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Blame it on federal budget woes and a general migration of information from printed to digital format. Starting in April, most U.S. workers will no longer receive their annual Social Security benefit estimates in the mail.
"In light of the current budget situation, we are suspending the mailing of the annual statements beginning in April," Social Security spokesman Mark Lassiter tells Kiplinger's.
http://money.msn.com/retirement/article.aspx?post=25a6ebe2-e5c2-403b-bcc1-4d946946b812
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Not everybody knows how to use a computer or has one at home. I certainly wouldn't be comfortable looking at private information like that from a library or internet cafe for example. I agree with cookiefan. They should have made it an opt-in program.
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Way to go there in giving our postal workers' bosses another reason to cut their staff and services. That's a substantial amount of outgoing mail about to be taken out of the system if they adopt it nationwide.
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Way to go there in giving our postal workers' bosses another reason to cut their staff and services. That's a substantial amount of outgoing mail about to be taken out of the system if they adopt it nationwide.
Maybe that's the idea. They all work for the same man at the top after all, no matter what govt dept they are in.
It would have been nice if they had offered the choice rather than just "you're not getting it". I guess it makes sense in these digital days. I just hope the savings are spent where they are needed most.
Without frugality none can be rich, and with it very few would be poor.
- Samuel Johnson