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Here's the answer SSA gives:

If you are a United States citizen, you can travel or live in most foreign countries without affecting your eligibility for Social Security benefits.

However, there are a few countries—Cambodia, Cuba, North Korea, Vietnam and many of the former U.S.S.R. republics (except Armenia, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Russia)—where we cannot send Social Security checks.

If you are not a United States citizen, the law requires us to stop your payments after you have been outside the United States for six calendar months unless you meet one of several exceptions in the law which will permit you to continue receiving benefits abroad. These exceptions are based, for the most part, on your citizenship.

For example, if you are entitled to worker’s benefits and are a citizen of one of the many countries with which the United States has a reciprocal arrangement to pay each other’s citizens in another country, your Social Security benefits may continue after you leave the United States (see a list at Your Payments While You Are Outside The United States ).

If you work outside the United States, different rules apply in determining if you can get your benefit checks. Most people who are neither U.S. residents nor U.S. citizens will have 25.5 percent of their benefits withheld for federal income tax.

For more information about receiving benefits abroad, we recommend you read the booklet, Payments While You Are Outside the United States (Publication No.05-10137) from http://www.socialsecurity.gov/pubs/10137.html

2006-10-18 15:10:51 · answer #1 · answered by althegrrl 3 · 1 0

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2016-10-08 08:30:13 · answer #2 · answered by Jamie 3 · 0 0

I would think not since Social Security is in America.

2006-10-17 04:48:57 · answer #3 · answered by GreenEyedSista 4 · 0 1

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2016-10-19 21:14:35 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0 0

If you are a U.S. citizen, you can receive your benefits outside of the U.S. as long as you are eligible.

http://www.ssa.gov/pubs/10137.pdf

2006-10-17 05:12:38 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2 0

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