Tag: trust fund depletion
Most is due to change in the program’s 75-year horizon. The 2024 Social Security Trustees Report showed a 75-year deficit of 3.50 percent of taxable payrolls compared to a surplus of .02 percent in 1983. While the increase in the deficit over the last 41 years is large, two-thirds of the increase was totally predictab…
The 2024 Trustees Report slightly lowered the projected 75-year deficit to 3.50 percent of taxable payroll, compared to 3.61 percent in 2023. The improvement is attributable primarily to an upward revision in the rate of productivity growth over the projection period and a further reduction…
