Receive Your Social Security Benefits Outside The United States

Yes, you can receive your social security benefits outside the United States.  If fact, you can have them deposited into your foreign bank account.  So, fear of not receiving your social security benefit checks should not deter you from your expatriate living dreams and life abroad. 

This concern about not receiving your social security check abroad can be alleviated it you are aware of certain stipulations.   This discussion is primarily for U.S. citizens living abroad, since there are specific regulations that relate to citizens of other countries which are eligible for social security benefits because of their work history in the U.S.  Three important questions for you to consider carefully before making the move follow:  

1.    When are you outside the United States?

2.    How and where can I receive my Social Security benefit checks?

3.    Can I lose my benefits by living abroad? 

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I hardly think I'm walking out on much of a limb there -- after all, the U.S. has not only an incredibly hardworking labor force, but an extremely ingenious one. It's home to some of the most advanced technology in the world, and historically the people have had an undying "can-do" attitude that's helped the country through major wars and major economic disasters.


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If thousands and thousands of U.S. citizens work for Honda and its suppliers, and they all pay taxes here,shop here,pay bills here,raise families here, then you can't tell me all the profits go back to Japan!!

ON CHASE BANK

Chase Bank may have corporate integrity but much like GE MONEY they have issues with fair credit card practices which based on the Fair Credit ACT published by a GREAT HONEST company USAA, they are both in violation of these new laws.  I say we live in the best free country in the world.  Get bit once, take what you have left and leave Chase for better opportunities.  USAA stands by its customers and only charges what they have to, to stay in business.  I am an American fighting in the war in Iraq so you could argue that I am out of touch with the issues but you would be so wrong.  I read the issues late into the wee hours of the night.  What Chase has done to propel itself, sounds like a violation of the FAIR Credit ACT that should have become law by now.  If you have a USAA account the 7 Articles of the ACT were published by the company and minor changes to the company were announced by the president of USAA.  I am not a spokes person for USAA not do I profit from promoting the great job they have done for me and my family but I am very aware of the shady practices of GE MONEY, We Care Credit.  Chase sounds like it was torn from the same cloth.  With GE MONEY WE CARE CREDIT; they have a 17 day cycle.  The idea of WE CARE CREDIT was to provide upfront money for medical bills while insurances like TRI-CARE and MEDICARE meander through paying claims; six weeks to six months at times depending if the medical facility files all the paperwork with all the 'correct' information; anyway I digress.  On a 17 day cycle, I paid a 1000 dollars on the balance and figured that would suffice for that months pay but went on line to check the account in between combat missions and had a 50 dollar fee.  Yeah no kidding, a fee after a 1000 dollar payment for not  making that month's payment although like the Chase patrons are complaining about, I was allowed to make the payment with NO warning that it was TOO EARLY so it did not count for that pay cycle.  Under the new laws according to USAA; that practice is now illegal.  I wonder how many other times based on when I was able to pay in a combat zone my family and I were burned by GE MONEY.  I often wondered why it took so long to pay this worthless company off.  I blamed it on my wife for not paying the bills on time and really got down on her pretty hard; that I will fix when I get home.  It is hard to realize how deep a slimy company like GE can effect right into the fabric of marriage and trust.  I suggest all Chase customers start to write their complaints to  congress and keep good written records of the anomalies.  I wrote my complaint to the Judge Advocate General so as a Senior Military person charged with adjudicating over lesser ranks I would gain legal precedence in this matter.  The representative from JAG filed my concerns for future reference.  I appreciated the gesture.  AS for GE I will not even by a light bulb with that label.  If I have any when I get home I will break it and replace it with Sylvania; that is my right as an American.  I am quite certain that much of GE and the families that work for the company are good honest Americans and knowing the quality of the appliances that they make that have been tested over time; it really broke my heart to see the GE MONEY side of the company do so much damage to the same families that swore by the real products they produced.  Their president of the company expressed in an interview that maybe they should have stayed out of the money business and maintained focus on what made them in the first place.  HOW RIGHT YOUR WERE.   If Chase is engaged in the same practices it is only a matter of time before Congress takes hold of it; sorry it may be too late for some of the consumers but a good class action lawsuit for a few million dollars could raise a few eyebrows.  I will leave that in the hands of the legal system that for once may come to your rescue; they have done it a few times before in similar situations.  For us it would be one of those 100 dollar checks that I never really knew why it was sent

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ok i saw a comment saying microsoft was getting eatin for lunch. ok lets look at the facts here apple services themselves only you cannot buy a toshiba screen and a mac computer and expect them to work. BUT you can buy a toshiba screen and a hp computer and have them work. APPLE only has one memory stick that will work microsoft has thousands. you think apple is so great but your spending 2000 dollars for a mac when i can take that and buy somthing 2 times better thats a PC so go ahead and say apple is better but in the end whos gonna last longer the guy that makes the most now or the guy who works with everyone? apple was about to go into dust but microsoft bought apples stock so they didnt go into bankruptcy.

I've used credit cards for my entire adult life, but I finally had a reality check. Credit is not good.

The smart person who actually would like to retire someday should pay off their cards and NEVER use any again. What's so bad about paying for stuff with real money and avoiding interest and fees and being screwed anyway?

I got over trying to impress other people with massive credit limits years and years ago. Too bad it's taken me this long to pay for my mistakes.

If everybody would live like I'm living now...cash only, no credit...there'd BE no Chase to take advantage of you.

Don't like the sound of that? Okay. Keep getting screwed and quit complaining because you've done it to yourself.

We tried to buy a Ford this week with the "Cash for Clunkers" program, trading in a 2001 Ford Windstar. 

For one, all the new Fords have parts made in Mexico and Japan.  They are NOT 100% American made in any way.  They feel like cheap vehicles, and every sales agent we talked to would tell us about all the "bonus discounts" we would receive, but when we would go to write up the contract, they would refuse to put in the promised discounts (such as customer loyalty, cash discount, military discount, etc.). 

One sales agent even told us "the most I can give you back is $1,200, but I'm only going to deduct $500 from the sales price. 

What?  So you can discount it 1,200, but I'm not allowed it for what reason?  We got up and walked out.  I'll keep my old van and drive it honestly.  I will not deal with a dishonest company.   When I asked why she said we qualified for discount over the phone, but not in person, she said "we say anything to get the customer in the door".  Enough said.  If "survival is job one", then lying to survive won't keep you there.  I'll buy another Toyota or Honda (which are fully made in the USA, despite the name on the bumper) than deal with a company that will outright lie to customers.  

Go to the dealers and check the stickers on the windows yourself.  You'll be surprised at where "American made" cars are really made, and where "Japanese made" cars are made.  Most of the foreign labels are more American made than American labels.