Its started again. The letters from The Department of Social Security have again begun to show their ugly faces in my post box…..
“ We are responding to your request for information “ was how one of the recent letters began. Rather a might opposite to the previous correspondence which was “requesting” information. As it turns out there are some important questions to be answered over my wifes’ income for the year 2010. Now I’ll throw this out for all the world to see…including Social Security and IRS…
“ In the year 2010 my wife made $160.00 a week for nine months ”…..what else do we need to know ? ? Just how important can this possibly be ?
When I started to receive messages on my cell phone the likes of….
“ This is Susan Hassleblog at the Social Security and we have some questions for your wife…please have her return this call at 877-405-0490 extension 18054 ” we decided it best to just go to a local S.S. office and confront this face to face….
The woman we met, coincidentally also a Susan, was pleasant and genuinely tried to be helpful , though to no avail. Computer search as hard as she might she could find no reason for the S.S. to wish to speak with us whatsoever . She did mention more than once however that my name sounded extremely familiar…….
“ Are you on Social Security ? Do you collect any benefit at all ? “ she seemed sure I did.
“ I collect a weekly pay check that covers our expenses if I refuse to pay the bills, but no government benefit whatsoever “ I explained and then went home…the mystery unsolved.
Yesterday morning I found another phone message….
“ This is Susan Hassleblog at the Social Security office, we met yesterday and I think I found out why the Social Security wants to speak with your wife….please have her contact me at 877-405-0490 extension 18054”
Good grief…the woman who originally tried to contact us by mail and phone turns out to be the same blank stare we pointlessly sat in front of the other day. We’ve returned the call twice and left a message, obviously a wasted effort as no return calls have yet arrived. We sit patiently now expecting that a thorough investigation has taken place and they’ve discovered the $27.00 my wife earned under the table one Saturday morning six months ago. I’m sure we’ll wind up accountable…and I wonder if those politicians so quick to protect corporations from unnecessary tax burden will be as quick to help us evade the $4.00 we owe…….
