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EPI Issue Guide: Social Security

Changes in trustees' projections over time
Trustee report date

1996

1997

1998

1999

2000

2004

Year when tax revenue falls short of benefits

2012

2012

2013

2014

2015

2018

Year when trust fund income falls below expenditures

2019

2019

2021

2022

2024

2028

Trust fund depletion date

2029

2029

2032

2034

2037

2042

Shortfall as a share of taxable payroll

2.19%

2.23%

2.19%

2.07%

1.89%

1.89%

Source: Annual Reports of the Board of Trustees of the Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance and Disability Insurance Trust Funds, 1996-2004.

 

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