Isn’t the whole point of a “religious worker” status such that: in exchange for not having to abide by labour laws that include things like paying a minimum wage, benefits, social security, i.e. all the stuff that a normal business would be required to pay for; the religious employer agrees to take on the responsibility of caring for the needs of the worker, including retirement?

I mean, that’s what i thought you had to agree to. “Monks in a monastery” for their entire lives. Am i wrong here?

“The Social Security payment scale is weighted for inflation”

Not really. The gov’t stopped tracking actual monetary inflation around 1972. They now use measures that don’t at all reflect inflation.

“There is a home for elderly SO members…at least there was about ten years ago…I believe it is on Fountain Ave”

Annie, I know the building. That isn’t an SO retirement home. There are about 10X as many SO members who are past retirement time than would fit in that building. Unless they have very “interesting” showers fitted in the bathrooms.

“There could be if they could get the government to pay for it.”
James what are you talking about? I said, “There is certainly no S.O. financed retirement homes.”

“– by not taking care of these people in their old age, they’re almost certainly violating their religious worker contract.”

Wrong James, there is no such clause in SO contract.

I believe it was in 2013 when I was still at AOLA/Big Blue, a retirement facility in nearby Glendale, CA; was taking in “retired” S.O. Members, and there were a handful there. I left the SO just before Christmas 2014 and am now out of Scn as well, not sure if the place in Glendale is still being used or not.

Thanks for the update. I liked Louis a lot. I would help him if I could.