For Social Security, the Post (3/16/23) outlined a plan to keep the program solvent for the next 75 years. In 2000, when the “full retirement age” was 65, people in the US lived an average of 76.8 years. Over the next 21 years, as that retirement age approached the target of 67 years, life expectancy dropped to 76.4 years. This would harm not just seniors but the millions of disabled workers who rely on Social Security as well. Its first paragraph contained the core message:The top expenses worsening the national debt in the years to come are the rising costs of Social Security, Medicare and interest.

Source: Washington Post June 16, 2023 03:21 UTC