A Former Bethelite Said WTS Did Pay Social Security in the USA.

OnTheWayOut

A former Bethelite who served in the 70's said that Bethel USA did pay social security for all the Bethelites. She would not give any details like, whether it was a tiny amount based on their stipend or what. I mean, earning your quarters is still a great thing. Anyone know the scoop on what they actually paid?

compound complex

OTWO:

This piqued my interest. Checked my SS Statement - on average my taxed earnings were about $800 per year while at Bethel. We were the first - circa 1969 - to fill out the forms; I remember it well.

CC

cognac

So, what do you think this could mean for the BORG?

dissed

Only wage earners pay SS. So why didn't they pay the assessments and workmans comp?

As a JW employer, if you dnidn't pay the stuff and got in trouble with the Govt. you were in a heap of trouble with the WTS. "Render to Ceasar.."

compound complex

Taxed Medicare earnings are listed in the identical amounts.

CC

Billy the Ex-Bethelite

My Social Security statement reports $0 for every quarter that I served in Bethhell.

Well, perhaps those Social Security payments have been invisibly present since 1914.

leavingwt

They DID pay FICA taxes for Bethelites -- until they started the Vow of Poverty thing. This allowed them to stop doing so.

ALL of the old-timers draw a Social Security check each month. This is because WT submitted the necessary payments for them.

lrkr

I was there from 90-98. The whole time I was there Legal was to prepare our taxes. The only income reported was cash I made G-jobbing (taking vacation time and working- usually on a construction site- for cash)

Now I realize why Legal prepared the taxes- so that no one reports the "reimbursement" as income- Sold to us as a "service" - actually a control mechanism and work around to make sure they avoided employment taxes!! The only up side was that I got a great college scholarship when I left- because it was income based!!!

OnTheWayOut

The only up side was that I got a great college scholarship when I left- because it was income based!!!

Take that Watchtower. You showed them.

Gayle

I will have to try to get my son help me to do a copy and paste somehow to this site, a copy part of my "Your Social Security Statement" that shows individual years of "Your Earnings Record". I went in mid-1969 so I had earnings for part of that year before for Bethel. But under "Your Taxed Social Security Earnings": shows: 1970 - $837, 1971 - $901, 1972 - $968, 1973 - $953

The Treasurer's office took care of our taxes and we had to sign a form that any IRS mailed to us, we authorized the Treasurer's Office to open and to handle, we never got copies. These amounts were the total of our $14/mo, maybe some subway tokens value, an annual clothing allowance of $100, and the rest was for the value of room and board.

So on this, Social Security, uses the term "Earnings". So "leavingwt", you say they stopped this? When?

A Former Bethelite Said WTS Did Pay Social Security in the USA.

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