• zbyte64@awful.systems
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    3 days ago

    The only reason SS wouldn’t pay out is if you don’t qualify or it is repealed (or they break the operations so it doesn’t work). It will be there when you retire at a reduced rate. If we uncapped the SS contributions the that problem goes away.

    • Broken@lemmy.ml
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      3 days ago

      That depends on when you’re retiring. The money is running out, period. The fact that its running out in the 2030s isn’t news (the article even states this hit to SS only changes things by a year), and that payments will be reduced is true. But a 50 year old will get that radically reduced rate, but get something. A 20 year old really doesn’t have that guarantee, especially with how freely the rules can change by the time they hit retirement age.

      We’re at the tipping point, so of course there’s a lot of upheaval about it, but there really hasn’t been a definitive plan (let alone a good one) on how to change this predicament so that resting on “you’ll get something” seems optimistic at best.

    • forrgott@lemmy.sdf.org
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      3 days ago

      I wish that were true. But it’s getting sabotaged, one little bit at a time. Death by a thousand cuts.