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Earnings Record

Excerpted from "Social Security Handbook". See the up-to-date, official Social Security Handbook at ssa.gov.

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1403. Earnings Record

1403.1 What does the earnings record show?

Your earnings record shows the amount of earnings reported by your employer or by you, if you are self-employed. Also, it shows the periods for which your earnings were reported.

1403.2 What happens to the Social Security taxes?

During working years, employees, their employers, and the self-employed pay Social Security and/or Medicare taxes. The equivalent of these taxes is pooled in special trust funds under automatic appropriation by Congress. (See §140.)

Last Revised: Jul. 1, 2004


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Please if you may ,send me a copy of my social security benefit so that I may see my statement as soon as possible thank you James T 47 Roe Road Bloomingburg 12721 born 1959 October. email is jto__@ yahoo.com


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