Congressional Budget Office<\/a> reveals that the situation is even worse. Specifically, the CBO found that the money is likely to be gone by 2032. That\u2019s one year sooner than the trustees had feared.<\/p>\n
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Here\u2019s why Social Security\u2019s trust fund depletion date is drawing closer, along with some details on what this actually means for you if the money runs out.<\/p>\n
\nWhy is the trust fund scheduled to run out sooner than expected?
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According to the CBO, the trust fund is in worse trouble than the most recent trustee\u2019s report showed for three key reasons:<\/p>\n
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\nThe Social Security Fairness Act eliminated the Windfall Elimination Provision that kept some public service workers from getting their full Social Security benefit if they worked in jobs not covered by Social Security and instead participated in a public pension system.\u00a0\u00a0
\nThe One Big Beautiful Bill Act introduced a new $6,000 deduction for seniors, bringing many bringing many retirees below the income thresholds for taxation of Social Security benefits.\u00a0
\nInflation is expected to be higher than the original projections made by the Social Security trustees. Higher inflation means larger Social Security cost-of-living adjustments, which means more money being paid out of a dwindling pot.
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Unfortunately, all of these factors mean that retirees face a very serious impending risk of their benefits being cut. This, obviously, could create financial hardship for vulnerable retirees.<\/p>\n
\nWhat does this mean for your Social Security check?
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So, what happens if the trust fund\u00a0does run dry in 2032? There\u2019s both good news and bad news.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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The good news is, benefits don\u2019t just end. Many seniors fear they\u2019ll get\u00a0nothing from Social Security if the trust fund is empty, and that\u2019s simply not the case. Money will keep coming into Social Security\u2019s coffers from current workers as well as from retirees paying tax on benefits. These collected funds can be used to pay benefits to retirees, but won\u2019t be enough to pay every dollar of the promised benefits.<\/p>\n
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In fact, various estimates suggest around a 20% to 25% benefits cut would be necessary. So for the typical retiree receiving about $2,000 per month, income from Social Security could drop by around $400 to $500 per month. That\u2019s the very bad news.\u00a0Withstanding such a big cut to benefits would be difficult for many retirees, especially those who rely on Social Security to provide a large percentage of their income.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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Now, Congress probably isn\u2019t going to let that happen. Seniors are a powerful voting bloc, and most lawmakers don\u2019t want to be the ones to cut Social Security benefits. However, the longer lawmakers wait to find a compromise, the worse the situation gets and the more drastic the fixes will need to become.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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So, action is needed\u00a0very\u00a0soon to help ensure that Social Security benefits can continue to provide the funds seniors need to have a secure future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u00a9 Image Source \/ Getty Images Social Security benefits are critical to the financial security of many seniors.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":444664,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[114,268,85,46,266,267],"class_list":["post-444663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-personal-finance","tag-business","tag-finance","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-personal-finance","tag-personalfinance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=444663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444663\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/444664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=444663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=444663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=444663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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