{"id":699112,"date":"2026-06-12T05:24:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T05:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/699112\/"},"modified":"2026-06-12T05:24:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T05:24:09","slug":"new-report-warns-social-security-trust-fund-could-run-short-by-2032","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/699112\/","title":{"rendered":"New report warns Social Security trust fund could run short by 2032"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Va. (WSET) \u2014 Millions of Americans rely on Social Security every month, but a new report warns those checks could shrink.<\/p>\n<p>The 2026 Social Security Trustees Report said the program&#8217;s trust fund could be depleted by 2032.<\/p>\n<p>With Americans&#8217; Social Security on the line, officials are looking for solutions.<\/p>\n<p>SEE ALSO: <a href=\"https:\/\/wset.com\/news\/nation-world\/social-security-requiring-paper-check-recipients-to-move-to-electronic-payments-trump-administration-ssa-treasury-department\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Social Security requiring paper check recipients to move to electronic payments<\/a><\/p>\n<p>We asked U.S. Senator Mark Warner about possible fixes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve had a plan for Social Security for over a decade that said we&#8217;ve got to raise the cap so those of us who&#8217;ve done well can pay more in,&#8221; Warner said.<\/p>\n<p>Warner suggests taxing higher-income earners on more of their wages.<\/p>\n<p>He says that could help avoid benefit cuts for future retirees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Va. (WSET) \u2014 Millions of Americans rely on Social Security every month, but a new report warns those&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":699113,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[28,147,530],"class_list":["post-699112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-personal-finance","tag-business","tag-personal-finance","tag-personalfinance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=699112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699112\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/699113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=699112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=699112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=699112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}