home
***
CD-ROM
|
disk
|
FTP
|
other
***
search
/
DP Tool Club 19
/
CD_ASCQ_19_010295.iso
/
vrac
/
rune9412.zip
/
WHAT
< prev
next >
Wrap
Text File
|
1994-12-01
|
5KB
|
97 lines
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= WhatNots, Why not? =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
News You Can Use:
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
Here is a little something for you Yippies, Yuppies, and other (even
older) puppies. Social Security! -- most have little thought about it,
except when looking at the breakdown on their pay-stub. *YOU* must work
and pay taxes into SS in order to get something out of it. (Of course,
many benefits are paid out to dependents or survivors of a payor; and
funds are also paid out in other benefits such as SSI and Medicare).
As you work and pay taxes, you earn credits (for 1993 1 credit per $590
in earnings) up to a maximum of 4 earned credits per year.
You need to have a minimum of 40 earned credits to receive SS benefits
at retirement. If you are working for yourself, you should be paying
15.3 percent of your taxable income into Social Security, up to the
limit of $57,600. Or, your employer pays 7.65 percent and you pay an
additional 7.65 percent from your gross salary up to the limit of $57,600.
If your income exceeds $57,600, as of 1993, you continue to pay on the
Medicare portion of your Social Security tax (1.45% from both you and your
employer) to a limit of $135,000 per year.
SO WHAT! WHO CARES! -- you should.
The current formula for your pay out at retirement will amount to
approximately 42 percent of your earnings. This will probably see caps and
limits by the time you retire. What does this mean to you?
For starters, you most certainly should have your primary residence paid
off completely prior to retirement. Everyone should have an investment
plan of some type, where you're investing a specified amount of your income
every payday. Your investment plan can be as simple as automatic purchasing
of U.S. Savings Bonds, or as complicated as a self-directed IRA/KEOGH with
DRIP's, SRIP's, MLP's, REMLP's, or using your employer's investment plan if
offered.
Make it easily understandable: figure out your total monthly expenses, then
figure out your monthly take home pay. Now multiply .42 x monthly take home
pay. Compare that figure to your total monthly expenses.
Example: take home $2,000; expenses $1,500, leaving $500 to spend as
you wish. Then retirement: .42 x $2,000 = $840. You can see the $840
received from SS will not quite cover your $1,500 in expenses.
Should you be investing? Probably! Do you have questions or concerns about
your Social Security benefits? -- contact your local Social Security Office.
Your taxes are paying them to serve you; use their information services to
your benefit.
Btw, if you are an illegal alien, working and wondering about where your
Social Security benefits are going -- become a citizen and you too can
be almost assured a paltry sum at retirement as well.
Investment plans need *TIME* to provide capital returns -- so ten years
from now when you remember you should have been investing -- you've only
lost, with a simple savings of $25 per week buried in your backyard,
$13,000.00. Of course those savings do not reflect any compound interest
that would have inflated the figure over time -- hopefully, exceeding
the inflation rate and erosion of "real" purchasing power.
Enjoy those retirement years!
===============================# # #==================================
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
Even More sTufF
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
YOU can save a tree -- read Electronically!
Buy E-Books and E-Magazines!
Support a "Green Industry!"
========================= # # # ===============================
Have tips and hints that would be of service to others? Share THEM; send
to: RUNE'S RAG, PO BOX 243, Greenville, PA 16125 or DATA (412) 588-7863
------------------------------------------------------------------------
As always, seek competent advice from your legal advisor, doctor, maid,
dentist, accountant, beautician, lawyer, bartender, neighbor, priest, cat,
pastor, social worker, contractor, engineer, Dr. Spock, AA, AAA, AAAA, dog,
NWU, military advisor, coroner, mechanic, mother, father (both for totally
different answers), gardener, tax advisor, HARLEY DEALER, travel agent,
roofer, computer dealer (haha), insurance man, and don't forget the butcher,
baker, and candlestick maker! Talk to your kids for the best advice!
Any and all information found in this magazine is taken entirely at the
risk of the individual, and as always wear a condom for complete protection
-- against missinformation, and other things. Any and all similarity to real
persons is purely fictional coincidence, especially the editor -- who is
merely a figment of our collective consciousness. Remember -- keep on RAG'n!
----------------------------------------------------------------------------