Receiving Government Pensions or Old Security, this is for wives in particular
By suspenseful
@suspenseful (40192)
Canada
March 20, 2008 8:47am CST
I was talking or rather my husband was talking about us both receiving Canada Pension and because it was split, I got a tax rebate. Now normally we put the tax rebates into our joint account since we are using it to fix up the basement and my husband said I should have put my Canada Pension into the joint account as well. Now I just figure that my true Canada Pension is the piddly amount I got before I split it, and why would I put all my Canada Pension in the joint account since it will take a longer walk to get it, and my husband would wonder what I need the money for? Besides it would impact on me having to work online longer, and doing myLot for money because I have to and not just because I love to write.
Now I will be about to get my Old Security now. That is what our government gives us over sixty-fives to maybe make up for us having to raise children, not having good paying jobs, during our early supposedly working years. And I was wondering, do you all hand the checks over to your husbands, direct deposit it into the joint banking account, put it all in your separate bank account, or put most of it and then give part of it to help pay bills, for taxes, and expenses?
3 responses
@winterose (39887)
• Canada
20 Mar 08
well I am divorced for 25 years, now, my husband handed all his pay cheque to me and I did what I had with it and gave him a weekly allowance (he was working)
now that I am older and I don't have a husband but a boyfriend who is self employed and manages his own money and I manage mine.
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@suspenseful (40192)
• Canada
22 Mar 08
That is what happened with my mom and dad. Dad have mom his pay check and she took care of everything, but my husband was raised Mennonite and the men handed all the money. That is what the problem is. He thinks I cannot manage money, because in his culture, the men handled the money and therefore their wives and daughters did not learn how to. A vicious circle.
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@winterose (39887)
• Canada
29 Mar 08
thank you so much for best response hon, you are so kind.
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@suspenseful (40192)
• Canada
1 May 08
Your welcome. What you did when you were married is what my mother and father did, when she was still alive. Mother was in charge of the money, because my dad could not handle it. He'd blow it. So he gave the money to her. He later learned how to do it, even bought a new house, but it went to the stepfamily.
@queenofarms (1659)
• United States
21 Mar 08
My husband and I have separtate checking accts. I pay my bills and he pays his. And he gives me money if I need it and vice versa.
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@suspenseful (40192)
• Canada
1 May 08
I have my own checking and savings account, my husband also has his. But we also have a joint checking and savings account for stuff that we both use like taxes, mortgages, etc. It makes it easier in case something happens, the other one can survive before the will is probated, etc.
