did everyone in the states who gets soc sec get their crappy 1.5 % raise?

Mine went up a whole $7, from $426 to a whopping $433. I don't know how that amount is supposed to compensate for any of the rising costs of living. I look for bargains at thrift stores, and buy the mark down items at the grocery, and whatever else that I can do to save money, but it is still impossible to make ends meet.
 
CeeCee said:
I have enough for running my house and those expenses that go with it, but my kids help me in everything else.

I bought a new car last year and they split the payments between the two of them so all I have to pay is the insurance. Tney even gave me the down payment. I am truely blessed.
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My daughter is such a blessing to me, too, CeeCee. My car is just an old Ford wagon, but my daughter got me a new battery for it, and even changed the spark plugs, and did some other mechanic work on it. I am so NOT mechanically inclined, so she surely got that fine talent from her dad and not from me; and I am thankful that she is able to do these things for me.
I have known that God gave me one of his angels since the day she was born, but I never considered that one day she would be looking after me, instead of vise-versa.
 
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Counting my blessings here. I got mine with last week's check, and it amounted to about $30. I also get a tiny pension that's fixed so won't ever go up. It's from a job with a unionized company...the only good thing the union ever did for me!...and I only worked there for 6 1/2 years before my job went away. I got lucky and was one of those people who fell through the cracks so I got to go away with it, and they paid me to do it and still gave me the pension. Through some wacky formula determining the pension amount, I qualified as though I'd actually worked there for eight years. Go figure.

Between the SS and the pension, I'm fine. So far:)
 
At the moment.....no finances on here!
i have a small pension from work; I survive; quite well really!
 
In Australia we pay $6.04 per U.S.A. gallon = $1.60 per English Litre. Our food prices & land rates, clothes, are all going up in prices.
I purchased a winter jacket on the NET from the U.K. for $176 Australian posted to my house, the price for an equivalent jacket purchased
In a shop out here was $325 dollars.
 
We pay £1.27 per litre, and that is down from £1.39. About $2.36 Aus

Ok, our country is smaller....
 

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