Tag: Trustees Report

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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…

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Outlook virtually unchanged from last year. The Social Security program faces a 75-year deficit of 2.66 percent of taxable payrolls – virtually unchanged from last year.  Largely because of the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015, the life of the Disability Insurance trust fund – which was scheduled for exhaustion in 2016 – has been extended…