Speaker 1: D Y.
Speaker 2: I'm bas Boston Radio.
Speaker 3: All right, we have one caller hanging over from last hour.
Speaker 3: I want to talk about soci security. We will talk
Speaker 3: tomorrow night with Jim Roosevelt, attorney James Roosevelt, who is
Speaker 3: a fixture here in New England, and he, of course
Speaker 3: is the well you may not know that he's a
Speaker 3: grandson of Franklin, Ellen and Roosevelt. So if you want
Speaker 3: to keep this conversation going, fine, If not, we're going
Speaker 3: to move on right after Jack down on the cave.
Speaker 3: Hi Jack, Thanks for.
Speaker 4: Calling in, Hey Dan.
Speaker 5: Over the years, I have sensed that the argument against
Speaker 5: Social Security by the financial gurus call him if you will, yes,
Speaker 5: was that if everyone's had put their Social Security contributions
Speaker 5: into an indexed fund or some type of a managed
Speaker 5: correct market, you'd be much better off than you are
Speaker 5: today waiting for that check to come in the mail.
Speaker 5: That's correct, which is yeah. And so in light of that,
Speaker 5: I want to bring up a Treasury Secretary John Snow
Speaker 5: under the Bush administration GW he brought out an idea
Speaker 5: I thought deserved immense focus, and that was that for
Speaker 5: every child born in the United States, that the government
Speaker 5: would put two thousand dollars per year into that individual's
Speaker 5: account up until the age of eighteen and would stop,
Speaker 5: and that economic little fund would grow as our economy
Speaker 5: grows and prospers over the decades, and that at the
Speaker 5: time that that individual would retire, let's say at sixty five,
Speaker 5: that fund would be worth over a million dollars using
Speaker 5: past historical performances. That's correct, And I think what we're
Speaker 5: really looking at here, I think is the lack of
Speaker 5: financial literacy. You know, Dan, the financial markets and the
Speaker 5: machine that we all serve and live under is so
Speaker 5: complex and so sophisticated that the financial literacy to be
Speaker 5: able to navigate one's life through this world that we're
Speaker 5: living in. It really needs to be addressed. And we
Speaker 5: need to everyone needs a crash course on what's happening.
Speaker 5: And you know, we're all sort of living under the
Speaker 5: age old economic models of the past, but obviously we're
Speaker 5: entering a new economic era. The crypto financial inventiveness that's
Speaker 5: going on, I think that needs to be looked at,
Speaker 5: and I think the young people coming up are definitely
Speaker 5: going to be looking at that. So I just to
Speaker 5: kind of encapsulate my argument is that the entire financial model,
Speaker 5: top to bottom, beginning to end. A DIZA needs to
Speaker 5: be rehashed and reconfigured for the future, or we are
Speaker 5: going to end up in a dystopian future that you
Speaker 5: brought that you brought them with one of your earlier guests,
Speaker 5: and I am glad that you do that. I find
Speaker 5: very few people are even remotely aware of what the
Speaker 5: future of work money when we when Elon I, I've
Speaker 5: got a pdf. I'll try to send you. Uh it
Speaker 5: just recently came out, but Elon is it's a compilation
Speaker 5: of about intelligent AI driven robotics. Oh and so by
Speaker 5: twenty forty, Elon Musk estimates we're going to have ten
Speaker 5: billion robots that are all connected with AI and their
Speaker 5: dexterity their abilities.
Speaker 3: Well, again, that's what kind of takes me down another
Speaker 3: path here, Jack, and I appreciate that obviously things are changing,
Speaker 3: but I want to go back to your point. I
Speaker 3: want to go back to your original point, and that
Speaker 3: is that for many, many years, people said, hey, give
Speaker 3: people the option put their money in a private account,
Speaker 3: and they'll do better in a private account, put in
Speaker 3: some sort of IRA money fund or something like that.
Speaker 3: But the problem is if you opt if you had
Speaker 3: these people opt out of the system, and if those
Speaker 3: markets crashed at some point the government said, well, how
Speaker 3: are we going to take care of those people? So look,
Speaker 3: all of us who have worked, let me finish jack
Speaker 3: if you don't mind. All of us who have worked
Speaker 3: a long time have put hundreds of thousands of dollars,
Speaker 3: hundreds of thousands of dollars into Social Security and have
Speaker 3: put a lot of money also, not quite as much.
Speaker 3: I'm looking at my numbers right now, about half a
Speaker 3: couple of hundred thousand dollars in Medicare. So I've paid
Speaker 3: a lot of Social Security taxes in Medicare taxes. It's
Speaker 3: going to take me some time to recoup that money.
Speaker 3: But you know, it's it's kind of part of the
Speaker 3: social contract. And I wished I had an opportunity to
Speaker 3: have probably invested my own money personally from the age
Speaker 3: of twenty one when I started to earn money, or
Speaker 3: age of twenty two or twenty three when I really
Speaker 3: started to earn money. But that option wasn't there. And
Speaker 3: that's the system we have. Now. Let's see if they
Speaker 3: can clean it up, Let's see if they can make
Speaker 3: it more effective. More efficient, and in terms of the
Speaker 3: whole question about twelve billion, twelve million robots or whatever,
Speaker 3: I'm not even sure I want to be around for that,
Speaker 3: be honest. I mean really, I remember. I'm old enough
Speaker 3: to remember the Jetsons, one of the cartoons from the sixties,
Speaker 3: and they had people driving to work in flying cars,
Speaker 3: and they were people futurists at the time said, well,
Speaker 3: by the nineteen nineties, we won't have to drive on roads.
Speaker 3: We'll have cars that fly through the air. Didn't quite happen.
Speaker 3: You know, I believe it when I say.
Speaker 5: It, It is happening.
Speaker 6: You can.
Speaker 5: They have drones powerful enough to lift a person and
Speaker 5: take them where they want to go. Check it out.
Speaker 5: It's they happen.
Speaker 4: It's now, and there's so much.
Speaker 3: Well, when they start lifting people in drones and flying them,
Speaker 3: you know, communing distances, let's say from the Cape to Boston,
Speaker 3: and they are doing that, let me know. Okay, Oh,
Speaker 3: they're having trouble figuring out how they get a drone
Speaker 3: to carry a package that wastes five pounds, never mind
Speaker 3: someone that weighs one hundred and fifty or one hundred
Speaker 3: and eighty or two hundred pounds. Uh, never I've driven
Speaker 3: in one of those those of driverless cars. I was
Speaker 3: in San Francisco in January and my daughter insisted that
Speaker 3: she and her husband and I get in the car.
Speaker 3: I had a ball. I kept asking them. I played
Speaker 3: the role of the dumb dumb old guy said where's
Speaker 3: the driver? And you know, my daughter said, Dad, we're
Speaker 3: in a car without a driver. I said, really, really,
Speaker 3: you know, it was no big deal. It was no
Speaker 3: big deal. I could see that. But when we have
Speaker 3: a three hundred thousand non driverless cars, I should say
Speaker 3: on the road in the major American cities, let's see
Speaker 3: how that works out.
Speaker 5: It'll work out better. Actually, because they're all being community still,
Speaker 5: all be in touch with it.
Speaker 3: We just we just had we just had a plane
Speaker 3: and a helicopter collide going into Reagan Airport in sixty eight.
Speaker 3: Sixty seven people are dead as a result. I have
Speaker 3: a lot of this stuff that you do. Okay, that's
Speaker 3: all you might be right.
Speaker 5: I've looked at that a lot, and a I would
Speaker 5: have totally picked that up. A I would have been
Speaker 5: on that in me instantly. Never would have happened if
Speaker 5: they But here we have human controllers trying with their
Speaker 5: eyes to see the blinking lights of this plane in
Speaker 5: that plane and looking through you know, okay, I would
Speaker 5: have would.
Speaker 4: Have been on.
Speaker 3: I don't think those I don't think they will looking
Speaker 3: through binoculars at at nine o'clock at night. Right.
Speaker 5: Well, I'm just.
Speaker 3: If they should have they should have been they should
Speaker 3: have had night scopes if they were. But look whatever,
Speaker 3: ye Jack, Jack, I gotta go. I gotta look at you.
Speaker 3: Held all a long time and I've given you eight minutes.
Speaker 3: I gotta keep rolling here because if they don't, I'm
Speaker 3: going to get fired and then I'll they'll have a
Speaker 3: robot who will replace me as a talk show host.
Speaker 7: And the robot will say we will be back in
Speaker 7: a couple of minutes.
Speaker 3: After the brief messages. If you get more, okay, begs Jack,
Speaker 3: fact to you soon, good night. I will stick with this.
Speaker 3: I got san Die, Connecticut, Nancy and Peabody. I'll be
Speaker 3: more than happy to take this at the bottom of
Speaker 3: the hour, maybe a little longer. I do have one
Speaker 3: other topic I need to get to tonight, and I
Speaker 3: promise I will no later than eleven o'clock. We'll be
Speaker 3: back on Nightside right after.
Speaker 2: This it's Night Side with Boston's News Radio.
Speaker 3: By the way, not every executive order that Donald Trump
Speaker 3: has signed I want to criticize. He signed one today
Speaker 3: with Kid Rock in the Oval Office and the protecting
Speaker 3: Fans from exploitative ticket scalping and reforming the US Live
Speaker 3: Entertainment ticketing Industry. Trump signed the directive in the Oval
Speaker 3: Office with singer Kid Rock standing next to him in
Speaker 3: a patriotic American flag themed outfit. Kid Rock said ticket
Speaker 3: scalpers use of bots to buy large numbers of tickets
Speaker 3: at face value and then selling them for a profit
Speaker 3: is a big problem in the industry. I want the
Speaker 3: fans to have fair ticket prices, Kid Rock said, adding
Speaker 3: that legislation was eventually needed to cap ticket prices. The
Speaker 3: ordered direct's Treasury Secretary Scott Bessett and US Attorney General
Speaker 3: Pambondi to ensure that ticket scalpers are in full compliance
Speaker 3: with the tax Collecting Internal Revenue Service and other applicable law.
Speaker 3: A White House fact sheet said. It also orders the
Speaker 3: Federal Trade Commission to work with the US Attorney to
Speaker 3: ensure the competition laws are appropriately enforced in the concert
Speaker 3: and entertainment industry. According to a fact sheet. The Justice
Speaker 3: Department and dozens of state attorneys general sued Live Nation
Speaker 3: Entertainment and its ticket scalping unit ticketmax Master last year
Speaker 3: for allegedly monopolizing markets across the live concert industry in
Speaker 3: ways that hurts artists and fans Inuary. In January, US
Speaker 3: senators and saled Live Nation Entertainment lack of transparency and
Speaker 3: inability to block bought purchases of tickets, and a hearing
Speaker 3: call there for a major fiasco involving ticket sales for
Speaker 3: a tailor Swift concert tour. Anyway, Ticketmaster, which has been
Speaker 3: unpopular with fans for years, drew fresh heat from US
Speaker 3: lawmakers over Howard handled ticket sales last fall for Swift's
Speaker 3: errors tour, her first in five years. Experts say Ticketmaster
Speaker 3: commands more than a seventy percent market share of primary
Speaker 3: ticket services from major US concert venues. The fact sheets
Speaker 3: singled out bought sales in particular. So that's something that
Speaker 3: I think most of us can agree with the President's side.
Speaker 3: A good executive order. Let me go to Sandy in Connecticut. Sandy,
Speaker 3: you are next on nightside. Welcome Hi, Sandy.
Speaker 5: How are you fire?
Speaker 8: A pretty good man? Interesting topic? Always makes me think
Speaker 8: about what social Security is and how I'm so glad
Speaker 8: that we have it. Now. I'm a little confused because
Speaker 8: I've been in social security for five years now. I
Speaker 8: worked forty seven years and when you started the show someone,
Speaker 8: I think it was your first or second call. I
Speaker 8: was a man who said he had to go to
Speaker 8: the office. Now is that a requirement for everyone? I
Speaker 8: was a little confused if I have to go, because
Speaker 8: the first time I went, I applied. I went into
Speaker 8: an office in Connecticut near my home, and they I
Speaker 8: gave them the documents and everything was verified and I
Speaker 8: started receiving payments.
Speaker 3: I think you're all said, I'll ask you. I'll ask
Speaker 3: you a simple question. Do you have Do you have
Speaker 3: a Social Security account on your computer? In other words,
Speaker 3: if you wanted.
Speaker 5: To no, no, no, do not.
Speaker 3: Well, what I would suggest you do, in my opinion,
Speaker 3: would be to go to log in dot CoV H
Speaker 3: and try to set up an account. You I'm sure
Speaker 3: have the ability to set up an account. Uh, if
Speaker 3: you have gone through the process of verifying you, you
Speaker 3: probably would be smart. And as a matter of fact,
Speaker 3: people even who aren't yet on so scurity would be
Speaker 3: smart to set up this government account. Now you can
Speaker 3: if you're having trouble doing it, since you're receiving so
Speaker 3: security checks. My suspicion is that you'll and you and
Speaker 3: you went in and identified yourself and all of that. Yeah,
Speaker 3: what they will do is give you an opportunity to
Speaker 3: set up the account, I believe by using your email
Speaker 3: and you would create a password, okay, and then you
Speaker 3: would probably have to put in your your cell phone
Speaker 3: number or something like that to verify who you are.
Speaker 3: And then every time you signed in, they would have
Speaker 3: what's called two two party or identification where have you ever.
Speaker 3: So that's the whole thing. So what I did with that,
Speaker 3: what I did with Rick from Dover, is I logged
Speaker 3: in to my my account, which which I have, and
Speaker 3: within a few seconds I was into my account and
Speaker 3: I just was able to print her out, print out
Speaker 3: my lifetime earnings and how much money I paid into
Speaker 3: Social Security and and and into Medicare. And so if
Speaker 3: you have a problem with that, one of our other
Speaker 3: callers said, if there's not a Social Security office near you,
Speaker 3: And by the way, they have decided to keep the
Speaker 3: Social Security offices open, okay. Social Security Administration had announced
Speaker 3: that it is delaying implementation of its new identification verification
Speaker 3: rules for new applicants for retirement benefit until April fourteenth,
Speaker 3: the two week delay. But that's not you. You have
Speaker 3: your SO Security, You get your check, Yeah, and you
Speaker 3: should be fine. And do you do you have a
Speaker 3: Social Security office near you?
Speaker 5: Yeah? Very near.
Speaker 8: But the thing is, I get my check deposited every month,
Speaker 8: so I didn't get any letter. I'm offset. I think
Speaker 8: I don't think.
Speaker 3: I don't think you have anything. I don't think you
Speaker 3: have anything to worry about. Okay, but if you wanted
Speaker 3: to be you know, I don't work for SO Security.
Speaker 3: If you wanted to just double check, I would suggest
Speaker 3: you how far away is your SO Security office? How
Speaker 3: far away?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 5: Five miles?
Speaker 3: I think I'd take a ride by there someday. I'd
Speaker 3: bring a couple of pieces of identification, a driver's license,
Speaker 3: a p AS for your birth certificates. Yea and and
Speaker 3: and you're in Connecticut. I'm sure that that help you out.
Speaker 3: And you'd if you're not already set up, I'm sure
Speaker 3: they'll set you up and you'll never have to do
Speaker 3: it again.
Speaker 8: Okay, Yeah, and you know what to dan something? I
Speaker 8: maybe I missed because I listen to you almost every night.
Speaker 8: Uh So, there's a lot of fraud and social security
Speaker 8: with people working and collecting. I read a lot of it,
Speaker 8: right Whenever I see a social security item, I read it.
Speaker 8: And there's so many cheaters out there.
Speaker 6: Right.
Speaker 3: Well, I think that there's an effort to get rid
Speaker 3: of the cheaters. But there's a lot of people who
Speaker 3: now are saying, oh, they're going to not get rid
Speaker 3: of the cheaters, but they're going to knock off people
Speaker 3: like Dan and Sandy from Social Security. That I do
Speaker 3: not believe that's going to happen. Or the people saying well,
Speaker 3: they're going to cut back, they're not going to cut
Speaker 3: back the amount of money. Every year we get a
Speaker 3: cost of living increase in our so a lot of
Speaker 3: people with politically, you're trying to panic people. Let's see
Speaker 3: what happens.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I think you know, because so many elderly people
Speaker 8: actually from years ago just rely on that as their
Speaker 8: main source of income. So it makes them worry more.
Speaker 8: And there's nothing like making an eighty year old worry
Speaker 8: where his money he's gonna is he gonna have enough?
Speaker 5: Quality?
Speaker 3: But also but also again in this article by Sean
Speaker 3: Murphy and The Boston Globe Today. He asks he has
Speaker 3: questions and answers and how much misinformation is out there
Speaker 3: about SO security? Sean writes, probably a lot. A slightly
Speaker 3: panicked reader wrote to me with a link for a
Speaker 3: nonprofit website that said SOB Security beneficiaries must verify their
Speaker 3: identity in person or continue to continue receiving payments. Is
Speaker 3: it true for all of us, including our recipients, the
Speaker 3: reader asked, no, Sean wrote, I suspect that website truly
Speaker 3: was fear mongering to boost traffic and charge more for
Speaker 3: the ads itsels. I think what will happen is the fraudsters,
Speaker 3: the professional fraudsters, are going to start calling people like
Speaker 3: you and me and say, you know you're so scurty.
Speaker 7: Benefit check is in jeopardy, and if you don't give
Speaker 7: us your SO Security number and your birthday, we won't
Speaker 7: be able to verify that your check is coming to
Speaker 7: you next week.
Speaker 3: And you know what, a lot of people will fall
Speaker 3: for that. So I don't want people to fall for that.
Speaker 3: If someone calls you and says they're calling from the
Speaker 3: Social Security Office, I don't think anyone from the SO
Speaker 3: Security Office is going to call you so please, And
Speaker 3: this isn't for you, Sandy, but it's for everyone. If
Speaker 3: you get one of these phone calls in which they're saying, well,
Speaker 3: could you please confirm your SO security number for us,
Speaker 3: and at that point say to them, why did you
Speaker 3: tell me what? If you're the Social Security you must
Speaker 3: know my social security number, tell me what you got
Speaker 3: and they'll hang up on you. Okay. They want to
Speaker 3: trick you. They want to say to you, Sandy, give
Speaker 3: us your SO security number because if not, your account's
Speaker 3: going to be in jeopardy. And some people will panic
Speaker 3: and they'll go my SOI scary numbers O oh one,
Speaker 3: O two, oh oh oh three, and then they got
Speaker 3: your scrit.
Speaker 8: I'm pretty much bavvy. I'm pretty much you are.
Speaker 3: I'm not talking to you, Sandy. I'm talking about people.
Speaker 3: I'm talking to people who are listening Sandy.
Speaker 8: Yeah, okay, that's what I'm worried about.
Speaker 3: Thanks, Sandy, got to run imp. We're in Connecticut. Do
Speaker 3: you listen in, Sandy, where do you listen to?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 8: In the lovely You want to tell you where in
Speaker 8: the lovely towne of Lebanon, which is a really rural farmsclore, No,
Speaker 8: no businesses.
Speaker 3: Really, I think okay, you've called before. You know what,
Speaker 3: you don't do a pr thing for Lebanon, Connecticut. You'll
Speaker 3: have everybody moving there. You've called before, I believe correct.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I'm all right, nurse but retired.
Speaker 4: That's okay, good for you.
Speaker 3: Enjoy Thanks Andy, you pay the dues an bye bye,
Speaker 3: bye bye. All right, Nancy and Peabody, will it long Island.
Speaker 3: I think we'll take this to eleven. We'll switch at eleven.
Speaker 3: But you got a call now if you want to
Speaker 3: be on six one, seven, nine, three, one ten thirty
Speaker 3: six one, seven, two, five, four ten thirty. We're talking
Speaker 3: so security and I'm trying to take the temperature down.
Speaker 3: Probably not the smartest thing for a talk show host
Speaker 3: to do. Probably if I was a smarter talk show
Speaker 3: host to be saying, you're better be concerned because they're
Speaker 3: gonna take yourself give me a call. No, No, I
Speaker 3: don't want my listeners to be overly concerned. I do
Speaker 3: want you to be aware that if anybody calls and
Speaker 3: says I'm calling from the US Social Security Office and
Speaker 3: we want to confirm that you're still eligible, can you
Speaker 3: give us your security number. Stop right there and just say, well,
Speaker 3: if you're with SO Security, you must have my SO
Speaker 3: security number, but't you tell me what it is. Turned
Speaker 3: the tables on them. Back on Night Side right after this, you're.
Speaker 2: On Night Side with Dan Ray on Boston's news radio.
Speaker 3: All right, we're talking about SO Security. It's gone a
Speaker 3: little longer than I expected, and I'd love to hear
Speaker 3: from you if you have any questions or concerns. My
Speaker 3: belief at this point is that that the Trump administration
Speaker 3: would be fools if they did anything that tried to
Speaker 3: eliminate current beneficiaries or cut the amount of money that
Speaker 3: current beneficiaries are receiving. I just think it would be
Speaker 3: incomprehensibly stupid. And they may be many adjectives you might
Speaker 3: want to use against Elon Musk and and Doge. They're
Speaker 3: not stupid people politically. So love to hear from you.
Speaker 3: Let me go to Nancy in Peabody. Nancy, appreciate your patience,
Speaker 3: Thanks for holding on. Next on Nightside, Nancy, go right ahead.
Speaker 9: Hi, Dan, Nancy hy Nancy, Hu, Hi, I'm calling the
Speaker 9: lady that just got off the phone. She pretty much
Speaker 9: covered what I was calling about. I have been on
Speaker 9: Social Security disability for twenty six years, and it's my
Speaker 9: deceased husband social security. And I'm a little shure shaped
Speaker 9: up or shook up or whatever you want to call it,
Speaker 9: because do I have to go to the Social Security
Speaker 9: office where I've been getting for twenty six years and
Speaker 9: I went there originally where I used to live.
Speaker 3: No, No, I do not believe. So if I do
Speaker 3: not believe there's going to be any interruption of anyone's
Speaker 3: SO security now they may do you have a Social
Speaker 3: secure already account by any chance on the internet?
Speaker 5: Or no?
Speaker 9: No, my computer croaked.
Speaker 3: How long you go to your computer croak?
Speaker 9: Oh? Promost A year. I been sick with COVID nineteen
Speaker 9: and now they're sailing. I have long term COVID nineteen.
Speaker 3: So we've done a couple of shows on long term COVID.
Speaker 3: So the old I know, I know, and I appreciate that.
Speaker 3: The only thing that I think you might at some
Speaker 3: point be asked to do is you might be asked
Speaker 3: to verify your your identity. Okay, Now there's there's a
Speaker 3: couple of ways you could do that. If you were
Speaker 3: capable of going to a SO securty office, you could
Speaker 3: do it that way, or you can do it through
Speaker 3: a computer by essentially uploading maybe a driver's license and all.
Speaker 3: This is going to sound really complicated, but it's not
Speaker 3: that complicated.
Speaker 9: I don't have a computer, so that's.
Speaker 3: What Well, hold on, let me help you out.
Speaker 9: Here, okay, okay me.
Speaker 3: What I'm looking to do is try to put your
Speaker 3: mind at ease. Okay. Is there anyone in your family,
Speaker 3: immediate family, extended family, neighbors that have a computer.
Speaker 9: No, I'm on my own. My children, My children are
Speaker 9: out of states.
Speaker 3: Okay, all right, they don't you have telephone communication with them?
Speaker 9: I'm not looking at not right now. There's a situation,
Speaker 9: all right, right, right?
Speaker 3: Right? Okay, Well, okay, do you have any mobility whereby
Speaker 3: you could go to a Social Security office?
Speaker 9: Not right now. That's why I'm calling you because I'm okay,
Speaker 9: I heard about April fourth is it fourteen? That I
Speaker 9: heard on busy radio that you had to do something
Speaker 9: by April fourteen. That's why I'm calling you.
Speaker 3: Well, Uh, you pose the situation, Nancy, where the only
Speaker 3: thing that I could say is how about if I
Speaker 3: drive up and pick you up and I'll drive you
Speaker 3: to the office. Would that be okay, Yeah, yeah, I
Speaker 3: wish I had the time I would. So you don't
Speaker 3: have a friend in the world. How do you go
Speaker 3: to the store. Do you go to the store or no?
Speaker 9: Oh no, my my sister set up at instacart for
Speaker 9: me right now the last few months?
Speaker 3: Okay, have you when was the last time you were
Speaker 3: out of your house? You're making me cross examine your nancy,
Speaker 3: which I'm not comfortable in doing. But how do you
Speaker 3: go to dark.
Speaker 9: For a couple of months? Because actually I had, I
Speaker 9: ended up in the hospital.
Speaker 3: Will come Yeah? No, And I don't need the medical nance.
Speaker 3: Nance don't need the medical home. I find. I'm trying
Speaker 3: to help you out here. Okay. Are you in a wheelchair? Nancy?
Speaker 9: No?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 3: Are you ambulatory? Do you walk?
Speaker 5: I have to have.
Speaker 3: Yes, you could walk? Okay?
Speaker 2: Fine.
Speaker 3: Do you have a taxicab company in Peabody?
Speaker 9: I don't know. I've never used it.
Speaker 3: Do you have a telephone? Yes? You have a telephone? Right?
Speaker 3: Do you know how to use?
Speaker 9: Uh?
Speaker 3: Do you know how to find if there's a telephone? Uh?
Speaker 3: The easiest way if to find a telephone company in Pboty, Nancy,
Speaker 3: would be to do you know what the number of
Speaker 3: the police department is in.
Speaker 4: Pvty, Yes I do.
Speaker 3: Do you know the number of the Mayor's office?
Speaker 8: Oh?
Speaker 3: Yes, yes, Well you could call them and say I
Speaker 3: need to get a ride to the Social Security Office.
Speaker 3: Do you know where your nearest Social Security office is?
Speaker 9: But I can't do it right now because of the
Speaker 9: health problems some have and with this long term COVID.
Speaker 3: Well, Nancy, I gotta tell you, Well, the only thing
Speaker 3: I can tell you, Nancy, is why don't you try
Speaker 3: to call the Social Security Office explain to them the
Speaker 3: variety of problems that you have, and maybe they'll send
Speaker 3: someone over up. I've run out of options for you, Nancy,
Speaker 3: I've really.
Speaker 9: Are you saying Dan that you have to go?
Speaker 3: No, what I'm saying to you is everyone's situation is different,
Speaker 3: and I don't have an answer for your situation. I
Speaker 3: don't work for Social Security. However, however, you should contact
Speaker 3: you have a telephone, call the Social Security office nearest
Speaker 3: you and ask some of them the questions. You may
Speaker 3: have a Social Security account that you're not even aware of, Nancy.
Speaker 9: Believe it or not, you can give them twenty six years.
Speaker 3: I understand that that's what I'm saying to you is
Speaker 3: that you know, if you call them, they may be
Speaker 3: able to help you out. And I think that I'm
Speaker 3: not an oracle here, so I don't know all of
Speaker 3: your circumstances. I was trying to figure out a way
Speaker 3: to get you from point A to point B. Obviously
Speaker 3: I failed miserably on that effort.
Speaker 4: So I think, well, I don't know.
Speaker 9: I know i'm interrupting, Dan, but I don't know if
Speaker 9: PbD has the sceenior you can get a ride.
Speaker 3: Well, there's there's there's some things like that. That was
Speaker 3: one of the things I was going, I.
Speaker 9: Can't do it now because of my head.
Speaker 3: I understand that because you have long COVID, I understand
Speaker 3: that you haven't been out in two months. That is
Speaker 3: why I said to you, please call your local security office. Okay,
Speaker 3: I tried.
Speaker 9: I tried this morning. I couldn't even get through.
Speaker 4: Yeah, well I held on for.
Speaker 3: You do have time, and you can just put the
Speaker 3: phone down and maybe you can put it on speakerphone
Speaker 3: or whatever. So let me know how how how you
Speaker 3: make out? Okay?
Speaker 9: Yeah? Oh by the way, Dan, how do you spell
Speaker 9: your last name? Is it R E R.
Speaker 3: A R e A R E.
Speaker 9: A R E A. Okay, okay, yeah, okay, well thanks
Speaker 9: a lot.
Speaker 4: Thanks I wives some good answers, and thank you.
Speaker 3: I tried. I tried. Thanks Nancy. Good night. Let me
Speaker 3: keep rolling here if I can. I'm going to go
Speaker 3: to Mary in Hyde Park. Mary your next on Nightsager,
Speaker 3: right ahead.
Speaker 10: Hello, Dan, I'm highly hysterical, so I'm hoping you can
Speaker 10: give me some suggestions. I did not get my pension.
Speaker 10: I was a federal worker for forty four years and
Speaker 10: I've been retired for nine years, and I always got
Speaker 10: my pension on time. And I got a letter from
Speaker 10: Social Security.
Speaker 5: Two letters.
Speaker 10: They enliged a print on one Swiss and identical letter.
Speaker 10: It came on to the beginning of March, and it
Speaker 10: said that because of the windfall, I think they called
Speaker 10: the wind for a Relief Act. That's the one that
Speaker 10: Joseph Biden signed on January.
Speaker 6: Right.
Speaker 10: You probably talked about that earlier. Okay, Well, I would
Speaker 10: be receiving a check for the money from January. I
Speaker 10: think it said of twenty twenty four through January of five,
Speaker 10: or maybe I think it was February twenty February, so
Speaker 10: I did receive that check. They said I'd be receiving
Speaker 10: it towards the end of the month, but I did
Speaker 10: receive it around March third of this month.
Speaker 3: It was about fuck, it was probably about five I
Speaker 3: guessing it's about five thousand dollars.
Speaker 10: Yes, it was, but I did not read almost five thousand.
Speaker 10: It was almost five thousand, but I did not receive
Speaker 10: my regular pay check. What I have for direct deposit
Speaker 10: is Social Security, my thrift savings plan, and.
Speaker 5: My pension.
Speaker 10: So I'm wondering did they take my pension away and
Speaker 10: returned for that check, because I sort of don't.
Speaker 3: No, no, no, no, no. When does your pension check
Speaker 3: normally arrive? What day of the month?
Speaker 10: March twenty six And I checked with fifteen people who
Speaker 10: all got their checks and not me. But they all
Speaker 10: have different things, like some people didn't have quarters and
Speaker 10: they weren't getting Social Security, or some people were.
Speaker 3: For let's talk. You said you worked for the government
Speaker 3: for forty six years.
Speaker 10: Yeah, I retired from the Department of House in Urban
Speaker 10: Development on November thirtieth of two thousand and fifty.
Speaker 3: I would suspect and the check should have been deposited
Speaker 3: in your bank account on March twenty sixth, correct, right.
Speaker 10: I'm thinking it's because the people got fired. They let
Speaker 10: a lot of people from hut go. They lot a
Speaker 10: lot of people from oh pm go Office of Personal Management.
Speaker 10: They let a lot of people from the Help You Go.
Speaker 3: No, I don't think. So. My question to you is
Speaker 3: does your check hit your bank account on the twenty
Speaker 3: sixth or do you do you receive a copy of
Speaker 3: the check? Okay, So what.
Speaker 10: I would do is, first, all I know is that
Speaker 10: I checked. I checked with my bank, and that's how
Speaker 10: I do it. I check the automated system, and it
Speaker 10: never hit the automative system. So I gave it until
Speaker 10: today when I talked to a live person and they said, no,
Speaker 10: it never came in.
Speaker 3: Okay, did you talk to the bank today?
Speaker 5: Yes?
Speaker 11: Today? I called them first thing this morning.
Speaker 3: Which which one's your bank?
Speaker 10: Transportation Federal Credit Union, which is located in Alexandria, Virginia,
Speaker 10: but they have a branch here at Kimball Square, so
Speaker 10: I called the main office.
Speaker 3: What I'm saying is system, these these are unrelated. The
Speaker 3: social Security was a makeup and you should be getting
Speaker 3: then a note of five thousand dollars a month from
Speaker 3: soci Security. There should have been in that letter. They
Speaker 3: should have told you that you're going to get maybe
Speaker 3: a check of seven hundred dollars in April.
Speaker 10: Starting to get a lot more. I was only getting
Speaker 10: twenty five dollars a month from Social Security because again
Speaker 10: that you got.
Speaker 3: Taken care of the terms of all your fit. If
Speaker 3: you listen to me, I can help you. The fact
Speaker 3: that your federal pension check did not hit your bank
Speaker 3: account when it should, that is unrelated. That has to
Speaker 3: be a glitch in the system. I can't help you there.
Speaker 3: I would suggest you ask your bank to see if
Speaker 3: they I mean they're in they have an interest in
Speaker 3: this too. If they're able to send a message back
Speaker 3: and get an answer for you. Your bank should be able,
Speaker 3: your or your credit union should be able to do
Speaker 3: a little work for you on this.
Speaker 4: And I would suggest they didn't do that.
Speaker 3: I don't so many people don't. Just a suggestion and
Speaker 3: do me a favor, call me back and let me
Speaker 3: know how you make out. But I think you're going
Speaker 3: to be just fine.
Speaker 11: Okay, okay.
Speaker 10: I'm also going to go to the Social Security rally
Speaker 10: that they have and tomorrow. That masking reaction is putting on.
Speaker 3: I think it'd be better to spend your time tomorrow
Speaker 3: working to solve your problem of today.
Speaker 10: The Congressman Markey and the Congressman Warren, your favorite person.
Speaker 10: I did send out two emails to them good luck.
Speaker 10: Nobody ever answers me.
Speaker 5: I tried, good luck, good luck.
Speaker 3: I gotta go. I gave you the best advice I
Speaker 3: would work on it. Okay, thanks, We'll be right back
Speaker 3: on night Side.
Speaker 2: You're on night Side with Dan Ray on Boston's news radio.
Speaker 3: But go to my friend will Don in Long Island.
Speaker 3: Will I get three behind you here? Help me out
Speaker 3: where you go? Ahead?
Speaker 11: Will all right?
Speaker 4: Dan?
Speaker 12: Well, I'll tell you I really think you should be
Speaker 12: considered for saying to it. I would definitely, you know,
Speaker 12: not that I have any poll with the church, but
Speaker 12: I think that they should because I have certainly not
Speaker 12: just your kindness and benevolence and that stuff, but like
Speaker 12: I've at least heard you at least probably performed two
Speaker 12: or three miracles because I've been listening to the.
Speaker 5: Past this year.
Speaker 3: You're the best.
Speaker 1: You get through it.
Speaker 12: You get through it somehow. And I got to say,
Speaker 12: people my age generation X almost millennial, have always been
Speaker 12: concerned about the existence of the Social Security program for
Speaker 12: us that have been paying into it, and a much
Speaker 12: larger generation on top of us who obviously also paid
Speaker 12: into it, and a lot of them for years and decades, right,
Speaker 12: and then obviously a large group of those people are
Speaker 12: going to be the beneficiaries of it. And there's always
Speaker 12: been talk for decades at this point whether that program
Speaker 12: would exist, the retirement age would be pushed back further.
Speaker 4: So someone like me has the way that least.
Speaker 12: You know, seventeen eighteen years or longer, depending.
Speaker 3: On how old do you know, well, fifty one, how
Speaker 3: old are.
Speaker 12: You, forty eight, forty Okay, we'd be looking at you know,
Speaker 12: possibly you know, the sixty five. If you push it
Speaker 12: to seventy, obvises a lot more.
Speaker 8: But yeah, I don't think.
Speaker 3: I don't think realistically they'll push it to seventy. I
Speaker 3: think it'll go up incrementally and if if, if, those
Speaker 3: is successful and they are able to eliminate waste, and
Speaker 3: I want I won't believe it till I see it. Okay,
Speaker 3: that's gonna maybe uh stop, slow down or maybe even
Speaker 3: reverse this increased in retirement age.
Speaker 12: Yeah, well, let's and that's why I think people my
Speaker 12: age are looking at this as a good thing, because
Speaker 12: you have to realize there are sixty nine million people
Speaker 12: that receive Social Security checks every month to the tune
Speaker 12: of one point six trillion dollars per year. Right, yeah, So,
Speaker 12: and they did find social Security numbers, not checks, with
Speaker 12: social Security numbers issued to two million illegals.
Speaker 4: Usually illegals get what we.
Speaker 12: Go on it in identification numbers so that they could,
Speaker 12: you know, pay taxes or whatever or actually they usually
Speaker 12: to actually get refunds actually for the child tax credits.
Speaker 12: I won't get into that. But they found two million
Speaker 12: social Security numbers issued to these people that were using
Speaker 12: it for Medicare and everything else. So, just like every
Speaker 12: government program, there's going to be fraud. Right, So if
Speaker 12: they it hasn't been looked at in a long time,
Speaker 12: nobody actually wanted to do the work of looking at it,
Speaker 12: auditing it, finding out where the money's going. Is their
Speaker 12: misinformation sure coming from both sides? Sure are they saying
Speaker 12: that people are dead getting Social Security checks?
Speaker 5: Of course there are.
Speaker 12: Dead people getting Social Security checks and people committing fraud
Speaker 12: to what extent we don't know. But just like the
Speaker 12: debt conversation, you and I had and I'm not the
Speaker 12: biggest the ceiling is falling debt guy, But I also
Speaker 12: believe in turning the needle back, going.
Speaker 4: The right way.
Speaker 3: Right to do it with all of these programs, all right,
Speaker 3: thirty seven trillion, I don't want to see it at
Speaker 3: thirty eight or thirty nine. Absolutely will.
Speaker 4: I don't mind.
Speaker 12: I don't say you got a cut in half tomorrow,
Speaker 12: but I do understand the idea of turning the needle
Speaker 12: back the right way and heading in the right direction,
Speaker 12: which you can start with a balanced budget and work backwards,
Speaker 12: you know what I mean.
Speaker 3: Well, thank you, thank you for your kind comments, thank
Speaker 3: you for your alacrity. Tonight you hit it. You hit
Speaker 3: a thousand points and you're absolutely right. That's exactly what
Speaker 3: we hope will happen. And thank you very much for
Speaker 3: listening to my show and participating. It was a great call.
Speaker 2: Thank love it, love it.
Speaker 3: Talk to you later, man. Okay, Okay, gonna hustle everybody.
Speaker 3: Let's go to Tony and Natick. Tony, I got three
Speaker 3: more behind you. Can you be quick. I'd like to
Speaker 3: change topics at eleven.
Speaker 12: Go ahead, Tony, that's all right.
Speaker 13: I just was gonna I reiterate everything Will said just now.
Speaker 13: And I did kind of yell myself, Horse, I did
Speaker 13: want to put out the Nancy from Peabody. Yes, it's
Speaker 13: okay that maybe she should Peabody should have some senior
Speaker 13: or aging counsel.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, probably absolutely.
Speaker 13: And I know she has long COVID, so she probably
Speaker 13: has like a home help date or something like that.
Speaker 12: So the agency said that it could probably also help
Speaker 12: her get the ball.
Speaker 3: I was just, you know, I was it was so frustrating, Tony,
Speaker 3: because I'm trying to give her some ideas and some
Speaker 3: kind you know, and I mean we all have to
Speaker 3: kind of do something for ourselves a little bit, you know,
Speaker 3: with I mean, the government is not going to send
Speaker 3: so securty people to my house to to help me
Speaker 3: or whatever. I mean, I got to have some initiative.
Speaker 3: And I just was trying to help Nancy. I mean,
Speaker 3: I'm serious, you know.
Speaker 5: That's what you do.
Speaker 13: Yes, And I I deal sort of with that population too,
Speaker 13: so I understand that it is it is from.
Speaker 3: That's that's there's another good suggestion for Nancy if she's
Speaker 3: still listening, listening, and I hope she is.
Speaker 13: Nancy Senior services in Peabody.
Speaker 12: Write it down.
Speaker 3: Okay, sounds great, Tony, thank you. That's what Night Side's
Speaker 3: all about. People helping people. Thank you. Have a good night.
Speaker 3: By bye. All right, let me get real quickly here,
Speaker 3: got to go Michael in Boston, Michael, I got to
Speaker 3: get a couple more behind you.
Speaker 6: Go ahead, Michael, Okay, okay, fast, and first of all,
Speaker 6: forgive me for asking, but I'm in and out of
Speaker 6: the room here. Maybe I missed it, but I'm just
Speaker 6: wondering why you didn't have a knowing the way you
Speaker 6: usually conduct the show. A representative from Social Security on
Speaker 6: tonight so we could ask questions of them.
Speaker 1: Did I miss well?
Speaker 3: Too? Well, you didn't listen to the beginning I had scheduled.
Speaker 3: I'm Jim Roosevelt, who happens to be the grandson of
Speaker 3: Franklin Roosevelt, the president that signed to SO Scurty. No
Speaker 3: one knows more about so Scurity than Jim. He's going
Speaker 3: to join us tomorrow night at nine o'clock. He was
Speaker 3: stuck on the train today at a train that had
Speaker 3: broken down. I'm not going to tell you where or what,
Speaker 3: but he was scheduled. I miss the Okay, yep, so what.
Speaker 6: Else you got to get your opinion? I do taxes
Speaker 6: for myself and another person, a friend of mine, and
Speaker 6: he took early retirement at sixty two plus, and he
Speaker 6: was happy with that. He did that for various reasons.
Speaker 6: But since then he's gone back to work part time,
Speaker 6: so he has a small salary. And when I did
Speaker 6: his taxes this year, I noticed that of that twenty
Speaker 6: thousand dollars that he made in wages on a W two,
Speaker 6: they took out one thousand dollars in social Security. Does
Speaker 6: that sound right to you? Yes, he's already done it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, absolutely, because look I'm still working at the pool.
Speaker 3: I'm on Social Security. I'm still working. I pay Social
Speaker 3: Security and I pay Medicare twice a month.
Speaker 6: Okay, So there's no way you're going to see that again.
Speaker 6: It's going in the pool for other people.
Speaker 3: He's like, it depends upon how I live. Can you
Speaker 3: tell me when I'm going to die?
Speaker 6: No, you'll get social Security for your life?
Speaker 3: Well right, yeah, for my life. Yes, that's correct. If
Speaker 3: I if I live to one hundred, I might make
Speaker 3: out a big time. If I live to well, you know,
Speaker 3: you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 6: What they're taking out now additional Dan when you were
Speaker 6: as you're working, you will not see they won't bump
Speaker 6: up your current social security. It'll stay the same until
Speaker 6: you die.
Speaker 3: Uh. I think you're right on that. I think you're right.
Speaker 11: Well that is me.
Speaker 6: So we got to call security and ask okay, all right,
Speaker 6: thank you much.
Speaker 1: I want to be sure. I want to be sure.
Speaker 3: Okay, me too, Thanks Michael. What do we get left here? Rob?
Speaker 3: Thirty seconds? Okay, Michael and Addleborough Carl in New York,
Speaker 3: stay there if you want. I will get you both
Speaker 3: on and then we're going to go to another topic,
Speaker 3: which is which I think a lot of my Trump
Speaker 3: supporters are going to be upset with me about. Maybe
Speaker 3: I'll be surprised. We'll be back on night Side.
Speaker 6: It's nice.
Speaker 2: I'm Boston's news radio.
Speaker 3: I just want to clarify one thing that I said
Speaker 3: last hour, towards the end of last hours, kind of
Speaker 3: a rushed phone call. I think with Michael from Boston.
Speaker 3: Your social Security benefits are based upon your average earnings
Speaker 3: over thirty five years. Now, some people don't work thirty
Speaker 3: five years, but if you do have a long career
Speaker 3: and I've worked, earned money over a long period of time,
Speaker 3: longer than perhaps I want to acknowledge here on the program.
Speaker 3: But the point is that there are ways to calculate
Speaker 3: your earnings and you can go check it out. So
Speaker 3: if you are still working after having retired and you're
Speaker 3: taking a Social Security check and then you go back
Speaker 3: to work, if you're working part time, as Michael suggested
Speaker 3: his film, was working, it's probably not a not going
Speaker 3: to make much of a difference. But I can tell
Speaker 3: you that I'm working full time, and so my so
Speaker 3: scurity benefits have gone up a little bit because again
Speaker 3: averaging over my top thirty five years, it's helped me
Speaker 3: a little bit. But there's also a cap on it.
Speaker 3: So no matter how much you earn, there's a cap.
Speaker 3: So even though if you have somebody who has earned,
Speaker 3: you know, a huge salary, theres so security is going
Speaker 3: to be capped. I mean, you're not going to have
Speaker 3: people making if let's say they averaged a million dollars
Speaker 3: for thirty five years. You know, say they were a
Speaker 3: movie star or a singer, or a professional athlete who
Speaker 3: then went into coaching and you know, had a long
Speaker 3: career and they averaged a million dollars a year. They're
Speaker 3: not going to get a million dollars a year in
Speaker 3: social Security benefits. So there's all sorts of calculations and formulas,
Speaker 3: and you're invited to just you know, just go to
Speaker 3: the Social Security website and there are benefit calculations calculators
Speaker 3: that are available. A right back to the calls, we go.
Speaker 3: Next up Carl and New York. Carl next on Nightsager, right.
Speaker 1: Ahead, Yeah, how you doing.
Speaker 14: I was listening to you talking about the social Security thing.
Speaker 14: I'm retired, so I have a lot of time to
Speaker 14: do some research. And it looks to me like the
Speaker 14: only people they want to go in are new cases
Speaker 14: or if you're changing your banking information because they're no
Speaker 14: longer going to do better with the phone around.
Speaker 3: Yeah, right, And I think that even in that case,
Speaker 3: they can make exceptions. If someone is changing their banking information,
Speaker 3: they can they can make exceptions. And obviously, let us say,
Speaker 3: you know, you you want to avoid having to go in,
Speaker 3: and let's assume you decide you want to change your
Speaker 3: bank from Bank A to Bank B. Well, you could
Speaker 3: leave your account that could receive the benefits on a
Speaker 3: monthly basis at Bank A, and then you could just
Speaker 3: you know, every month transfer it over, you know, to
Speaker 3: to B so you know you there. There are ways
Speaker 3: to work around it. But if you have to go in,
Speaker 3: you have to go in because.
Speaker 14: Our local our local office here now you can't just
Speaker 14: walk in anymore.
Speaker 1: You got to have an appointment, yep.
Speaker 3: And how difficult is it to get an appointment from
Speaker 3: your experience.
Speaker 14: Well, they're a week out mhm when you go when
Speaker 14: you go in, because I have that and there and
Speaker 14: people that are getting like us to science social security
Speaker 14: and stuff like that, people that are working a little
Speaker 14: and you have to tage, you have to put.
Speaker 1: On like you make in. They're no longer doing that
Speaker 1: online either.
Speaker 3: Okay, so you got to go in the other So you're.
Speaker 14: So from now on, if you're going to turn in
Speaker 14: pace ups or whatever, you've got to go to the office.
Speaker 3: Okay. And how how you're in New York, I'm not
Speaker 3: sure whereabouts in New York you are. How closest do
Speaker 3: you have a soci Security They are closing some social
Speaker 3: security buildings and offices around the country. That is also
Speaker 3: in the article that I have in the Globe today.
Speaker 3: And just to give you a sense of it, they
Speaker 3: are closing. Social Security managers plan to layoff seven thousand,
Speaker 3: fifty seven thousand employees, so that's about twelve percent of
Speaker 3: the workforce.
Speaker 14: And to close that's probably that's probably why there were
Speaker 14: a week out already.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and to close six of ten regional offices and
Speaker 3: regional offices and four hundred and eighty of its offices
Speaker 3: forty percent. So my question is how close is you
Speaker 3: your SO Security office to you wherever you are in
Speaker 3: New York? Is it ten miles away, one hundred miles away,
Speaker 3: how far is it?
Speaker 1: I'm probably five or six miles.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Okay, So hopefully they'll be squad and they're not
Speaker 3: going to say, well, we're going to eliminate every office
Speaker 3: in you know, the state.
Speaker 1: I hope they I hope they don't.
Speaker 14: I hope they don't, because they just they just built
Speaker 14: a brand new building. They took they took they took
Speaker 14: our all local office out of a downtown area and
Speaker 14: moved it to like a suburban area, which really hurts
Speaker 14: a lot of people around here, especially our seniors and
Speaker 14: stuff getting transportations.
Speaker 1: To go all the way up there. You know what
Speaker 1: I mean.
Speaker 14: People are people are not very happy that that they
Speaker 14: actually moved.
Speaker 3: But well, everybody, you know, everybody wants everything next door
Speaker 3: to them. I get that. I certainly do understand that,
Speaker 3: and particularly you know, senior citizens, but hopefully myself.
Speaker 1: I don't have a I don't have a car. I
Speaker 1: have to use buses.
Speaker 14: That's instead of taking one bus to the to the
Speaker 14: place now and now it's two.
Speaker 3: Are you a senior citizen at this point or no?
Speaker 1: Yes, I am on sixty five.
Speaker 3: So we have back here. We have something called the ride.
Speaker 3: I don't know if you have anything like that where
Speaker 3: you know, seniors can it can get rides, you know,
Speaker 3: free of charge or for a nominal fee. They'll pick
Speaker 3: you up and they'll drive your door to door.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I just do.
Speaker 14: But it's better weather out now, so it's not going
Speaker 14: to really bother me.
Speaker 1: You know what I mean. And I do get transportation
Speaker 1: locally for my doctor's appointment.
Speaker 14: The VA is all the way in Albany, ten fifteen
Speaker 14: miles away.
Speaker 1: So I get transportation to there.
Speaker 3: Okay, sounds great, sounds great. Thanks for the update. It's
Speaker 3: always great to hear from folks in different parts of
Speaker 3: the country. Carl, Thank you.
Speaker 1: All right, by my talk to you soon.
Speaker 3: Let me get one more in here before the break,
Speaker 3: going to go to Michael and Attleborough. Michael next on Nightsiger.
Speaker 4: Right ahead, again, how are you.
Speaker 3: I'm doing great, hope you're doing well.
Speaker 11: Yeah, yeah, I am.
Speaker 6: My wife worked for the state for close to forty years.
Speaker 4: She just passed.
Speaker 11: But that, okay, I'm not entitled to a pension because
Speaker 11: she didn't because we weren't married while she was working there.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 14: And however, Mara Haley.
Speaker 3: We don't have common law marriage and mass.
Speaker 11: However, mar Haley, if the gay, if the gay and
Speaker 11: you can, you're a.
Speaker 14: Common law marriage in another state, You're entitled to the
Speaker 14: other person's pension.
Speaker 3: Okay. Again, that's that's getting into some some areas that
Speaker 3: would open up a huge can of worms tonight. And
Speaker 3: I've at this late.
Speaker 4: In the hour out Okay.
Speaker 11: The other is I am going to call on tomorrow
Speaker 11: night because what I didn't realize is social Security separate.
Speaker 14: I called them and they said I'm not entitled so
Speaker 14: bad either, but that is a separate thing.
Speaker 11: So I'm gonna call tomorrow night and see what they
Speaker 11: have to say about it.
Speaker 3: Okay. So what is your Your question is can your can?
Speaker 3: Your can you receive the Social Security.
Speaker 12: From your Yeah, I already get Social I already get
Speaker 12: Social but like someone has said to me, it's her money.
Speaker 12: She worked for it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, well, yeah, we'll try the other thing that
Speaker 3: you can do tomorrow is try to call the Social
Speaker 3: Security Office and explain the situation. You know, I mean,
Speaker 3: I don't.
Speaker 4: Know that I did.
Speaker 6: They said they said I wasn't entitled.
Speaker 3: Okay, Well, if they said you weren't entitled, Jim Roosevelt
Speaker 3: might give you that same same answer. But feel free
Speaker 3: to give it a shot tomorrow night. Okay, thanks, Michael.
Speaker 4: Appreciate, Thank you.
Speaker 3: Bye, I have a great night. Okay, We're gonna take
Speaker 3: a quick break. That wraps it up in so security conversation. Again.
Speaker 3: I try to try to help as many people as
Speaker 3: we can here. But we're going to now switch to
Speaker 3: another topic. And this is one that some of you
Speaker 3: might be surprised by, and that is that I don't
Speaker 3: quite understand what the Trump administration is doing in terms
Speaker 3: of resting people on the streets with ice officers. Plain closed.
Speaker 3: I'm speaking specifically about the arrest of the Toughts graduate
Speaker 3: student that occurred last week, and I want to explain
Speaker 3: it and whether you agree or disagree, I'd love to
Speaker 3: have you joined the conversation back on Nightside right after
Speaker 3: this quick break