Forty quarters is the minimum to qualify for Social Security. Almost
everyone pays in longer than forty quarters. What you get paid when
you draw Social Security is not easy to calculate. IIRC it depends on
how much you earned in your highest forty YEARS ( not quarters ) with
a factor for when those years were, and the credit varies with the
amount. So a person that earned say $30,000 a year gets 75% of of
what a person that earned $60,000 a year. Not the
correct figures, but the general idea.


Civil Servents were not in the system for a long time and some are
still not in it,but all the newer civil servents have to contribute to
Social Security. About the only people that get out of it are in
Congress.

The military contribute to Social Security. Started while I was in
the Service in the late 50's.

Dan

"Harold & Susan Vordos" wrote in message



One of the lessons that may be learned here is the fact that I made mention
of having paid in MORE than the required 40 quarters. I have no way of
knowing, nor is it my business to know, if or why this person has or has not
paid his "dues" as is required. Yes, it's a sad thing that he may be
denied SS, but it would also be a tragedy if they handed it out to those
that held jobs by which they may have been exempt, limiting or eliminating
their contributions. You know, like working for the government? Damn it,
I earned my SS, in spite of the fact that I was not a willing participant.
The key word here is having paid in long enough.

good old LaVar had more than
enough time to make a large brass name plate for the desk of one of the
Generals, who also wasn't required to pay into the SS system.


Harold