Check in if your Social Security check arrived on time this month!

[Jack Valentino]

3. I applied for early SS retirement on last November 23rd,

and am STILL waiting for any response at all (when they say that a month is 'normal', for starters...)

I was hoping for January, best case scenario.

I supposed it would be February, bad case scenario.

I hope for March but nothing is happening....


Meanwhile, I haven't been able to work,
and have been surviving since last June
by selling personal possessions on Ebay--
many of which I really did NOT want to part with.

If it takes until April, I may be in serious trouble--
running out of things to sell for which there would be much demand....

Been delaying my electric bill for many months, until I get a "shutoff notice",
and then sometimes negotiating with the utility--- but things are getting difficult...

(I'm on SNAP now, but my car is broke down and now unlicensed,
I get my food by hiking to Dollar General with a backpack
every day or every other day--- weather is terrible,
but the walking has actually done me some good, lol)


My application was submitted during the Biden administration,
but the transition has done nothing to give me any hope...

(I am quite entitiled to SS benefits, this just seems to be a massive failure of buerocracy to respond!!)