, the amount will certainly differ.

We did the honest thing, but quite frankly, not everyone is as honest as we are.

Any changes won't take place until his case is reviewed, so he will receive these payments until that happens.

How much he will be impacted by this is anyone's guess, but at least we did what was necessary, being above board about his work history.

It was simply the right thing to do.