What Everyone Gets Wrong About the Future of Social Security

What Everyone Gets Wrong About the Future of Social Security

This isn't a comforting thought to those who depend on their Social Security checks to pay their bills, but the news isn't as dire as you might think. Here's why you don't have to worry about Social Security disappearing in your lifetime. When people say that Social Security is going to disappear by 2035, what they really mean is the program's trust funds are projected to be depleted by then, according to the latest Social Security Trustees Report.