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Social Security Fast Facts

The Pew Research Center on August 18, 2015 released the FactTank  5 facts about Social Security (the FactTank is “[r]eal-time analysis and news about data from Pew Research writers and social scientists.”). So what are those 5 facts? Here you go!

  1. Social Security touches more people than just about any other federal program.

  2. Social Security is, and always has been, an inter-generational transfer of wealth.

  3. Right now, Social Security has plenty of assets.

  4. But since 2010, Social Security’s cash expenses have exceeded its cash receipts. 

  5. Social Security’s combined reserves likely will be fully depleted by 2034….