First of all,there should be absolutely NO illegals getting anything except what is necessary to get them out of our country.. There should be nothing else of any kind coming out of S.S. funds. There are those people,who upon retiring,will never need their S.S. funds,but they paid in all those years,so not sure what is the answer in that case. Any S.S. fraud should mean an automatic jail sentence for anyone convicted. No income tax should come out of S.S. in any way when you draw. Taxes on it were already paid once. Privatization of the funds is a consideration,since the politicians have not been up to the task of running the system fairly. S.S. raises need to be honest raises;not offset by an equivalent increase in Medicare. When Medicare absorbs the raise in “benefits” there really is no raise to cover inflation. There is more that could be done,but that’s good for starters.
Legal ponzi scheme.
But reform is difficult because dems will scare old people, who’s votes we rely on.