Text 28114, 65 rader
Skriven 2009-02-26 13:41:51 av Roy Witt (1:397/22)
  Kommentar till text 28081 av Robert Bashe (2:2448/44)
Ärende: Lucky dogs
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26 Feb 09 12:04, Robert Bashe wrote to Roy Witt:

 RW>> Your sister, being born in 1943, can retire at 'full retirement pay'
 RW>> at 65+8months. But retiring at 65, she is payed 94% of her full
 RW>> retirement pay...

 RB> It's eight months? She told me it was six.

She is incorrect and so am I. The retirement age has been extended by
months, depending on the year you were born. Those born in 1938 were the
first age group to have to wait a few extra months to retire. 1938 full
retirement is at 65 + 2 months. My brother, born in 1942 would have to
have waited 10 months to 65 + 10 months, had he not opted to retire at 62.
Those people like your sister, born in 1943 and later to 1954 can retire
at full retirement at age 66.

 RB>  Otherwise you're naturally right - I meant retirement at full SSC
 RB> rates, not full retirement (paid for, incidently - you don't get a
 RB> pension for free) money.

My mother had one from working at one place for over 20 years. It wasn't
much, but it helped out.

 RB>>> The usual problem is that young people with good health have no
 RB>>> money, and old people with poor health have plenty of money, but no
 RB>>> way to spend it usefully.

 RW>> Speak for yourself, Bob.

 RB> In which respect? Are you young, with plenty of money? Old, with no
 RB> money? Or old, in good health and plenty of things you want to spend
 RB> money to get?

The latter. Although I don't spend money for things I don't need.

 RB> Unfortunately, I can't buy a new body (or even a new lung) with
 RB> money.

That was my father's delemma. He never finished high school, and only
began to make good money when in his late 40s. That was because he was a
very shrewd businessman. He left my mother well off, but then, she had no
desire to do anything once he was gone.

 RB> So it doesn't do me much good nowadays. Although it does heat
 RB> the house, and I do hate to live in a cold shack.

Keeping warm with lung problems is a priority, right? If you don't take
care of them, then they won't be there when you need them.

My father once said that when you're young, you're invincable. When you
get older, you pay for that in invincability. He was right, as he used to
paint hearses and ambulances when he was 18-20 and then installed abestos
lined furneces after the war. All without wearing any filtering masks.

I learned from that and never took any chances with my health.

                R\%/itt


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