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Originally Posted by jdulej
Another source of inflow to SS and Medicare is non-citizen workers. Be they legal or illegal, if they have a legit job in the US, they (and the company they work for) pay into the funds. Few will ever see any of it. Certainly not the illegal ones, and the rules for legal (non green-card holders, with just a work visa) are pretty strict as I recall. Admittedly I have not checked the rules since I retired 8 years ago.
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Yup. All those "illegals with fake social security numbers" who use their fake IDs to get legitimate jobs - have social security taxes deducted from their paychecks. That money goes into SS and they'll never see a dime of it.
And MOST non-citizen workers who are here totally legally, pay in to SS out of their paychecks, and also will never see a dime of it.
There were also states where teachers and other municipal employees had pensions and were considered "exempt" - meaning, they would not get any social security benefits when they retired because their municipality paid their pension. But - they still had social security taxes deducted from their paychecks. I don't know if any states still do that, but some used to.