I am a naturalized senior citizen self-employed as a consultant with a registered sole proprietorship. I pay self-employment social security taxes that earn me quarterly credits. How can my wife who is also qualified in my field and helping in my work become eligible to earn social security credits? We file under MFJ, but I have not paid her separately for services. Thank you.

I received an award for lost earnings due to an injury that permanently disabled me.
The lost earnings portion of my award were offset by the SS and Fed and State Taxes.

I have petitioned the SSA to include my lost earnings award on my SSA earnings record.
They recently sent me a letter and denied my request, stating "no actual earnings were paid to you"
and they claim that "no taxes were ever paid to any government entity."

Hi Larry
Im 58 this year and plan to take a postponed retirement next March 1 for 18 months. I’ll retire from the USPS with 22 years at age 60. If I delay my Social Security until FRA at 67 can I pay social security taxes on my disbursements from my TSP?

Thank you,
Susan

still working full time wanting to know who is responsible for reporting my 2021 earnings to the social security. thanks david

Hi David. If you work for wages, then your employer is responsible for reporting your Social Security covered earnings to Social Security. However, if you're self-employed or an independent contractor, then you are responsible for reporting your earnings on Schedule SE of your tax return. The IRS then forwards that information to Social Security.

Best, Jerry

My social security changed this year from survivors benefit to my own at 62 I have worked parry time and received a 1099 for 10000 dollars do I pay taxes on social security and my 1099 Mr social security last year was 11000.

I worked in the UK for 8 years and want to make sure I receive reciprocity when I start collecting Social Security soon. I paid UK taxes as a UK resident, and my Social Security summary records $0 in contributions for those years. How do I make sure that gets done right, please? Thank you.

Will my 1099 income for 2021 be used just like W_2 Earning for social security.

Hi. No. Social Security taxes are not withheld from income reported on a 1099 form. Income reported on a 1099 form is only considered as earnings for purposes of Social Security benefit calculations and the Social Security earnings test if the income represents self-employment earnings. If it does, then the countable amount of the self-employment income is the net earnings from self-employment (NESE) that's reported on Schedule SE of the person's tax return.

I currently use you Maximize software and it has helped me make my original decision to file at FRA and also 20 months later to suspend until age 70, since I am now receiving a pension from TRS and the WEP will reduce what I would receive from SSA.
In Aug 2021 I was part of the RIF at Dallas College (DC) in Texas.
DC does not participate into Social Security and pays into the TRS of Texas.
At separation I received Vacation pay and 6 months of severance pay which is being paid monthly until Feb 2022.

I've been divorced for over 20 years and recently started getting half my exes SS benefits. My question is, besides your salary earnings, if you earn money on your stocks, dividends or other ways, isn't that considered earnings as well and therefore should be taxed or am I missing something? Problem is I've never been mathematically inclined and I also have a strong feeling that my ex kind of, lied or left out some info on his taxes and his returns.
It gets more complicated but I'm going to assume you get the idea.

I started collecting SS at age 62. I'm still working part time and making under $19000 a year. I'm currently 65 years old and need to know if the Social Security taxes that's being deducted from my paycheck will be forfeited or will I get those deductions back at a certain age?