text:  knocking off some of those lower years when he was a kid you know working for the post office or whatever he was doing but that's what a big impact that can make and and it's it's helpful to look at the earnings history as well every once in a while in a blue moon we'll see somebody where there's an error social security administration makes an error so what you're looking for is zeros if you find that you've got a zero in in 1987 like were you really not working that year was that a mistake