can you receive social security at 65 and never have worked?

Answer 1

Nope. I got a letter about 3 months before my 25th birthday from the Social Security Administration that I had a job that did not pay social security taxes. If I want to qualify for Social Security, I have to find a job that does pay social security taxes or get married to someone who paid social security taxes.

So, if you never worked in your entire life, then you don't get social security, unless you marry someone who did pay social security taxes.

Answer 2

Well, believe it or not, the answer is yes and no.....

While the basic requirements state that you have to have worked 10 years to collect, there are numerous loopholes where people can collect.

If you are a surviving spouse of someone who has worked, then you can collect.
If you are a recent immigrant, then you can collect. (this is the real ripoff, as we wind up being a third world retirement home) If a legal resident sponsers their parents or grandparents and they get citizenship, they can collect social security even though they have never worked or paid into the system.

There are also loopholes for people who have worked entry level jobs as often they are given SSI. If you can prove slow learning or a drug or alchohol problem they say you have mental imparement and can collect.

Answer 3

You have to pay into Social Security in order to collect it. The only exception might be if you are or were married to someone who paid into SS or if you are a dependent of someone who paid in.
Check online, but as far as I know, you have to work 40 quarters or 10 years to collect and some people have to be older than 65 - it depends on when you were born.
Check online to see where you fall.

Answer 4

If your spouse passed away, you can collect on his/her account.

The page on the Social Security Administration's site that addresses eligibility says: "If you were born in 1929 or later, you need to have worked for at least 10 years to be eligible for retirement benefits." More specifically, you had to have had a job in which you paid into the system. In other words, if you were paid cash and didn't declare the income on your income tax returns (Forms 1040), you won't collect Social Security.

Answer 5

not the regular version of it...you may can get some supplimental income from ssi but you will have to prove you is broke and dont own no business or propertys.

Answer 6

you have to have earned income, dividends and interest don't count