Have You Gotten Your Social Security Statement For 2024?

[againstthegrain]

Not everyone is savvy at investing or even good at saving. If so, there wouldn't be so many people who don't even have a $10,000 emergency fund and are so ill (un)prepared for retirement. I like the warning letter idea though.

The money that wasn't paid into SS probably went into the retirement benefits of the other entity so likely there is somewhere near a 1:1 tradeoff and no "excess" money to be saved or invested anyway.

 

[Brookswood]

I have my statement. it came pretty early. Thanks to higher interest rates on savings it looks like iI might pay taxes on my SS earnings this year. That’s a nice feeling.

 

[OneEyedDiva]

My SSA end of year IRS Statement is in my mailbox.
I signed up for USPS Informed Delivery about a year ago- and they email me photos of my mail, every morning, that will be in my rural mail box, which is down a slope about 150 feet from my home.

If the photo mail does not look too important, and the weather is bad I just wait to get my mail the next day....and throw away most of it!

and @Colleen I have informed delivery too, but when I signed in to check my mail over the weekend, it said that page was unavailable but today the mail is showing up. I notice certain things like Costco's sale brochure do not show up there. I also notice they are now pushing receiving informed delivery by email. I don't want to do that.

Colleen, I don't know if they'll send your husband's statement to you if you haven't requested it. The person or system that sends out the statements is not likely to be the same one you notified about his passing.