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Posted on 06/15/2026 6:58:20 PM PDT by Red Badger
According to data contained in the latest trustees report, the main retirement fund for Social Security is now projected to run off in the fourth quarter of 2032, which is a date in the not-so-distant future, which stresses the need for younger folks like millennials and subsequent generations to start focusing on building a retirement nest egg on their own.
The 2026 Social Security Trustees Report revealed that the Old-Age and Survivors Insurance Trust Fund, which doles out retirement and survivor benefits, will be completely depleted in the last quarter of 2032. When that happens, the program would still be collecting payroll tax revenue, but would only be able to pay 78% of scheduled benefits unless Congress takes action.
This means that beneficiaries are looking at a reduction of 22% in monthly checks if lawmakers fail to find a way to shore up the system before projected date. The report also stated that combined Social Security trust funds which includes retirement and disability benefits will be depleted in the third quarter of 2034. By that time, the combined program would be able to pay out 83% of scheduled benefits.
According to a report from Trending Politics News, the latest projection moves up the retirement fund’s depletion from previously expected dates. The 2032 date is one year earlier than what was projected in the trustee report from 2025. “One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA): Enacted on July 4, 2025, this law makes permanent the lower income tax rates and adjusted tax brackets originally enacted under the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act and both increases and makes permanent the larger standard deduction of the 2017 Act,” the report went on to say.
“The OBBBA also adds a temporary additional standard deduction for taxpayers over age 65. As a result, less income tax will be paid on Social Security benefits, and the OASI and DI Trust Funds will receive lower levels of revenue in the future from income taxation of Social Security benefits,” the report continued. The warning comes as the Social Security program still remains one of the largest and most relied upon federal programs in the United States.
The TPN report revealed that there are tens of millions of Americans who depend on the monthly benefits they receive from the program for their retirement income, survivor benefits, or disability support. However, the program has been under pressure for many years as more Americans hit retirement age and birth rates decline, translating into fewer workers to support each beneficiary.
The trustee report made it clear that the insolvency of the Social Security program doesn’t mean it’s going to vanish into thin air. Workers across the United States would still be paying into the system and benefits would still go out. The issue is that with less payroll tax revenue coming in, the amount wouldn’t be enough to cover the full promised benefits once the reserves are empty.
“Lawmakers could raise payroll taxes, reduce future benefits, change the retirement age, increase the wage cap subject to Social Security taxes, borrow more money or pursue some combination of reforms. But politically, Social Security has long been one of the most difficult programs to touch,” the TPN report went on to say concerning possible steps that could be taken to rectify the situation.
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It was alwaya a scam
I’ve been hearing this since the 1950s.
Giving the money away to illegals.
Gonna be awesome.
I’ll bet that if congressional paychecks were “set to experience a 22% reduction by 2032” that they would have a fix for it before the end of the day. It was estimated back decades ago that illegals cost this nation between $450 BILLION dollars a year and $650 BILLION. THAT FIGURE IS very likely over $1 TRILLION dollars today.
Weird how we can find all kinds of money for illegals and for terrorist nations, but we just can’t find money for elderly, sickly, and veterans who paid into a system that should have been self sustaining with proper investments
Invest 1% of SS revenue in Musk companies now.
Even if we lose all of our SS income we’ll still be able to survive. But it will require some minor adjustments to our lifestyle.
What’s the status of the Illegal Alien and Welfare Queen trust funds?
Yeah, thought so. Flush with cash forever.
just remove the cap on social security taxes and the problem will be solved.
Not if that’s our only jncome.
Or the country could produce more jobs. Therefore creating more payroll deductions into social security. It seems that one is on the way.
But somehow Ukraine just got 1.8 billion of our tax dollars. What a joke .
Only US citizens are to receive any "benefit payment".
Any money wasted on foreign aid goes to the Fund.
I'm willing to be if DC put an average citizen in charge of the budget this mess could be fixed.
As long as payments increase on a corresponding basis.
There is no fund.
It keeps getting kicked down the road. Our congress critters remember Danny Rostenkowski being assaulted by blue haired little old ladies when they tried their last “adjustment”.
At the current annual drawdown ($200 Billion, subject to change due to more retirees and/or less people paying in) there are 11.69 years left in the main retiree fund (not the disability fund):
https://www.ssa.gov/OACT/STATS/table4a1.html
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