Welcome home, fellow Gator.

The Gator Nation's oldest and most active insider community
Join today!

Social Security and Medicare to deplete in 2033

Discussion in 'Too Hot for Swamp Gas' started by l_boy, Jun 18, 2025 at 8:32 PM.

  1. l_boy

    l_boy 5500

    13,766
    1,855
    3,268
    Jan 6, 2009
    https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/06/18/social-security-predictions-questions-answers/

    Not really big news, but it is 2 years sooner than last years projections That’s a big change in one year. It would have been much worse if Trump had social security tax ended but that was cut of the big terrible bill.

    I did find this interesting:



    They also reassessed their predictions about the U.S. birth rate. While Wednesday’s report still predicts the U.S. fertility rate eventually will reach 1.9 children per woman, up from 1.6 currently, the trustees now see that change fully occurring by 2050, instead of their previous prediction of 2040 — which means a longer period of fewer workers paying into the program.

    Speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss the report before its official release, a senior government official said that a crackdown on immigration — which generally harms Social Security’s bottom line because immigrants pay more money into the program than they claim in benefits — might prevent that fertility rate from ever being realized. “Historically, the immigrant population has had higher fertility rates,” the official said.
     
    • Informative Informative x 1
  2. VAg8r1

    VAg8r1 GC Hall of Fame

    24,157
    2,070
    1,763
    Apr 8, 2007
    Already indirectly mentioned there is a very simple solution to the declining number of workers paying into the system. It's called legal immigration.
     
    • Winner Winner x 1
  3. vaxcardinal

    vaxcardinal GC Hall of Fame

    9,945
    1,384
    2,543
    Apr 8, 2007
    Need another pandemic to get rid of social security and Medicare recipients more quickly
     
    • Funny Funny x 1
    • Optimistic Optimistic x 1
  4. homer

    homer GC Hall of Fame

    3,264
    964
    2,078
    Nov 2, 2015

    I gave you a laugh emoji but at 72 it was a nervous laugh.