Will I still get my Social Security check?
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Yes. You paid in, you are owed, and your check keeps coming. Texas takes a no-surrender position on benefits Texans earned.
It is your money, and it follows you
Social Security is an earned benefit you pre-paid through a lifetime of payroll taxes, not a favor Washington can withdraw. United States citizens already receive their Social Security checks while living all over the world, and Texans stay citizens through any transition.
The mechanism already exists
The tool that keeps benefits flowing across a border is the totalization agreement, and the United States already runs these with more than two dozen countries. An independent Texas would use the same standard tool, no new invention required.
Texas could carry it from strength
Texas already pays billions of dollars a year more into Social Security than its retirees draw out, and the benefits Washington owes Texans are one of the strongest claims Texas brings to the negotiating table.
The bottom line
Your Social Security check is protected. The full mechanism, including how it is netted at the table, is laid out in the deeper answers.
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