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Please Stop Confusing SSI with Social Security

I sometimes feel like I should spend the first half of the column explaining to readers that the Supplemental Security Income program is not Social Security. And then I should spend the second half of the column explaining that the Social Security program is not SSI. But I will bet my next pension check that, after writing that same column each week for a year, I will still get emails from readers who confuse the two government programs. Here are two examples from this week’s email inbox.

First email: “Both my wife and I are getting SSI. I want to know this: If we move from California to Texas, will our SSI checks continue in the same amount?”

Second email: “My mother is getting Social Security. She wants to move to Costa Rica where she thinks she will be able to live more cheaply.

Can she get her Social Security checks in Costa Rica?”

I’m going to come back later and answer these questions. And given the subject of today’s column, I will give you a hint to unlocking the clue to the answers. Turns out the husband and wife who want to move from California to Texas are getting Social Security, not SSI. And the woman whose mother wants to move to Costa Rica is getting SSI, not Social Security.

But before I get to the answers, I’m going to explain the difference between Social Security and SSI -- maybe for the one-thousandth time in this column!

Most people know what Social Security is.

You work. You pay taxes. And then when you retire or become disabled, you start getting Social Security checks based on what you paid into the system.

Or if you die, your widow, widower or minor children start getting monthly benefits -- again, based on what you paid into Social Security during your working years.

And it is obvious to me that most people do not know what SSI is. Supplemental Security Income is a federal welfare program that pays a small monthly stipend to people who are 65 or older who are very poor; or to people who are under 65 but disabled who are very poor. How poor? Usually they have to have monthly income of less than about $730 per month to qualify for SSI payments.

Many people confuse SSI with Social Security for a variety of reasons. One is the name. Supplemental Security Income just sounds like some kind of supplemental Social Security program. It is NOT.

Another reason for the confusion is the fact that the Social Security Administration runs the SSI program for the federal government. But that is all they do. They manage the program. To repeat: SSI is not a Social Security benefit. And SSI payments are not paid for out of Social Security funds. The money for SSI comes out of the government’s general operating funds. In fact, Social Security’s trust funds are even reimbursed from the general funds for the costs of administering the SSI program.

And getting back to that name business.

So many people think that SSI stands for Social Security income. In other words, when millions of people say, “I’m getting SSI,” they think they are saying, “I’m getting Social Security.” But when I hear you say, “I’m getting SSI,” or when a Social Se-

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DEAR DR. ROACH: I am a reasonably killer on our hands. Bile duct cancer, known as

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I recently purchased an antique marble-top table for $120. The wood is walnut and has the original finish. The cur ved legs have burl trim and casters. It stands 20 inches tall, 27 inches long and 21 inches wide. There is a small crack in the marble, but other than that it is in ver y good condition.

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Much of its porcelain was influenced by Meissen porcelain.

Similar cake plates made by Von Schierholz Porcelain Manufactory can be seen on the internet selling in the range of $25 to $50. * * *

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Victorian Renaissance Revival furniture was made from 1865 to 1880.

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You have a Victorian Renaissance Revival lamp table. The style flourished from around 1865 to 1880 and was inspired by 16th-century Renaissance furniture. Scrolled legs with beveled edges, casters, raised burl trim and marble tops characterize the Renaissance Revival.

The height of your table is puzzling. Coffee tables were not made until the early 20th century.

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“Yet to win the big one” is perhaps the most damning thing you can say about an NFL quarterback, particularly when you’re a Dallas Cowboy and have to live up to legendary names like Don Meredith, Roger Staubach and Troy Aikman. And it’s something that Romo has heard a lot. People are always unsure about him. Is he a fearless playmaker, or is he a guy who makes bad decisions and refuses to stick to the script?

Well, we may never know that answer, at least not in Dallas, because a new story is being written there as we speak by Rayne Dakota “Dak” Prescott.

Prescott is accustomed to rewrites.

He rewrote Mississippi State’s record book, setting 38 school records and setting the record for most passing yards in Orange Bowl history. Picked in the fourth round by the Cowboys in 2016, he broke the rookie record for most completions without an interception as a rookie, a record once held by a guy named Tom Brady ... a guy who didn’t break 38 records at Michigan.

Prescott plays like the pro he is every week, he plays as if he’s been there before, and he plays like a leader who will take you places that you’ve never been before. When you can orchestrate not one, but two gamewinning full-field drives to come from behind at Pittsburgh, you are treading on untouched real estate. But that is, of course, exactly what Prescott did.

The Cowboys as a franchise know how to deal with the press. While more than a few players aren’t smart enough to keep their names out of the police blotter, they know better than to tip their hand regarding the quarterback situation. “I’ll let those in charge of making that decision make that decision” is the common refrain.

The team’s larger-than-life owner is a near-obsessive fan of Tony Romo. (He has gone on record saying that he would be heartbroken if he didn’t win Romo a championship. Huh? Shouldn’t that be the other way around?) Even he had to begrudgingly admit that the team had to go with “the hot hand.”

The aforementioned hand is Prescott’s, and no doubt about it, it is scorching hot. Romo may be burning to get back into the game, but with each passing win -- and I do mean “passing” win -- the more it appears that we will be seeing Romo in another uniform come next fall. Time waits for no one, and in the NFL, you’re only as good as your backup’s first game.

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