Comprehensive and meticulously documented facts about Social Security. Learn about Social Security's taxes, benefits, financial status, reform options, and more. For example: • Taxable Maximum • Causes of Fiscal Problems • Old-Age Benefits • “Looting the Trust Fund” • Personal Ownersh...
The Senate is reportedly set to vote on a bill boosting Social Security payouts to public sector workers who receive pensions and did not pay taxes to support Social Security while working in the public sector… If it passes, the proposal will cost nearly $200 billion… That’s because this ...
Social Security Retirement Age Chart TheSSA retirement age chartcalculates how your monthly payout will be reduced by if you start receiving them early. It also shows that the reduction percentage decreases as your birth year approaches 1960. ...
Currently, the Social Security Board of Trustees projects program cost to rise by 2035 so that taxes will be enough to pay for only 75 percent of scheduled benefits. This increase in cost results from population aging, not because we are living longer, but because birth rates dropped from thr...
Here's where deciding when to take Social Security gets a little tricky. First of all, know that if you die single and childless, all the Social Security you would have received after age 62 will go to nobody. Unlike a will orrevocable living trust, the government doesn't pay out your...
they would impact your safe withdrawal rate calculations. True, but there are still plenty of unanswered questions. For example, how do I evaluate and weigh the pros and cons of different options, like starting Social Security at age 62 vs. 67 vs. 70 or receiving a pension v...
Here's another great chart on the historical Social Security's Maximum Taxable earnings, by yar. A Strategy To Pay Less FICA Taxes There's a problem with the FICA tax because Social Security and Medicare are so poorly run by the government. The government itself estimates thatSocial Security ...
Danny’s wife Sandy did not work outside the home. When Danny files for his own Social Security Benefit, Sandy is looking forward to receiving a Spousal Benefit based on Danny’s record. But Sandy will be surprised to find out that the amount of her Spousal Benefit will not...
Lump Payout * When Social Security first began, beneficiaries could take their benefits as a lump sum.[92] The earliest reported applicant for a lump sum Social Security benefit was Ernest Ackerman of Cleveland, OH. Mr. Ackerman retired one day after the program began and paid $0.05 in So...
So I’ll simply share this chart showing the dramatic change in the age-dependency ratio between now and the end of the century. The bottom line is that America’s Social Security – and systems in other nations that also are based on the pay-as-you-go approach – are doomed. The nati...