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Its as if I didn't work at all.

None of those years counted as I was paying into the Federal Employees Retirement fund.

When I quit, they gave me $6,000.00 which I was able to put $2,000.00 a year into an IRA. This was in 1985 and it never quite worked out that way.

I paid into Social Security for many years and receive a paltry $1350.00 a month in regular SSA.

I began working full-time at my Federal job when I was 19 years old as a temporary employee. I was paying into SS while employed temporarily but when I became full-time permanent, it as went into to the Federal employees pension system, no more into SSA.

I was disability retired on SSDI at the age of 39 by the State of Calif. at $49.00/month.

Needless to say, I don't have much of anything, esp. a decent monthly income to live on.

Today, I receive a small pension of $100.00 a month from the State of Calif. as I worked for them from 1985-1996. I worked for UCSF, the State of Calif. and the California State College system. I drove to one job that paid $8.50 an hr. that was a 100 mile a day commute. I did that for about 2 years. It was a permanent part-time State of Calif. job that was barely worth doing, but I did it. My paychecks were about $800.00 a month or less.

People on SSI get more than I do in many cases as they quality for a lot of extra benefits that I do not receive, like a decent amount of food stamps. I get $23.00 a month in food stamps.

New Federal employees pay into SS and the Federal Employees Retirement System today. I would have too but at the age of 19, I didn't have retirement and a pension in mind at all.

Will this ruling help me at all? I rather doubt it.