Originally Posted by
mommylamb
It is scary because a lot of people don't realize all this. For us, it was an issue because DH used to work for a foreign government and because he was a green card holder, not a citizen, at the time, we fell into a tax loophole where he didn't have to pay payroll tax. Of course, this meant he wasn't paying SS that whole time. Once he got his citizenship, he started paying SS tax, and now he works in the private sector anyway. He will work for more than 10 years before it's time to retire, so he'll qualify, but it did keep me up at night a bit back in the day.
My work as a teacher doesn't count toward SS either. It is worrisome to me.
L, mommy to my one and only, super-sweet boy, G 6/08
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