There is no saving these programs without massive changes.
Gee Moe wouldn’t it help if they stopped paying all the millions of illegals from cradle to grave cut other wasteful spending .....................................
There is no way to save these programs at all. There never was. The people who got elected making these promises knew very well that their promised systems would eventually crash - long after they were beyond earthly retribution. Their plans worked. Perhaps they are roasting in Hell now. We can hope so.
And so, here we are. The current generation of politicians are not going to fix anything. They are going to cut and run for retirement with whatever they can steal from the lobbyists and corporations who fund them.
Social Security benefits will continue to be paid for quite a while longer. Hyperinflation and taxation will make them worth almost nothing. Natural and accelerated death rates will keep the eligible population down to manageable numbers. That and raising the retirement age to 75 or 80.
People not in the system right now are going to be badly shorted and they will be rightfully pissed. Even more so as they realize that "voting" and "elections" are merely pretenses which change nothing.
Old people can be sneaky fighters, but civil war is a game for young men. They are the ones who will determine what comes next. A critical mass is very small - less than ten percent of the total population can be decisive.
The revolutionary governments which arise after the collapse will make the whole issue moot.