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Next in Line for a Bailout: Social Security
Allan Sloan
CNN
Money
Friday, February 5th, 2010
Don't look now. But even as the bank bailout is winding down,
another huge bailout is starting, this time for the Social Security
system.
A report from the Congressional Budget Office shows that for
the first time in 25 years, Social Security is taking in less
in taxes than it is spending on benefits.
Instead of helping to finance the rest of the government, as
it has done for decades, our nation's biggest social program
needs help from the Treasury to keep benefit checks from bouncing
-- in other words, a taxpayer bailout.
No one has officially announced that Social Security will be
cash-negative this year. But you can figure it out for yourself,
as I did, by comparing two numbers in the recent federal budget
update that the nonpartisan CBO issued last week.
The first number is $120 billion, the interest that Social
Security will earn on its trust fund in fiscal 2010 (see page
74 of the CBO report). The second is $92 billion, the overall
Social Security surplus for fiscal 2010 (see page 116).
Full
article here
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