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Social Security faces mandatory 25% benefit cut by 2032 as fund depletes
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Why Everyone Is Drowning In Debt (and how to get out) - Caleb Hammer
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"Social Security is gonna have a mandatory 25% cut in 2032 is what's projected. When there were more workers, we were contributing more money than was going out. That Social Security fund was starting to build. Around early 2000s or something, we started to take more out of it than was going in as the baby boomers started to retire. By 2032, unless something changes, the fund goes to zero."
Hammer warns that Social Security will face automatic 25% benefit reductions in 2032 when the trust fund is depleted, with only incoming taxes available to pay benefits. The crisis stems from the baby boomer retirement wave and declining worker-to-retiree ratios, dropping from 100:1 at the program's inception to roughly 10:1 today. This represents a looming financial catastrophe for current and future retirees.
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