I notice that Cambodia is on the very short list of countries where an SS recipient cannot be mailed Social Security checks - Cuba, North Korea, Cambodia, Vietnam or areas that were in the former Soviet Union (other than Armenia, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Russia). Can they be mailed to the embassy for pick-up? Is anyone on the forum receiving SS in Cambodia?
I turn 62 in six months, have a few bucks saved, a TESOL certificate and a decent ESL resume, and am looking for my place in the sun. I was in Cambodia in 2006 and Laos last year, and have been thinking about either Vientiane or PP.
I did a search on this, but didn't find anything. Thanks for any info.
Collecting US Social Security in Cambodia
It is done in Vietnam. A friend picks his up from the US consulate in Saigon.Oldboy wrote:I notice that Cambodia is on the very short list of countries where an SS recipient cannot be mailed Social Security checks - Cuba, North Korea, Cambodia, Vietnam or areas that were in the former Soviet Union (other than Armenia, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Russia). Can they be mailed to the embassy for pick-up? Is anyone on the forum receiving SS in Cambodia?
I turn 62 in six months, have a few bucks saved, a TESOL certificate and a decent ESL resume, and am looking for my place in the sun. I was in Cambodia in 2006 and Laos last year, and have been thinking about either Vientiane or PP.
I did a search on this, but didn't find anything. Thanks for any info.
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If it's deposited directly into your account in the U.S., make sure your Asian wife/girlfriend does not know your ATM code, otherwise she and her family could kill you and then dispose of your body and collect the benefits indefinitely.
Better if you have to pick it up and cash it in person at the embassy. It will give you an excuse to get out of the house every month, and it will provide good insurance against whacking.
Better if you have to pick it up and cash it in person at the embassy. It will give you an excuse to get out of the house every month, and it will provide good insurance against whacking.
OP here. I'm still in the States, still working, still thinking about making the move. Another trip planned for June-July. I have only been to Cambodia in November and December previously, although I've been elsewhere in the region at different times of year, and lived a year in Thailand, 1988-89.
I could now retire with a bit more than last year, both saved and monthly income, than when I posted the original in this thread. Certainly enough to have a decent if not lavish situation. I'll probably try to stay working one more year.
Great advice about not sharing ATM PIN codes. Good counsel anywhere.
I could now retire with a bit more than last year, both saved and monthly income, than when I posted the original in this thread. Certainly enough to have a decent if not lavish situation. I'll probably try to stay working one more year.
Great advice about not sharing ATM PIN codes. Good counsel anywhere.
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My workmate went to the US embassy to make inquiries about this very matter only last week.
For the record, they WON'T pay into a Khmer bank account and the applicant has to present themselves in person at the embassy for each and every payment with various kinds of ID.
I'm told that this rule was introduced after the authorities realized that the almost all US retirees in Thailand and the Philippines collecting their SS money directly into their local bank accounts were managing to live past 100 and were well set for immortality.
For the record, they WON'T pay into a Khmer bank account and the applicant has to present themselves in person at the embassy for each and every payment with various kinds of ID.
I'm told that this rule was introduced after the authorities realized that the almost all US retirees in Thailand and the Philippines collecting their SS money directly into their local bank accounts were managing to live past 100 and were well set for immortality.
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Yeah, but really tough to get away with, if you are married. Better to have an account that the wife does not know about, or that she does not know can be accessed by ATM. You can always be tortured for the PIN, as happened to a retiree in the Philippines last year before his wife and her accomplices killed him. The police said he apparently held out for quite awhile, presumably because he knew that was the only thing keeping him alive. Even the murdering bastard P.I. cops were disturbed by what had happened, based on the condition of his corpse.Oldboy wrote:Great advice about not sharing ATM PIN codes. Good counsel anywhere.
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When I retire to SE Asia to live off my meager investments, I will spend all day surfing the internet, but tell the wife I am "working" and that the investment income is really wages. That way, she will want to keep me alive to keep the money coming in.
Didn't Playboy get kidnapped for his ATM code in Hungary? I hear they tortured him by making him drink American beer.
Didn't Playboy get kidnapped for his ATM code in Hungary? I hear they tortured him by making him drink American beer.
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He will have to collect the checks in person from the embassy and there is absolutely no way around that. Apparently, before this rule was enforced, the US was finding that its retirees in Thailand regularly lived past the age of 100.Sorry to revive an old thread but I need help.
My dad, who will retire next year, asked me about how to go about collecting his social security here in Cambodia. He lives in Kompong Cham so is there any other way to collect without taking a trip to the embassy every month?
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