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Donors raise $233,000 to give US cart pusher, 90, chance at retirement (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 5 months ago by unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de to c/orphancrushing@lemmy.world

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[–] Fermion@feddit.nl 14 points 5 months ago (1 children)

You might want to check your calculator again. $233k * .05 = 11.65k

I agree that this isnt anywhere close to lavish retirement money but if he withdraws $20k/ year plus takes his full social security payments, he can probably replace the cart pusher wages. So that's still retirement money, just a modest retirement.

[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago

Thanks. I probably mashed a wrong button somewhere. 11k+ is definitely better, but still poverty added to his SS benefit.