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mahatmakanejeeves

(71,253 posts)
Tue Jun 9, 2026, 01:26 PM 1 hr ago

Social Security retirement trust fund may be depleted in 2032, new trustees report finds

Source: CNBC

Personal Finance
Social Security retirement trust fund may be depleted in 2032, new trustees report finds

Published Tue, Jun 9 2026 11:34 AM EDT
Updated 29 Min Ago
Lorie Konish

KEY POINTS
* The Social Security Administration released a new report on Tuesday with new projections as to when the trust funds it relies on to help pay benefits may be depleted.
* The OASI trust fund — formally known as Old Age and Survivors Insurance, or OASI — will run out in 2032, at which point 78% of benefits will be payable, according to the latest projections.
* While Social Security has never missed a payment, the looming shortfall may prompt benefit cuts unless Congress takes action.


A sign for the U.S. Social Security Administration is seen outside its headquarters in Woodlawn, Md., on Thursday, March 20, 2025.
Tom Williams | Cq-roll Call, Inc. | Getty Images
A Social Security trust fund used to pay retirement benefits may run out in late 2032, three months earlier than what had been projected last June, according to the new Social Security Administration annual trustees report released on Tuesday.

Social Security uses incoming revenue from payroll taxes to pay benefits. When benefit payments exceed payroll tax income, the program relies on the trust funds to help make up the shortfall.

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Read more: https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2026/06/09/social-security-trustees-report-depletion-dates.html

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Social Security retirement trust fund may be depleted in 2032, new trustees report finds (Original Post) mahatmakanejeeves 1 hr ago OP
Call your congresscritters... FalloutShelter 1 hr ago #1
Unless democrats retake Congress we have no chance questionseverything 1 hr ago #3
Call 'em anyway and FalloutShelter 1 hr ago #4
Always. Pester the hell out of them! pat_k 1 hr ago #8
That's great! FalloutShelter 1 hr ago #9
Thanks for posting. yellow dahlia 1 hr ago #10
Agreed Bayard 32 min ago #11
What would the date be if Congress lifts the cap on Social Security contributions? SamuelAdams 1 hr ago #2
Unless we manage to impeach and remove the felon AND co-conspirator Vance in 2027... pat_k 1 hr ago #6
Oh, that's nice, two years after I start collecting at age 70. pat_k 1 hr ago #5
Last year the date was 2033 mdbl 1 hr ago #7
REPUBLICANS have been blocking for DECADES of self rule of Social Security funds to advance non-rich people or the term dave99 23 min ago #12
The GOP's "fix" will be, of course, to cut benefits. LudwigPastorius 12 min ago #13

questionseverything

(12,101 posts)
3. Unless democrats retake Congress we have no chance
Tue Jun 9, 2026, 01:43 PM
1 hr ago

Repubs say ss going broke shows we should all be investing our own money

pat_k

(14,224 posts)
8. Always. Pester the hell out of them!
Tue Jun 9, 2026, 02:12 PM
1 hr ago

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Bayard

(30,505 posts)
11. Agreed
Tue Jun 9, 2026, 02:51 PM
32 min ago

I'm sick of hearing about SS going bankrupt when there are plenty of millionaires/billionaires collecting it. I bet trump does!

This also sounds like another ploy to privatize it, or change it in some idiotic way.

pat_k

(14,224 posts)
6. Unless we manage to impeach and remove the felon AND co-conspirator Vance in 2027...
Tue Jun 9, 2026, 01:59 PM
1 hr ago

...such changes would get a veto 'til they are voted out.

Who knows? After a rout in the midterms, escalating chaos and harms of the war the felon and Vance are incapable of escaping from, and more devasting consequences of the criminal impoundments and decimation of executive agencies, we could actually see enough Republicans get a clue and decide put and end to the insanity.

Then Jeffries (or whoever wins the speakership) is sworn in and begins the monumental task of building back better.

pat_k

(14,224 posts)
5. Oh, that's nice, two years after I start collecting at age 70.
Tue Jun 9, 2026, 01:50 PM
1 hr ago

I'm looking forward to walking dogs 'til I can't walk anymore.

mdbl

(8,849 posts)
7. Last year the date was 2033
Tue Jun 9, 2026, 02:11 PM
1 hr ago

It will probably get worse if Congress doesn't act. Where are all the GOP morons at The Villages?! They should be harassing their worthless reps in Washington about this day and night.

dave99

(347 posts)
12. REPUBLICANS have been blocking for DECADES of self rule of Social Security funds to advance non-rich people or the term
Tue Jun 9, 2026, 03:01 PM
23 min ago

WORKERS !

Imagine the world of easy transition from Work to Retirement ... Republican Nightmare -- not a good person in the political realm.

LudwigPastorius

(15,156 posts)
13. The GOP's "fix" will be, of course, to cut benefits.
Tue Jun 9, 2026, 03:11 PM
12 min ago

Fuck that.

How about cutting Trump's war and his continued theft of taxpayer dollars?

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