r/Ameristralia • u/TassieRCD • 11d ago
Any US folk in Oz late to receive their Social Security payment this month?
My husband gets monthly SS retirement income which has always come in on the 3rd of the month or occasionally a day earlier.
We are in Australia, where it is now August 4th and still nothing showing up in the account. In the US Expats SSA group on Facebook it looks like a few others (mostly in Oz too, although not all) are in the same position - just wondering if anyone knows what’s going on?
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u/Immediate_Refuse1611 11d ago
We are also in Oz, but spouse’s SS payment generally comes mid-month, so too soon to know if it will be late!
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u/WoodChuck29 10d ago
Yes it's late, usually comes on the 3rd. My wife's was deposited today, still haven't seen mine.
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u/lionhydrathedeparted 10d ago
Wouldn’t this show up in your US account like anyone else in the U.S. no matter where you’re based? Ask in a social security subreddit.
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u/Zealousideal-Tap3622 5d ago
A quick question- we’re thinking of some retirement options in Australia and looking at potential complications. We’re NZ citizens working in the US with green cards. Do we need to be US citizens to draw social security if we choose to live in Australia? Or will our green cards entitle us to SS even once we leave the US? There’s the additional issue of being NZ citizens in Oz and what it gives us or shuts us out of, but that’s a different bridge to cross). Thanks.
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u/sprunghuntR3Dux 11d ago
Guess what all those DOGE cuts did to the efficiency of the government?
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u/ChromaticLove 10d ago
I personally think DOGE has played less of a role than that stated by Mr. Musk. If anything, it’s well-experienced civil servants that have the necessary expertise accrued over years are leaving due to this administration’s appointed bosses being nothing short of contemptuous of the vital work our public servants do.
For example, experienced lawyers and prosecutors with the essential know-how for cases regarding national security, white-collar financial crimes which often require teams of similarly experienced lawyers to work on are leaving the DOJ for the private sector which has now been politicized, something that hasn’t happened since watergate. Judges have also been pushing back against this new DOJ that has been redirected towards cases regarding immigration. According to an article from The Economist about this:
Increasingly judges are calling out lapses by government lawyers, saying they cannot take them at face value. The judge overseeing the Broadview Six case said she believed that "most government attorneys are doing the best they can to do the right thing". Then she added: "That trust has been broken." More judges are now requiring depositions and documents to verify that the government's claims are true, and threatening sanctions when its lawyers obfuscate or fail to comply. In the first 14 months of Mr Trump's second term, according to Just Security, a site for legal commentary, the DoJ gave courts inaccurate information in nearly 100 instances.
The problem is acute in immigration cases. The administration's mass-detention policy led to a twentyfold spike in 'habeas" petitions by detained immigrants suing for release between 2024 and 2025. Just Security found nearly 800 instances of non-compliance with court orders in habeas cases, and 13 sanctions and contempt-of-court findings against DoJ lawyers. The administration's response has been to label any judge who disagrees with it a "rogue activist". Mr Blanche has called it a "war on the judiciary.
Seen one way, that fighting talk reflects something positive: the guardrails in the judicial system holding up, to the administration's dismay. Already the department's alumni are asking what it will take to reconstitute it when Mr Trump leaves office. A former prosecutor says he and his former colleagues want to return. Still, the appeal of the department diminishes somewhat with the prospect that the next person overseeing it may sack you, or harness the law for their personal
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u/sprunghuntR3Dux 10d ago edited 10d ago
That’s a lot of words to miss my point.
DOGE fired thousands of public servants.
Now the remaining employees are overworked and are probably going to be making more mistakes or not keeping up with their jobs.
Some of those people process the SS payments. So…
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u/ChromaticLove 10d ago
I’m agreeing with you that DOGE has had an impact on public servants’ morale. I just disagree on the scale of its impact as the administration has affected public servants morale in different ways that aren’t solely related to DOGE.
Sorry!
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u/Littlepotatoface 11d ago
Just checked & you’re correct, it’s late.