&gt; - Social Security is collected on what I paid into the system while I was living&#x2F;working in the US. Not a part of this<p>Wrong.<p>Your Social Security benefits are <i>proportional</i> 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.<p>The trope that you only get what you put in with SS and Medicare is false.