At 82 I still work part time... Food is good... SS isn't:(

I did my 3xrcis3 today by walking th3 five mil3s to fetch my tobak. My tobocconist says h3 is no long3r int3r3std in s3lling tobak so told m3 to tak3 what I want3d on th3 hous3 . H3 was out of my bl3nd but...any port in in a storm as th3y say.

GOOD NEWS: Kn_SD showd up to rinstall 10.4 onto my iMac.

BAD NWS: It didn't work.

BAD NWS My computr crashd during th attmpt.

GOOD NWS Kn got it up and running on 10.1 again.

If anyone really figures out on what our Social Security is based on, I would like to know. My father always said it was the average of the best 5 years of your earning power. My stock broker says it is a complicated formula of your life time earnings. I have heard it is the best 5 of your last 10 years of work. Does anyone know the formula as to what we are paid?

OneBallBoi (imported) wrote: Sun Nov 02, 2008 6:10 pm If anyone really figures out on what our Social Security is based on, I would like to know. My father always said it was the average of the best 5 years of your earning power. My stock broker says it is a complicated formula of your life time earnings. I have heard it is the best 5 of your last 10 years of work. Does anyone know the formula as to what we are paid?

Many people wonder how their benefit is ­figured. Social Security benefits are based on your lifetime earnings. Your actual earnings are adjusted or “indexed” to account for changes in average wages since the year the earnings were received. Then Social Security calculates your average indexed monthly earnings during the 35 years in which you earned the most. We apply a formula to these earnings and arrive at your basic benefit, or “primary insurance amount” (PIA). This is how much you would receive at your full retirement age—65 or older, depending on your date of birth.

This link (http://www.ssa.gov/pubs/10070.html) will take you to a page where you can calculate your benefit.

Go to the Social Security Office in person, they were very helpful. Mine is based upon what I paid in overall in good years. My last 4 years were low. My numbers were based upon age 65 in my case.

You want to get more confused, just go to the Social Security web site for information.

http://www.socialsecurity.gov/planners/faqs.htm

Q. Are my benefits figured on my last five years of earnings?

A. No. Retirement benefit calculations are based on your average earnings during a lifetime of work under the Social Security system. For most current and future retirees, we will average your 35 highest years of earnings. Years in which you have low earnings or no earnings may be counted to bring the total years of earnings up to 35.

Think the only way is to go to the Social Security office to see for yourself. You may want to go a few times just to make sure you are getting the same answer a few times in a row.

Does anyone know the alt-keystroke for a MAC that generates the "e"?

Such as ALT-and hit-0169 will give you "©".

OH NO The last Apple computer I had was an Apple IIe, it was a long time ago, MacWolf was still an old guy but I was much younger a kid even and I think Paolo had not even been born, MacWolf must realize that those Keyboards only last just so long.

River the much younger

tome (imported) wrote: Mon Nov 03, 2008 5:30 am Go to the Social Security Office in person, they were very helpful. Mine is based upon what I paid in overall in good years. My last 4 years were low. My numbers were based upon age 65 in my case.

They were helpful. I appreciated how well they took care of my case.