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I use a FIDO key for ID.me, and use ID.me to log in to myssa. I also use a FIDO key for Login.gov

Social Security payments could suffer interruption soon as DOGE causes ‘system collapse,’ former commissioner warns—‘start saving now’ https://fortune.com/2025/03/03/social-security-payments-benefits-interruption-doge-cuts-system-collapse-retirement-disability/ Social Security has never missed a payment. DOGE actions threaten ‘interruption of benefits,’ ex-agency head says https://www.cnbc.com/2025/03/01/doge-actions-may-cause-social-security-benefit-interruption-ex-agency-head.html

Clean up on aisle three.

Trump Whitehouse Pill Mill...spent $750,000 of the taxpayers money. Oof The White House has a pharmacy – and it was a mess, a new investigation found A White House pharmacy doctor allegedly told staff to 'hook up' someone with a controlled substance 'as a parting gift for leaving the White House' https://www.foxnews.com/politics/the-white-house-has-a-pharmacy-and-it-was-a-mess-a-new-investigation-found https://media.defense.gov/2024/Jan/09/2003373440/-1/-1/1/DODIG-2024-044_REDACTED SECURE.PDF

Groceries too. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALYxulsOOfE

You probably could look up the PNR on the issuing airline's website, with your last name and get the breakout.

Thanks. I'm wondering if anyone, not working in Thailand and 'affected' by this new rule/interpretation, has paid any tax? I don't read every thread by 100 % of those I've read always result in zero tax paid.

Trump tamed Lil Marco in 2016. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7p_ltuXcOH4

China may have some higher fee/tax. Need to see the breakout with codes.

And they also use this "calendar" which IME is accurate and correct.

Yes, of course. They change hundreds of times each day: currency changes. But AoT doesn't want to split out the 300 baht. If they did, this would have happened already. I think the total PSC is now 750 PSC 700 TS International Departure Fee 15 G8 APPS Service fee 35 E7

Nepo Baby.

This has proven to be a stumbling block for the years that Thailand has wanted to add a tourist tax. Airlines/Rez Systems are reluctant to add yet another line item, and collect/remit the funds, in a hundred different curencies. If they increase the 700 baht fee to 1,000 then AoT will have to cough up 300 baht, they don't want to do this. I think they can get the TDAC system to price in the 300 baht for non-thais.

Thanks for this valuable nugget. So your Thai RD office deemed the sum total of your transfers associated with your SSA benefit to be "NON-ACCESSIBLE" income? And therefore you or they did not include it on your tax return? Example: monthly benefit $2,000, annual $24,000, transferred a total of $25,000. And if I could ask you (or others) to speculate; if you had transferred more than the sum total of your SSA benefit - $25,000, would just that overage, $1,000 be considered "Accessible" Income? Or would any overage throw the total into the Accessible income bucket? I think know the answer, but I'm never sure here. Yes, the $1,000 could be pre-2024 savings, and is obviously below the taxable thresholds. A minor aside...Did RD look at your gross benefit (pre-tax) or net (post-tax) benefit total, if you had any withholding?

Yes, Thailand new number 1 export. Highly profitable. Although I'm questioning the nearly 9 BILLION USD (over five years) figure. Sounds like an NFL contract, without the signing bonus.

Yes, that is the proper configuration if you want to use GV behind a VPN.

How quaint.

Do you have a network-wide VPN or are you running it on one device? Is that the same device that is running Google Voice? What is "SF"? The VPN target city? Again, if it's working just carry on.

It depends on your network configuration. Where are you running your VPN? That said, if it works carry on.

They did say the TDAC would be free, but that was last week. Charging 300 baht for TDAC solves the collection issue, and the issue of not charging Thais. But maybe they'll hold the 300 baht fee for the ETA? The thirst for a 10.5 Billion baht slush fund, managed by the Minister of Tourism and Sport is palpable.

Let's all agree that the elimination of fraud is a good thing. https://oig.ssa.gov/assets/uploads/a-06-21-51022.pdf

Nothing wrong with being Number 2.

Can you share the bank name? When did you first notice this change? There has been a crackdown, particularly on foreign-owned accounts which may be "mule" accounts. So various banks have implemented new procedures re: "Know Your Customer". https://thainews.prd.go.th/nbtworld/news/view/886333/?bid=1 Currently many banks require that phone number name matches account name, that the current passport is scanned and on record, that a separate photo is made and on record, and that a facial scan is made and on record. https://www.bangkokbank.com/en/Personal/Tips-and-Insights/DepositCashviaATM https://www.bangkokbank.com/en/Personal/Tips-and-Insights/ I'd suggest you stop by the Bank/Branch's customer service department and verify that all documentary requirements are satisfied.

Francis Perkins would kick Elon and Rogan's ass. What a Confederacy of Dunces this pair makes. I feel sorry for their gullible audience. MeidasTouch overtakes The Joe Rogan "experience"... https://podcastcharts.byspotify.com/

But if you spend that down under 400k, or below 800k in the pre-ext window, you lose your permission to stay. If Elon had wielded a scalpel at CPAC I'd be less concerned. However, he brandished "The Chainsaw of Bureaucracy". Chainsaws can be imprecise. And Elon's impression of foreign males who live in Thailand is not flattering. Hopefully he's distracted caring for his 14th child (XIV?), but any tweet can set him off. I would never direct deposit my SocSec benefit into my Thai bank account. I have it deposited in the U.S. and then SWIFT some to Bangkok Bank monthly. This provides more flexibility for me in case I relocate back to the U.S., or elsewhere where the funds are more easily accessible.