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Half of my monthly income consists of my Social Security check. The other half is my state pension from teaching community college and my private teacher's retirement. I planned well for retirement and live paycheck to paycheck as planned. Living in Mexico now was part of that retirement plan because the cost of living is half of the cost of living where I lived in the USA.
Now that my retired income is half of what my salary was, it works out except for one factor I didn't count on: on a whim the pension funds will stop sending me my monthly checks. In the Fall it was my state pension. I got to know the bureaucrat who cut my check off well as I spoke to him daily for a whole month before he let my check start coming once more. He really had no reason to stop sending it, he just did it because he could. When he got bored with holding my check up after a month he said it was my fault he had to stop my check because I didn't have a US address. I got a friend in the US to let me use his, and presto! My check started coming again.
I sent a letter via FedEx to the Social Security Administration today asking now if THEY would re-start my monthly check. Hope they take it well, I was careful in what I said. The price for sending it from here was 70 dollars! Yikes! A friend had to lend me the money just for me to beg to get my money. How's that for irony? Ha! I imagine I'm about to meet a bureaucrat now like the state bureaucrat who gave me the run around last Fall. I'd appreciate your help with how this stress triggers my PTSD in order to keep me cool when talking to this man I expect to be hearing from soon. Support welcome.
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Hey All...I hope that you have a lovely, peaceful beginning of your weekI have a bunch of chores that need doing but may put them off til tomorrow and just hang out with my landlord/roomie todayWhat about you?...Anything special going on?Have a great day and take good care of you!!..Xo
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Once again I've had a fever today. I'm not going to the hospital because that's a huge waste of time but I did schedule a dr appointment for Wednesday afternoon.
That's what happened when the supervisor at the Maryland state pension office got a burr under his saddle about where I lived this past October and held up that check back THEN. Come the 2nd half of November I got October's check and November's check at once, for which I was thankful for buying Christmas presents.
I wish these office workers at these pension funds would settle down and stop being angry about my living in Mexico. The cost of living is half of that in the USA, so it's where I could afford to retire.