If you take out all the fraud in the SSI program, Social Security still crashes, just a decade or so later that it currently is planned to.
The problem with that theory is that if fails to recalculate the reduction in long term payouts without all of the nonsensical claims. If the ONLY payouts that were made were to people that had ACTUALLY paid into the system throughout their life, the system does not crash.
As far as I am concerned, the ‘fraud’ includes those people legally collecting money, but are only legal because people like Clintoon wanted to hide their increased welfare spending. Zero has since added to this abuse, and sadly, GWB did almost nothing to clean it up.
Taking out ALL the fraud would seem to be the best first move,altho not a full solution. The problem with this comes in when everyone has their own idea of where the fraud is. Politicians & bureaucrats can kick this can down the road no longer.