Does military retirement affect your social security payments?

Public Comments

1. My uncle retired from the Navy and drew a Navy pension and then worked long enough to earn Social Security and drew both at the same time.
2. No because while you're in the military you contribute to social security too. You'll get both if you stay in the military long enough to retire and you'll get your SS when you're eligible for it.
3. Absolutely not. You pay into your social security while serving and when age eligible you receive both your military pension and social security benefit without it effecting either. Same goes if you become disabled and are receiving a military pension. You will receive it as normal along with your social security disability benefit.
4. Actually at one time it did but the law has been changed so that is no longer true. While in service the individual pays SSIC the same as everyone else but the government does not pay the "employer" matching portion of it so when you retired it used to be you got half credit for the period of time you were in service; that was changed some time agao by eith Reagan late or Bush One. So not effect now.
5. Yes. Your military retirement is considered to be outside income when it comes to determining the taxability of your Social Security check. At present, 85% of my Social Security check is considered to be taxable income.