Social Security money drains from PR top the states.
Boricua:
One very important contribution that PR makes to the national economy specifically is the payment of Social Security taxes and the benefits Puertorricans receive in exchange for those contributions. Even tough PR is not a state it does pay millions of dollars in SS taxes every year. But since the population of PR is relatively young, If you compare it for example to the state of Connecticut( and all of New England for that matter) where the mean age of the population is much much higher, the majority of the SS taxes paid in PR do nor revert to the island as benefits but goes to monthly payments to this "older" states. In other words, PR's are maintaining the social security trust fund for the other states while it receives very little of it's contributions to the fund, due to that difference in the median age of its contributors. Some people put this figure at more than $50,000,000 a year! This is a BIG BIG resource that PR send to the mainland every year.
The SSI is NOT a benefit, it is WELFARE plain and simple. It has nothing to do with a pension based on taxed income for contributions to a retirement fund, people do not pay into an SSI fund.
SSI is the ONLY federal aid, out of 27 that every state receives that PR does not receive.
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