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elizabethl123 — Thu, 13 Dec 2018 21:49:49 GMT

NO RAISE FOR ME SOB

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luvmybeetle — Thu, 13 Dec 2018 22:03:32 GMT

I received a $7 raise. Whoopie. I haven't received any raise in 3 years.

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aroc3435 — Thu, 13 Dec 2018 22:12:37 GMT

@elizabethl123 @luvmybeetle Sorry that you are not getting a Social security increase in January or a very slight one. I'm not collecting yet.

On the bright side at least Social Security is still in place and they don't decrease the monthly amount.

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luvmybeetle — Thu, 13 Dec 2018 22:17:20 GMT

@aroc3435 wrote:
@elizabethl123 @luvmybeetle Sorry that you are not getting a Social security increase in January or a very slight one. I'm not collecting yet.

On the bright side at least Social Security is still in place and they don't decrease the monthly amount.

You are so right. At least we get something for all the hard work we did all those years.

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grandma r — Thu, 13 Dec 2018 22:20:54 GMT

This is my first raise ever!!!!!! Not much, but, in the big picture, my secondary insurance went up nearly double the amount of my "raise". And, this is not an entitlement. I worked and paid into the system for decades!!!!

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Hooty — Thu, 13 Dec 2018 22:24:22 GMT

@luvmybeetle wrote:
I received a $7 raise. Whoopie. I haven't received any raise in 3 years.

@luvmybeetle, Wow, I am rich, I got $9.00!

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blackhole99 — Thu, 13 Dec 2018 22:29:57 GMT

SS is not giving us anything, we earned the money that SS sends every month. If the government does not want to pay us and not give us cost of living raises they should not have taken the money out of our paychecks all those years. I got a small raise, but then some of it was taken back with an increase in Medicare. I'm glad I don't have to rely on SS totally for my retirement income.

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SilleeMee — Thu, 13 Dec 2018 22:33:48 GMT

I don't receive SS but my retirement income people sent me a letter a few months ago stating that there won't be another raise until 2020 (July). Normally there were automatic 2% raises every year for the last ten or more years. Now, there's some kind of trouble at the state level which translates to cutting expenses like income for retirees like myself.

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luvmybeetle — Thu, 13 Dec 2018 22:51:51 GMT

@Hooty wrote:
@luvmybeetle wrote:
I received a $7 raise. Whoopie. I haven't received any raise in 3 years.
@luvmybeetle, Wow, I am rich, I got $9.00!

Hey, how about a loan?

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Love my grandkids — Thu, 13 Dec 2018 23:26:44 GMT

I got a raise.

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EastCoastGal — Thu, 13 Dec 2018 23:29:19 GMT

I'm sorry you're not getting a raise @elizabethl123.

I haven't received a letter yet and haven't in 8 years (!!!) but my brother said we're getting a 2.8% raise in January 2019. As I said I've been receiving SS for 8 years and never received a raise in all that time so this will be my first raise. I do remember receiving a letter last year that asked if I thought my SS was not correct I needed to let them know within a certain time frame. I didn't so don't know know if I would have received a raise or not. I will be very surprised to receive one this year! I did hear that Medicare is going up so I don't know if any of us will receive much of a raise! That's a real shame, isn't it??? You work all these years, me...36 years, and we don't receive much raise at all !!!

Luckily, I also receive state retirement for working 36 years for the state. I ended up divorced during that time and never had children. I guess the plan He gave me was to work all my life so I could take care of myself after retiring. Big deal, huh??

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SharkE — Thu, 13 Dec 2018 23:36:49 GMT

SS went up 2.8% increase.

Medicare Part B premium just went up to 135.50 from 134.00

They send out letters to everybody by the end of the yr. Your first

SS check will reflect the increase in Jan of 2019.

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sissel — Thu, 13 Dec 2018 23:56:02 GMT

We got an email with the amount starting Jan 1st. it is a 2.7% I don't understand if you are collecting soc sec & not getting a raise.

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patofl — Fri, 14 Dec 2018 00:09:04 GMT

@sissel wrote:
We got an email with the amount starting Jan 1st. it is a 2.7% I don't understand if you are collecting soc sec & not getting a raise.

I agree, I don't understand people saying they haven't gotten a SS raise for years, when everyone got them.

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Love my grandkids — Fri, 14 Dec 2018 00:17:12 GMT

@patofl Actually, that's not true. Not everyone gets an increase when they are given. I know this for a fact.

I got my form this week showing my increase.

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patofl — Fri, 14 Dec 2018 00:22:47 GMT

@Love my grandkids wrote:
@patofl Actually, that's not true. Not everyone gets an increase when they are given. I know this for a fact.

I got my form this week showing my increase.

Why not?

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Peaches McPhee — Fri, 14 Dec 2018 01:17:19 GMT

Learn something new every day. I thought the SS increase (or no increase, as the case may be) applied to everyone. So, some get an increase and others don't? (And I work in the aging services field!)

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luvmybeetle — Fri, 14 Dec 2018 01:33:49 GMT

@sissel wrote:
We got an email with the amount starting Jan 1st. it is a 2.7% I don't understand if you are collecting soc sec & not getting a raise.

The reason I didn't get a raise in those years is because my medicare supplement went up also. It equaled out.

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Mom2Dogs — Fri, 14 Dec 2018 01:38:01 GMT

@Peaches McPhee...I thought everyone receiving a ss check got the same increase....wonder what qualifies a person for the increase?

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viva923 — Fri, 14 Dec 2018 01:39:03 GMT

i believe my raise was $5.00, most went to Medicare increase.