California

One person I know of is in a even worse situation than I am in.

It is tragic. We are of the same age and often wonder if this is not a plot to off the lot of *us*.

We are the ones that worked for $2.00 and $3.00 an hour.

We end up with nothing; perhaps an SS check if we paid into it.

I didn't pay into it as a Federal employee. I paid into the FERS instead. When I wised up and quit, they gave me $6,000.00 after 10+ years of their B.S.

I got pushed into the Federal work force by my late mother. She was convinced that SS would not exist by the year 2000. Well she was wrong, very wrong.

I fell for it not knowing what else to believe at the age of nineteen.

Thanks for the sage advice mommy dearest. Ugh.

She ended up with next to nothing as well but she was able to COLLECT my late father's University of Calif. pension. When my husband died 1-1/2 years ago, he left me with nothing to collect, just a stack of bills and now my life is a hell going from one disaster to the next it seems. Why me?