Some people act like Social Security becomes some sort of ‘special’ crisis because it will not pay for itself by year 20xx (pick a year).
Flash news. Government spending is unsustainable. Coming soon - $1T annually just to pay the interest on the debt. At least Social Security brings in some money via workers and companies.
They will just continue to finance more debt to pay for SS and everything else. No one can do much about this runaway spending.
SSI and SSDI are what’s killing SS more quickly. SSDI is just the easy way for some, who haven’t reached retirement age to check out and live off SS type income. SSI is for incapapble people who have never qualified or worked enough on SS to get SSDI. And while SSI isn’t really coming from SS funds per se, they DO administer the program and incur costs from it.
Go look at most SS offices today. They are crammed with SSIs, SSDIs and Old foreigners with their US Citizen children trying to get them on SS with the very minimum of working quarters or by reciprocal country agreements.