About Mabank. Mabank, Texas. (Mabank, Texas is located on U.S. Highway 175, near the intersection of Farm Road 90, FM 198, and U.S. Highway 175, sixteen miles southeast of Kaufman, Texas, far in the southeast corner of Kaufman County, Texas. The Mabank, Texas area was first settled by Lorenzo D. Stover in 1846.
A: Your Social Security payment is based on your best 35 years of work. And, whether we like it or not, if you donât have 35 years of work, the Social Security Administration (SSA) still uses 35 years and posts zeros for the missing years, says Andy Landis, author of Social Security: The Inside Story, 2016 Edition.
Notwithstanding the fact that a self-employed person in the private sector would have to earn over $100,000 per year and contribute 12.4% of their lifetime earnings in order to collect the maximum Social Security benefit of $31,704 at age 68, which barely exceeds the average CalPERS pension of $30,546, that average CalPERS pension is based on an average years of service of 19 years.