This blew me away

While on the phone with SS this week we discovered my wife will receive several hundred dollars a month in benefits even though she’s never made any contributions. I’m still in disbelief.

We’re both retired teachers in Ohio and I did contribute to SS for many years before becoming a teacher. So I get a small check each month from SS and because my wife has no SS and just a pension she gets reduced benefit based on my earnings. That’s crazy! Oh it gets better. Congress passed and made law the social security reduction act which means we both will get a raise when they figure out the funding. Who knew?