> - Social Security is collected on what I paid into the system while I was living/working in the US. Not a part of this Wrong. Your Social Security benefits

> - Social Security is collected on what I paid into the system while I was living/working in the US. Not a part of this Wrong. Your Social Security benefits are proportional to what you put in (usually), but you will receive more money than you put in and more money than you money earned over that time period, assuming a normal life expectancy. The trope that you only get what you put in with SS and Medicare is false.