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Grex Finance Item 15: Social Security estimate [linked]
Entered by wh on Fri Apr 7 17:26:02 UTC 1995:

You can estimate your social security benefits with a program you 
can ftp from the Social Security Administration. If you don't know
your earning under Social Security, you can call 800-772-1213 and
I am told they will send you a Personal Earnings and Benefit Estimate
Statement. You will also receive a report of your earnings while
paying into Social Security. 

For the software, 
        !
        ftp ftp.ssa.gov
        as user   type  anonymous
        for passwd type  your internet address  (___@cyberspac.org)
        once connected,    cd oact
        get readme.pia       a short file, downloads in a few seconds
        get anypia.zip     over 300 k
        quit

Then download to your pc and pkunzip -d anypia.zip <pathname where you
want it>. Then delete from your home directory so as not to take up
space on grex that you're not using.

9 responses total.

#1 of 9 by steve on Fri Apr 7 17:59:12 1995:

   Hmmm.  I have an idea.  If there are people who want this, let's
get *one* copy and put it in /tmp for a while, so we can avoid having
umpteen people grab copies over our already-slow-as-molassas link?

#2 of 9 by davel on Sun Apr 9 00:45:32 1995:

wh already has it in his home dir, & posted that fact in the announcements
item.  Moving it somewhere standard, or leaving it around longer, sounds
like a reasonable idea.

#3 of 9 by steve on Mon Apr 10 03:33:57 1995:

   Where should we put it?

#4 of 9 by raven on Mon Apr 10 05:20:13 1995:

        Is this for unix, dos or mac?

#5 of 9 by remmers on Mon Apr 10 09:36:22 1995:

Since it's a .zip file, it's probably for dos.

#6 of 9 by lfrank on Tue Apr 11 01:41:55 1995:

If you are under fourty, you are wasting your time.  Your benefits will be
approximately $0 per month, cause there aren't enough people to pay for all
the benefits MY generation is going to use up.

#7 of 9 by tnt on Tue Apr 11 08:06:32 1995:

  The movies 'Logan's Run' and 'Soylent Green' suddenly come to mind...

#8 of 9 by signet on Wed Apr 10 13:19:32 1996:

I had heard that was the case #6, but the information I recently received (a
brochure) and the requested statement lead me to believe otherwise. Does
anybody know for sure?

#9 of 9 by marcvh on Tue Apr 23 18:47:10 1996:

Nobody can predict the future, but it's hard to imagine how SS can continue
to exist wthout some substantial changes.  Payroll taxes will have to 
continue to go up, and/or income taxes will rise so that the surplus in
the trust fund can actually cash in its treasury IOU's, and/or a more
comprehensive means testing, and/or partial privatization...

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