Social Security Facing $63 Trillion in Unfunded Liabilities

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Findings complement other reports identifying the fiscal deterioration of Social Security.

Social Security is facing $63 trillion in long-term unfunded liabilities, according to the 2024 Old-Age, Survivors, Disability Insurance (OASDI) trustees report.

The report looked at two things: how much money will be missing indefinitely and how much will be missing in the next 75 years. The report determined that there will be a permanent $62.8 trillion deficit and about a $23 trillion shortage for the next 75 years.

Officials explained that these numbers show how much less money they will have after the money saved up in trust funds runs out.

โ€œThe annual shortfalls after trust fund reserve depletion rise slowly and reflect increases in life expectancy,โ€ the report reads.

โ€œThe summarized shortfalls over the infinite horizon, as percentages of taxable payroll and GDP, are larger than the shortfalls for the 75-year period.โ€

OASDI trustees noted that the shortfall could be eliminated if the combined payroll tax rate was raised to โ€œabout 17.0 percentโ€ or if there was a โ€œpermanent reduction in benefits for all current and future beneficiaries by about 26.5 percent.โ€

Laurence Kotlikoff, professor of economics at Boston University, told The Epoch Times that assessing the current infinite unfunded liability is imperative.

โ€œThereโ€™s nothing in economics that says you should just look at 75 years and assume everybodyโ€™s going to be dead the day after,โ€ Kotlikoff said.

โ€œItโ€™s like operating on half of the cancer, removing half a cancer, and telling your patient to come back in 10 years, and when they do, itโ€™s twice as big, and youโ€™re operating out on half.

โ€œ[Thatโ€™s] the practice here in our country dealing with Social Security.โ€

This is not the first report to spotlight the deteriorating fiscal state of the retirement scheme and other federal programs.

In February, the Treasury Department released the โ€œFinancial Report of the United States Government.โ€

It concluded that U.S. taxpayers face more than $78 trillion in long-term unfunded obligations for Social Security and Medicare.

Byย Andrew Moran

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