Posted by: arbiter July 23, 2015
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Ok after doing a little more research, I myself am clearer on the payment of these benefits.
Even non residents or citizens can get the benefits if they have accrued enough credits. Did your father accrue credits himself or taking the credit of someone else (e.g. spouse etc)?
Say, he accrued the credit himself. If he was a citizen of one of the listed countries in this bulletin ( Page 5 of this bulletin: http://www.socialsecurity.gov/pubs/EN-05-10137.pdf), then he would have been able to receive the benefits even if he retired in Nepal. But Nepal is not one of those countries listed, so he will not get that benefit.
Now if he decides to go back to Nepal anyway, he will receive SS benefits for 6 months, after which the payments will stop...UNLESS the person meets one of the following exceptions:
•You were eligible for monthly Social Security benefits for December 1956;
•You are in the active military or naval service of the United States;
•The worker on whose record your benefits are based had railroad work treated as covered employment by the Social Security program;
•The worker on whose record your benefits are based died while in the U.S. military service or as a result of a service-connected disability and was not dishonorably discharged; or
•You are a resident of a country with which the United States has a social security agreement (NEPAL not in the list)
So, long story short, your father won't get the benefit for more than 6 months if he retired and went back to Nepal. Of course, the SSA may always change the list of countries, at which point things could change. But Nepal being on that seems very unlikely.
Even non residents or citizens can get the benefits if they have accrued enough credits. Did your father accrue credits himself or taking the credit of someone else (e.g. spouse etc)?
Say, he accrued the credit himself. If he was a citizen of one of the listed countries in this bulletin ( Page 5 of this bulletin: http://www.socialsecurity.gov/pubs/EN-05-10137.pdf), then he would have been able to receive the benefits even if he retired in Nepal. But Nepal is not one of those countries listed, so he will not get that benefit.
Now if he decides to go back to Nepal anyway, he will receive SS benefits for 6 months, after which the payments will stop...UNLESS the person meets one of the following exceptions:
•You were eligible for monthly Social Security benefits for December 1956;
•You are in the active military or naval service of the United States;
•The worker on whose record your benefits are based had railroad work treated as covered employment by the Social Security program;
•The worker on whose record your benefits are based died while in the U.S. military service or as a result of a service-connected disability and was not dishonorably discharged; or
•You are a resident of a country with which the United States has a social security agreement (NEPAL not in the list)
So, long story short, your father won't get the benefit for more than 6 months if he retired and went back to Nepal. Of course, the SSA may always change the list of countries, at which point things could change. But Nepal being on that seems very unlikely.