Social Security and foreign pension

Mar 27, 2007 1 Replies

My father is an English medical doctor. He was never a US citizen or a green card holder. He went to medical school in the US and worked for three years in a US hospital. He is disabled from an automobile accident two years ago and getting some form of a pension and UK disability. If he moves here to live with me, will those be taxable? He paid into Social Security while he was working here. Is he eligible for SS payments based on those years? He is 66 if that is important. Melamie



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It takes 40 quarters (10 years) to qualify for Social Security. In addition, he was probably under a totalization agreement when he worked in the US, so even though the payments said SS he may have gotten credit for the work under whatever the equivalent UK system is called.

-Crystal

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