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TXgolfer said:
20 work credits over a 10 year period. They would have to earn roughly $6,000/yr 5 out of 10 years to qualify. Granted, their benefits would be small until health kicked in. Hardly the same as an employee who worked full time plus overtime for 38 years.
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Benefits would be negligable, even after the Medicaid/Medicare benefits kicked in. SSDI is not awarded to those that have not worked and paid into the system. Rolling is in error in stating that it is.

Under the amounts that you just specified, and individual would qualify for approximately $150-200 a month. Care to show me how one, escpecially with a disability that requires special care, can live off of that amount?
 
TXgolfer said:
No I retired 2 1/2 years ago..... It would be easier for me though because of Meniere's (we get a special mention). Believe it or not they don't consider assets for SSDI. I don't qualify for SSI
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If you are drawing SSDI, you have to have proven a permanent disability that prevents holding a job of any kind. Are you really trying to tell us that you "qualify" for SSDI, but do not draw SSDI? How, then, would you know that you qualify? Did you go through all of the application procedure, medical examininations, and review of records just to NOT draw the benefits. If you have not been through the process, on the other hand, you don't know if you qualify or not, as benefit awards are decided on a case by case basis.:cool2:
 
jillio said:
Benefits would be negligable, even after the Medicaid/Medicare benefits kicked in. SSDI is not awarded to those that have not worked and paid into the system. Rolling is in error in stating that it is.

Under the amounts that you just specified, and individual would qualify for approximately $150-200 a month. Care to show me how one, escpecially with a disability that requires special care, can live off of that amount?
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That same person would have paid roughly $1800 into the system. By your minimum estimation that same person receives $1800 in benefits in the first year. Hardly equal to a man that paid in on full time work for 38 years.
 
TXgolfer said:
Mathematically speaking, he would have had 12 hours a day 7 days a week off. :)

I think the bold is probably incorrect as well unless you are talking about commutes.
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Mathematically speaking, those hours are illegal. Time off is figured into days off between a series of consecutive work day shifts. :roll:
 
TXgolfer said:
That same person would have paid roughly $1800 into the system. By your minimum estimation that same person receives $1800 in benefits in the first year. Hardly equal to a man that paid in on full time work for 38 years.
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Which man are you referring to that has worked full time for 38 years and is drawing SSDI?

And you are, once again, failing to answer direct questions. Par for the course.
 
jillio said:
Workman's Comp is time limited in all areas of the country. And, the employer has to be paying into workman's comp for an employee to be eligible for workman's comp payments, including medical bills. Workman's comp is not a "free entitlement."
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I wasn't eligable for it when I walked off a job many years ago. I don't regret walking off it but I do regret not having a job lined up for me when I did that.
 
TXgolfer said:
Maybe you missed my second sentence as well
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Then it is not incorrect, nor is it probably incorrect.

You should spend some time answering direct questions posed to you instead of trolling and nit picking.
 
jillio said:
Workman's Comp is time limited in all areas of the country. And, the employer has to be paying into workman's comp for an employee to be eligible for workman's comp payments, including medical bills. Workman's comp is not a "free entitlement."
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:confused: I never said it was a free entitlement. I know how it works. I simply posted how long it lasts, that it's not permanent.
 
As usual, a certain poster is trying to be a know-it-all. Trying to tell me what I know and what I don't know but coming as close as possible to call me a liar. Fortunately for me, I kept all my old pay stubs, so I can prove all I said about U.S.P.S. More so, anyone can ask those who worked along side me about those 84 hrs weeks. Here is how it works: when I first started it was 10 pm to 10 am schedule with 30 minutes for "lunch", in addition to two paid 10 min. "coffee breaks".

This equal to a 40 hr.work week. The 3 1/2 hours of overtime each day equal 16 1/2 hrs. (we are now at 40 + 16.5 = 56.5) Then there is the two "suppose to be" off days of 11 1/2 hours (equal to 23 hrs.) So now we are at 56.5 + 23 = 79.5 hrs of accountable time. Where does this 84 hrs. come into play, you ask?
Easy, just do this 12 hrs. from clock-in until clock-out X 7 days = 84.

Illegal? What a laugh! Just tell that to all the deaf/hearing co-workers who suffered and lost their families along side me. I'm not saying it was always like this but it took years to cut back on MANDATORY overtime and off-days/holiday work.
Even then, the rules of must be allow to have one off-day a week were suspended during the month of December.

I'm also not saying that postal workers had an exclusive harsh working condition because I do know other jobs are just as demanding of the elements. I'm only making the point that a certain poster is saying I did not earn my retirement and I know all postal workers did earn every penny.

I've explain in my reply to Cheetah just what I think entitlement is and make no excuse for thinking this way. It is base on my experience with the people receiving assistance. I have meet those worthy and those unworthy. I look at it this way: every entitlement program is necessary for those truly deserving of assistance. I agree with Cheetah that both sides of the coin people cheating the programs and the programs short-changing people need an overhaul.

I'm not an expert on SSDI/SSI but having been around many, many deaf and knowing their life stories, I've form an opinion based on what they shared with me.
 
Reba said:
:confused: I never said it was a free entitlement. I know how it works. I simply posted how long it lasts, that it's not permanent.
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No you didn't say it was a "free" entitlement. Others have said that. You probably should refrain from taking everything so personally.
 
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