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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think I would stop the ability to claim SS if you've never paid in.  [/quote]
Who gets SS if they don't pay in? I thought you had to have 40 quarters of earning, and the benefit is figured in your top 35 years.[/quote]
DH grandma got SS for decades after her husband died. She never worked a job a day in her life. I'm certain she was not a citizen but drew a check for almost 50 years.[/quote]

Another solution is to get rid of SS and let your parents move in with you. Wonder if obnoxious PP is down with that.[/quote]
Actually she lived with one daughter in Greece most of the year and another daughter in Silver Spring the rest of the time. So, yeah... Her family was down with that.[/quote]

But she didn't live with you? Why is that? Well OK, but I think I can hear the shrieks of anguish starting already from other families around the country. I know plenty of people who would gladly pay SS taxes to keep their parents in separate living arrangements.[/quote]
She didn't live with me because she died while DH (and most of her grandchildren) were still in college. I'm not sure the dorms at Hopkins would accommodate his elderly grandmother living with him. Also, she had 12 children, all of whom would have been happy to have her live with them. She didn't lack any family to care for her and she never went to a nursing home. Her husband died of pancreatic cancer as a relatively young man. My MIL lives with my SIL most of the time and she stays with us during the summer when my son is home and available to help her out. My FIL died in November, rather suddenly. My parents are able-bodied at the moment, but we have an apartment for them set up in our home so they can use it when the time comes. [/quote]

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