Senior pass increase

Renee, you should get it. You will qualify under either the statute or maybe DOI regulations...not sure, probably regulation.

Yes, Cummins, those same folks running into the store from their handicapped parking space.

Dennis12 wrote:
I cant believe your complaining that your not getting old enough quick enough.

This is the best posting yet, in this thread. I'm 61, turning 62 in April, 2018 and am really looking forward to it for my Senior Pass. My husband says I should not push it!!!

We FS CG camp often and that means 1/2 off, but what amazes me are the $5 campgrounds being $2.50. Yes, some can't afford much and this rate is much appreciated, as it is for us, but we can afford more. That's such a piddly amount to pay. With rates like this it must be hard for the FS to make ends meet, but then again, the majority of campers are probably not seniors. Regardless of the rate by the time I turn 62, I will be celebrating by going to the local FS office on my birthday and purchasing my Senior Parks Pass!!!

"Any person with disabilities is entitled to be issued an Access Pass which has exactly the same benefits as the Senior Pass and is free"

You mean the same folks that hang their wheelchair shingle on their rear view mirror and then dash into the store????

No, Jplanted, not "what you can get" but rather what you were promised and/or any additional as determined by Congress. Lots of vets are disabled but not for a service connected reason. That makes them a vet and disabled, not a disabled vet.

Lwiddis wrote:
"UH, who is da guvment?" AH...youse and me, Cummins?

Resetting a old and currently unrealistic price isn't greed, Wa8, and the senior pass requirement is age, not paying taxes. Rather than calling names, work with your representatives to change it back...but that's more challenging than ranting on this forum about GREED. Not specific either as to the "greed."

Any person with disabilities is entitled to be issued an Access Pass which has exactly the same benefits as the Senior Pass and is free regardless of being a veteran or not.

suprz wrote:

jplante4 wrote:
If you served your country, you deserve whatever you can get. People are getting a lot more from the government for doing absolutely nothing. No one should begrudge a retiree for anything. Semper Fi.

Well said.
Semper Fi

^^^^ Let me bounce in here and X2 that!

jplante4 wrote:
If you served your country, you deserve whatever you can get. People are getting a lot more from the government for doing absolutely nothing. No one should begrudge a retiree for anything. Semper Fi.

Well said.
Semper Fi

If you served your country, you deserve whatever you can get. People are getting a lot more from the government for doing absolutely nothing. No one should begrudge a retiree for anything. Semper Fi.

Paw paw, I believe your numbers...better First or Master Sergeant, to be accurate. What industry or government doesn't base retirement payments on highest income at retirement? Social Security certainly does. In the military, as you know, it's based on rank and service length. Not new...well known. My experience shows there isn't a "lifer" that doesn't know what another two years and/or increased rank won't do for the pension, and nothing wrong with that except complaining.

Lwiddis wrote:
Supra, you are naive.

A military retiree/ veteran who is 62 or older likely entered the US military before 1975. If they served 20 years and retired before 1996, the HIGHEST ranked enlisted receives no more than about $2,200 per month. At the time of retirement their retirement pay was about $1,600.

(I retired in 1992, as an E-8, with 50% of my base pay - $1,087 - per month.

Military retirement pay is taxable income. When most military retirees reach Social Security age and start receiving SS payments, their military retirement is usually enough to make at least 1/2 of their SS benefit taxable.

Active duty military do pay SS just like everyone else.

I know military retired colonels/ USN captains who retired in the 70s who get less than $1,500 per month.