Tag: Trust fund exhaustion
Social Security does need fixing, but Congress should debate and vote in full view. Last month, I got an invitation to a forum on “Trust Fund Solutions,” which means Senator Mitt Romney (R-UT) is still pushing his TRUST Act. One of the bill’s co-sponsors – Senator Angus King (I-ME) – also appeared on the program.&nbs…
But bottom line is easy: Congress needs to fix the nation’s most valuable program. The 2021 Social Security Trustees Report, which usually comes out in the spring, emerged in the last week in August. That’s not surprising given a new Administration and a somewhat more complicated story than usual. Although the Trustees assert that COVID…
