Nixon - did her spouse contribute into the system? If so, she is likely collecting on the earnings of her spouse.

Also, if a person dies and has school age children, the children are entitled to benefits until they reach 18. If the surviving spouse is under retirement age, they collect survivor benefits until the youngest is 16 (if I remember correctly. Speaking from experience here) If the child is still in High School when they turn 18, at that point the benefits are paid directly to the child until they are out of High School.

Once upon a time, these benefits were paid to children through college age.

Well, Eberly, you could always adjust your lifestyle to be able to live solely on the SS income. ;) At your income level (paying the max) I hope you are prepared to learn that 85% of your future SS income will be taxable. Thanks Ronnie!

Hey OneNut - How about these people, killed by their own government?

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@ #23 Now name all the service members that were killed in the current war or (whatever you Trumper Lumpers are calling it) with Iran. Are you concerned about them too?

To all of those complaining, imagine all the people who contributed to the system, but died before they could collect anything. Be grateful you are still alive to collect.

OneNut once again provides themself as an example of "Better to be silent and thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubt".

@7 Probably never touched a real ---- either.

Surely at some point he held Don Jr and Eric when they were infants.

Of course, Mr Know It All, you can always Google MN absentee/mail ballot instructions or go the the MN Sec'y of state to confirm.

#80 OneNut "Would ballots be processed if people DIDN'T fill in that information? Prolly"

No, they would not you know nothing, ignorant foreigner. They would be contacted with the opportunity to correct any errors. If they chose not to correct the errors, THEN the ballot would not be processed. If the errors were corrected to meet the requirements, THEN the ballot is processed.

Bill, re your post 42 you wrote:

"The information on their request would be checked against their voter registration record, and their eligibility would be verified before the ballot is mailed."

When I voted by mail during Covid, my ballot was placed inside an envelope, which I then sealed. On that envelope, I could enter either my driver's license # or the last 4 digits of my SS# so my voter eligibility could be confirmed BEFORE the ballot was processed. I entered my choice, signed it (when I vote in person I have to sign the line next to my name on the voter roll), put it in another envelope, which I then sealed. I then put that envelope into another envelope to mail it to the county courthouse to be processed.

I could follow the processing of my ballot online. I mailed it on a Friday, it was received on Saturday and processed on Monday.

I am sure that every state follows a similar procedure for mail in ballots.

Castro was released by TX Gov Abbott last week, after refusing to extradite him to MN to face the charges the state of MN brought against him for the same incident. He turned himself in after the Feds charged him.

How convenient the Feds charge him now, just days after Abbott refused to extradite him back to MN from Texas to face the state charges filed.

How convenient the Feds charge him now, just days after Abbott refused to extradite him back to MN from Texas to face the state charges filed.

Yeah, I heard them called "pervert glasses." Apt, no?

#8 Not mean, it falls under the umbrella of they FAFO. Oh well ... they did it to themselves.

Hey there OneNut, ya think maybe the overtime pay for the police due to the ICE invasion isn't a major contributor to the situation here? Mr. Thinks He Knows It All fails again. He thinks the mayors should have planned in 2025 for the Federal Government to come in and invade their cities in 2026. What a Maroon.

She is leaving because Todd Blanche's memo that the executive privilege that shields White House advisors now extends to private citizens who advise the president.

What I am hearing is that the Republicans are financing ads supporting the worst D candidates, but the D's have figured it out and voted accordingly. That is one of the reasons why Angie Craig lost in MN.

I am laughing about this. Lisa Demuth is a smarmy, loathsome creature. She tried to steal the MN Speaker of the House position from Melissa Hortman. It took a while for the elections to be settled on a 50-50 party split, and they ended up sharing the position. She orchestrated the Nick Shirley visits to the daycare centers in order to knock Walz out of the race. But she had a better chance against Walz than she does against Klobuchar. Congrats, Lisa, for screwing yourself also in the process of screwing Walz.

Hey ONENUT, tell me what you understand about what I understand. This should be good.

What an arrogant foreigner you are.

The writer obviously never met a drug addict in his life and has no idea that unless that addict has decided for themselves that they want out of that life, they aren't leaving it. Stupid and naive to think that dangling a carrot would change their desire for drugs. If it was that easy, there would be no addicts.

I was born in the 50's, came of age in the 70's. I remember when I came of age single women could not open a credit card unless they had a man, such as father or brother, co-sign on the account.

Good grief gang. You should have taken my hint to close him down when I told him goodnight. It wasn't an invitation to tag team him. I'll make myself more clear in the future.

You doubt the red state favoritism thing with the PPE? They did it at the very beginning of covid. Look what he is doing right now with disaster relief. It is a pattern with him.

Goodnight Bill.

Yes, the mail votes posts are amusing. I did mail in at the beginning of covid. Hate to break it to BJ Boi, but I was able to trace my vote thru the system from home via computer. I mailed it on Friday, it was received on Saturday and run through the machine on Monday.

But he will never believe me anyway. lalalalalalala, that's our Bill. LOL