81-Year-Old Waitress in US Can't Retire, Struggles With $910 Social Security

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81-Year-Old Waitress in US Can't Retire, Struggles With $910 Social Security

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I hate these "and then people pitched in to help" stories. The only story here is the system failed her. Just like it's going to for many of us.
- The part that is truly frustrating is that, the same people who will empty their pockets for (often dubious) charities, will cry about taxes and smear social programs (targeting the same exact issues) as "handouts".
  The cognitive dissonance is unreal.
  
  Absolutely. Like the church goers who donate to a church program and vote against social programs.
- I hate these “and then people pitched in to help” stories.
  These are known as "feel-good feel-bad" stories.
  https://thinkprogress.org/do-the-impossible-never-complain-live-the-dream-the-dark-morals-of-todays-feel-good-stories-63b38b4a4953/
- And then we did social welfare because we hate democrats.
i seen young people go on disability after working very few years get more than that from SSA, i guess she was homemaker most of her life? still should get more than that under current standards, let alone the better standards we would like to see
- It's kind of crazy to think how much value a homemaker creates, and then can be left with nothing to retire depending on personal circumstances.
  
  "Homemakers" have their payments tied to their spouse's income to avoid this exact scenario. Including if they got divorced.
  The reality is that SS was not designed to be a sole retirement income.
  
  And the people they’ve kept a home for often then go on to be caretakers for them, thus completing the cycle of people we rely on the most while providing the least.

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