Is Supplemental Security Income the same thing as Social Security?

Hugo Pittari: No totally different animals. SSI is for people with disabilities or are unable to work at gainful employment....Social Security is a ponzi scheme to give the tax payers a false sense of security for their future retirement

Virgil Menefee: This Site Might Help You.RE:Is Supplemental Security Income the same thing as Social Security?Is Supplemental Security Income the same thing as Social Security for Retirees and/or Widowed People?...Show more

Maynard Phoubandith: SSI is administrated by the Social Security Administration, but it is funded out of the general taxpayer fund, not through FICA (SS) payroll taxes or the SS trust fund. Social Security for retired people, and SSDI for disabled people can only be collected by people who paid FICA taxes and earned work credits. It is an insurance, and benefits are based on how much you paid into it. http://www.ssa.gov/ssi/...Show more

Maritza Ebanks: You do not receive it, your mother does. Check n! o.

German Thal: SSI is for people who are very low income and in certain category like disabled, minor, pregnant, new immigrant, and others. It is a form of welfare even though the money comes from the Social Security Admin. Here is a list of the many benefits under the SSA. If someone is over 66 and their Social Security benefit is a certain percentage below the federal poverty baseline, that person can qualify to get SSI in addition to retiree SS.• Each divorced spouse of over 10 years marriage receive spousal benefits after age 60 or 50 if disabled.• Each child of each divorced spouse from each marriage of over 10 years gets benefits to age 18.• Each child of a disabled parent on SSD or SSI also receives disability benefits• Children born with a permanent mental or physical disability get benefits from SSD or SSI• Each child of each deceased parent receives survivor benefits to age 18 or 19• Legal low income senior emigrants who have not worked in the ! U.S. get SSI• Low income Families can get SSI • Pregnant ! girls and women of low income get SSI• Seniors whose Social Security is 200% below federal poverty guideline receive SSI and SS• Adults under age 65 get for SSI if disabled short-term• Adults under age 65 get SSDI if disabled long-term • Each child can get permanent survivor benefits from deceased parent if child was disabled before age 22 and remains disabled. • Every surviving spouse of a marriage of over 10 years is entitled to death benefits.• Every child who's parent is deceased is entitled to survivor benefits to age 18 or 19 if in high school....Show more

Dominic Sciancalepore: No, Social Security was meant as a supplement for a person in their senior years. SSI is a gubment hog trough for people with made up illnesses, like ADD, ADHD and so on. It is mostly for people who are too fat, lazy, stupid and generally unmotivated to get a job. They would rather wait at the mailbox for their gubment check along with their food stamps, section 8 vouchers a! nd medicaid cards.SSI is part and parcel, the reason Social Security is the train wreck it is today. We actually have illegal beaners drawing SSI from US taxpayers.....real hope and change, huh?...Show more

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