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Title: Raise in Social Security payments did you get one?
Post by: debidoo on December 18, 2017, 04:43:59 pm

Oh my goodness, the largest raise since 2012 and I netted a whole $2.  It is such a rip they give us a raise and then increase the medicaid.  To be honest I am surprised I even got the $2.  LOL oh well don't spend it all in one place as my Grandmother would say.

Title: Re: Raise in Social Security payments did you get one?
Post by: linderlizzie on December 18, 2017, 05:02:00 pm

I've been working part-time and expected an increase. It was $2.00 per month extra. Woo hoo! My dreams have come true!

But my SS was already cut in half because of my state pension. Illinois rips off everyone. :crybaby2: Such is life.

Title: Re: Raise in Social Security payments did you get one?
Post by: Katie_thehappywife on December 18, 2017, 05:08:30 pm

my parents did

Title: Re: Raise in Social Security payments did you get one?
Post by: heypeg on December 18, 2017, 05:35:43 pm

I don't think I even got one.

Title: Re: Raise in Social Security payments did you get one?
Post by: Nancy5 on December 18, 2017, 06:12:05 pm

I got my raise, $2.00 a month, and my Medicare increased, so I have less than I did last year.  Love the way this country takes great care of their senior citizens.

Title: Re: Raise in Social Security payments did you get one?
Post by: potluck6 on December 18, 2017, 06:37:31 pm

My husband got one but they raised the Medicare payment and the  prescription  drugs.  So,he'll get 14.00 more dollars. Medicare went from 107 to 134 the drug one from 17 to 20. Think it's through Aetna.

Title: Re: Raise in Social Security payments did you get one?
Post by: mamatygress on December 18, 2017, 08:52:07 pm

I got $6.  I'm not looking forward to the next time they send the stack of forms to look at my disability again.

Title: Re: Raise in Social Security payments did you get one?
Post by: dsosnowski06 on December 18, 2017, 10:30:53 pm

My husband did a whole two dollars and his supplement insurance went up $36.00 a month.

Title: Re: Raise in Social Security payments did you get one?
Post by: yikes77 on December 19, 2017, 06:00:18 am

I have to find out what my mom is getting, though she said she was expecting an increase.

Title: Re: Raise in Social Security payments did you get one?
Post by: ancmetro on December 19, 2017, 06:57:16 am

     It is called COLA-"Cost of living adjustment".
     Some years we get it...other years we do not.

Title: Re: Raise in Social Security payments did you get one?
Post by: adriarobi on December 19, 2017, 07:36:03 am

I am only on partial Soc. Sec. I took it early to help my son raise his kids.

It has gone up $11 because of the cost of living increase.....SERIOUSLY?????

But they cut my food stamps by $6.

Sigh.............................................. :rose:

Title: Re: Raise in Social Security payments did you get one?
Post by: gsdoss on December 19, 2017, 08:07:13 am

Yes,I got a small raise and it will come at a cost

Title: Re: Raise in Social Security payments did you get one?
Post by: Gerianne on December 19, 2017, 08:12:47 am

mine was flat - no increase - no decrease.
I'll just keep coasting along.

Title: Re: Raise in Social Security payments did you get one?
Post by: kingozzy on December 20, 2017, 09:49:36 am

does that even pay?  2 dollars, wow.  I am not that age but my mom is.  So dumb.

Title: Re: Raise in Social Security payments did you get one?
Post by: vickysue on December 20, 2017, 01:52:41 pm

I got a raise of 2% and yep my insurance went up and took it all away.  Hubby got  a  big raise on  his and of course his  insurance went way up. And he is still working and paying into it. What a rip off.  Of course  the government had already ripped me off of 15 years from the kids father. All because we filed jointly on the IRS. So all of the time I worked my tail off on the farm counted  for nothing. Zip, nada. Like I was  a ghost or something.  Yep really ticked me off.

Title: Re: Raise in Social Security payments did you get one?
Post by: Azanne07 on December 20, 2017, 01:58:59 pm

my boyfriends ssi/ssd he got a 2% raise and it amounted to about $9 per month


$2 is crazy that really isn't a raise.

his will help us because our rent is going up by $5