LETTER: Don’t confuse Social Security with SSI benefits
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Don’t confuse Social Security with SSI benefits
I keep seeing articles that confuse Social Security benefits with Supplemental Security Income (SSI) benefits.
They are not the same. Social Security is earned by a lifetime of work, while SSI, although managed by the Social Security Administration, is a welfare program requiring nothing to “earn” that benefit. Social Security is not a handout. Social Security recipients paid a withholding tax as long as they worked on the first $125,000 earned.
Some of us actually must pay income tax on that benefit, even though we were taxed on that money when we worked. No one on SSI is required to pay income tax.
George Dawes
Washington