2016 – The projected year in which Social Security will begin to incur cash flow deficits, as outlays exceed revenues. Year of trust fund exhaustion – 2037.
2017 – Projected year in which Medicare’s Hospital Insurance Trust Fund reserves will be exhausted.
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Source: Journal of Financial Planning
Mark Brandly, an economics professor at Ferris State University, gives us this honest analysis of social security…
"The solution is to give workers a negative rate of return on the money that is taken from them."