[Ipg-smz] Two lumps of "retirement" coal in my holiday stocking

[Evan Schuman]

Also curious: If I recall correctly, CMP Publications didn’t exist in ’98. It would have been CMP Media by then.

 

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From: Ipg-smz <ipg-smz-bounces at netpress.org> On Behalf Of David Needle via Ipg-smz
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Subject: [Ipg-smz] Two lumps of "retirement" coal in my holiday stocking

 

 


I recently applied for social security - yeah, I'm that old. Sigh. But not retiring. 

 

Anyway, I just received two letters from the Social Security Administration headed 

Potential Private Retirement Benefit Information. 

 

Each one begins: "We are writing to tell you that you, or the worker whose Social Security number appears at the top of this form, MAY be entitled to some retirement benefits from a private employer .

 

Long story short, one letter says there is a "value" of $18,376 in a retirement account connected to CMP Publications reported in 1998 and the other lists $34,687 from Computer Currents Publishing reported in 1996. 

 

Both of those companies are long gone so I assume this is just some unresolved accounting by Social Security. While I don't remember these exacty figures, I did have a 401K at both companies so I assume that is what is this is in reference to and the money isn't actually owed to me or even exists anywhere as I would have rolled it over long ago. 

 

Oh well, got excited there for a minute. 

 

 

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