HoneyNut
Senior Member
I know I am many many months late to understand this subject (assuming I do, which maybe not). The big corporation I work for cheated its employees out of our 401k match (so basically chopped 3% of our pay), not because the company was going to lose money, but just because it wasn't going to meet the planned amount of profit for the year. I have been so angry about this for months, but now I find out that the CARES act also did this:
"All employers (including government entities) may defer the deposit and payment of the employer's share of Social Security tax."
So not only are profitable corporations being allowed to cheat employees out of 401k matches, but they also are cheating everyone out of funding social security in a timely way.
If my 401k match had been paid, I would have been getting good prices in the stock market, and although I don't know how the social security funds are invested, I would think they would have been able to be invest at more advantageous prices too.
I don't have any trouble with giving breaks to companies or people that are suffering from the pandemic, but I know my division at work got extra contracts because of the pandemic and we exceeded our division's financial goals.
So while our politicians whine about giving tax credit checks to us because it is such a huge cost and they keep wanting to limit who qualifies, they on the other hand apparently have no problem with giving huge breaks to companies without requiring ANY level of need.
Who wants to bet that in a few months the politicians will be saying we need to reduce social security payments/get rid of SS because "somehow" the program isn't bringing in enough funds. And they will say it is all the fault of old people for living too long!
"All employers (including government entities) may defer the deposit and payment of the employer's share of Social Security tax."
So not only are profitable corporations being allowed to cheat employees out of 401k matches, but they also are cheating everyone out of funding social security in a timely way.
If my 401k match had been paid, I would have been getting good prices in the stock market, and although I don't know how the social security funds are invested, I would think they would have been able to be invest at more advantageous prices too.
I don't have any trouble with giving breaks to companies or people that are suffering from the pandemic, but I know my division at work got extra contracts because of the pandemic and we exceeded our division's financial goals.
So while our politicians whine about giving tax credit checks to us because it is such a huge cost and they keep wanting to limit who qualifies, they on the other hand apparently have no problem with giving huge breaks to companies without requiring ANY level of need.
Who wants to bet that in a few months the politicians will be saying we need to reduce social security payments/get rid of SS because "somehow" the program isn't bringing in enough funds. And they will say it is all the fault of old people for living too long!