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    Reality of Social Security: If Reform Doesn't Happen, What Must Each of Us Do?. Journal Of Accounting & Finance (2158-3625), 14(2), 124-134. In this article, they give potential reformation and privatization thoughts. Additionally, there are statistics and predictions to back their thoughts. The predictions are about both the potential and actual futures of Social Security. This article is predominantly useful for using numbers to determine the best potential path to make with Social Security. McCormally

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    Social Security: A Brief History

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    American adult citizen is aware of the Social Security Administration. Every payday, each working American has tax deduction for Social Security on their payroll stubs and these deductions are recorded on their W2 forms at the end of the year. If they have older parents or disabled family members, then they would be aware of Social Security Disability Income (SSDI) and/or Social Security Income (SSI). Many young people are not conscious of life before Social Security, how disabled or elderly citizens

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    acts as a security blanket. Americans love the idea of knowing they are “safe;” safe physically, mentally, and financially. A man named Robert Kiyosaki once said, “When President George W. Bush attempted to reform Social Security, that proposal was more unpopular with Americans than the Iraq War. People love their entitlements.” No matter what a person’s views are about the role of the federal government, a numerous amount of people will still be interested in collecting Social Security when they

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    Social Security Reform A little over 60 years ago the nation struggled through what was, up to then, the most dramatic crisis since the Civil War. The economy was uprooted after the crash of the stock market and the country's financial stability destroyed. One of the many steps taken to alleviate the burden on the American people was that of the passing of Social Security Act of 1935 and its amendments by Congress and the President, Franklin D. Roosevelt. Under the provisions of the Act

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    Many Americans believe that the social security program will face a crisis in this century because of funds running out. The fear of the people is that he government’s funds will be bankrupt when those people try to retire. Already a quarter of most Americans believe that they will receive no benefits from social security; what can we do about the social security problem? The reason that the problem is occurring is because of pay-as-you-go financing, demographic changes, the adoption of wage-indexing

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    Social Security Privatization Growing up as a kid, not so many young people knew much about Social Security. Some kids might have believed that is was just a nine digit card that their parents kept until they were old enough to take care of it, others knew that it was much more. Social Security is a certain percentage that comes out of your paycheck and into a system. Once it’s in the system the government uses that money that was taken out for people with certain benefits. For example, people

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    wait for the current social security services to run aground, many of the retirees and elderly will be left to sell the little they own to loan sharks and other loaners. Privatizing the Social Security program allows citizens to take responsibility and care for their own fund, brings the current system back to financial competence, allow regular people to retire wealthy, increase stock market value, and reduce wasteful spending by the government. Privatizing social security will allow citizens to

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    an aftereffect of changes to Social Security authorized in 1983, advantages are presently anticipated that would be payable in full on a timely basis until 2037, when the trust fund reserves are anticipated to end up exhausted. At the point where the reserves are spent, proceeding with expenses are relied upon to be sufficient to pay 76 percent of planned advantages. Subsequently, the Congress should roll out improvements to the scheduled benefits of social security assessment of disability and

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    Many of the federal and state programs that provide income security to U.S. families have their roots in the Social Security Act (the Act) of 1935. This Act provided for unemployment insurance, old-age insurance, and means-tested welfare programs. The Great Depression was clearly a catalyst for the Social Security Act of 1935, and some of its provisions—notably the means-tested programs—were intended to offer immediate relief to families. However, the old-age insurance program—the precursor to today's

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    that have changed the standards to permit individuals to fit the bill to receive unemployment benefits and social security benefits at the same time. As indicated by the Transamerica Center for Retirement Studies, around 33% of workers in their 50's anticipate that social security benefits will be their essential source of salary in retirement. Marte let her readers know the Social Security Administration has said that unless something is done to change the system, it will need to lessen benefit

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