jello wrote:

If you die with money left it should go to the destination of your choice. .

webecreekin wrote:

Back to the OP's initial comments, one doesn't get benefits for the first month or the last month. That is to say, when you apply for social security benefits, your benefit checks start the month after the birth date of eligibility (unless you are born on the first of the month--different rules). In the case of the last month, you don't receive social security benefits the month you die--whether you die on the first day of the month or the last day of the month. My father died late in the month and we had to return that month's benefit payment.

Mac1 wrote:


By the same rule then, if you use up what you put in before you die, then the Gov. stops paying you. I have been drawing SS for 9 years and I withdrew what I put in after about 5 years.
I like the system just as it is and hope it keeps paying at least till me and the wife are gone.

houtrz wrote:

Liriope, I"m not so sure your right about the free care for all. That might be at some places or county hospitals. My mother inlaw, who is a mexican woman went to our local hospital knowing she had a tumor that was growing inside her but left it be because she had no insurance. She retired from the county but for some reason she's not covered by their insurance. Anyways the hospital point blank asked her if she was an illegal and she said no that she was born here. The hospital person said there was nothing they could do but if she was an illegal, they had a plan to treat her. I nearly fell over and the government wants to know why people are so whizzzzed off all the time.
Lets send a billion dollars to Goergia last month but the Vets here are left out in the pasture. Will never understand it.

dave Stringham wrote:

Pretty amazing........many have said yes its happened to them, many have said they cant do that you get paid in arears, some have said it never happened to their friends and families, a few quoted the law and said they have the right(no payment first and last month)..........kind of makes you wonder if everyone is dealing with the same organization

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Social Security benefits are not pro-rated. To be entitled to a Social Security benefit check for a given month, the person must be alive the entire month. No benefit is payable for the month of death.

This provision has been in the law since 1939 and can be changed only by an amendment to the Social Security Act. The legislative history of this provision does not show why benefits are not payable for the month of death. However, the provision complements the provision of the law that allows us to pay survivors benefits for the entire month of death.

You can return the check to your local Social Security office. If the payment is made by direct depost, the U.S. Treasury will automatically debit the bank account.