Tag: Social Security finances

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Trustees Report continues to show 75-year deficits and exhaustion of trust fund in early 2030s. The 2024 Social Security Trustees Report repeats the drumbeat that the Social Security program faces a deficit equal to 3.50 percent of payroll over the next 75 years and that its trust fund is scheduled for exhaustion in the early…

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It has temporary benefit increases, is greedy on the COLA, and overreaches on revenues. The original Social Security 2100 Act, released in 2019 by Congressman John Larson (D-CT), then Chair of the House Ways and Means Sub­committee on Social Security, was terrific.  The legislation retained, and even slightly enhanced, benefits and substantially increased revenues to…