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15. Exactly

Fri Feb 21, 2025, 11:59 AM

Feb 2025

The "running out of money" fear mongering has been going on as long as I can remember. It's always "in the next few years" for the last 4-5 decades.

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What you need to know about Social Security is that it is [View all] PoindexterOglethorpe Feb 2025 OP

It is only PARTIALLY a pay as you go system. In 1983 spooky3 Feb 2025 #1

Congress reserved the right to change SS as they saw fit Kaleva Feb 2025 #2

Congress can change any Progressive dog Feb 2025 #4

Which can't happen if we now live in a fascist dictatorship Kaleva Feb 2025 #5

Obviously Progressive dog Feb 2025 #6

I agree but others here don't. Kaleva Feb 2025 #7

So if you die before collecting you get your money and PoindexterOglethorpe Feb 2025 #8

No; it's a defined benefit plan, not a defined contribution plan. Nt spooky3 Feb 2025 #9

It is NOT a "defined benefit plan." It is social insurance. n/t valleyrogue Feb 2025 #11

It's both of those things. Go to the SSA website. spooky3 Feb 2025 #16

It's not your money. Mariana Feb 2025 #13

Yeah. In something like ten years Progressive dog Feb 2025 #3

For fifty years now people have been saying PoindexterOglethorpe Feb 2025 #10

Exactly DeepWinter Feb 2025 #15

Actually, the date of about 2030 Progressive dog Feb 2025 #17

I'm not the one falsely telling PoindexterOglethorpe Feb 2025 #18

It ain't "going broke." valleyrogue Feb 2025 #12

Ty nt XanaDUer2 Feb 2025 #14