Tag: Social security trustees
What does exhaustion of the trust fund mean? The 2018 Social Security Trustees Report, released last week, shows that the program faces a 75-year deficit of 2.84 percent of taxable payrolls – virtually unchanged from last year’s projection of 2.83. The Old-Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance (OASDI) trust fund continues to be scheduled for exhaustion…
Acting soon allows baby boomers to share the burden and reduces the size of the changes. The 2015 report from the Social Security Trustees shows a slight improvement in the system’s finances from last year. The deficit over the next 75 years declined from 2.88 percent of taxable payrolls in 2014 to 2.68 percent in…
