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Insolvency fears invariably arise after the annual report gets released. “The government took it out of their pocket whether they wanted it or not”, he said.

These fears are baseless and unwarranted. As a U.S. citizen, you can get your Social Security benefits while living in Belize.

Social Security is a sacred trust and it will be irresponsible for lawmakers to jeopardize the retirement security of millions of seniors by not working to strengthen the program.

“You’d better believe it”, Trump said. He warned against a cut of almost 20 percent in disability benefits if the DI fund is supplanted with tax revenue from employee payroll taxes. The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget has launched a very valuable interactive tool called The Reformer, which allows citizens to choose various policy options to modify Social Security’s tax and benefit levels in order to close the program’s 75-year shortfall and keep it sustainable for future generations.

Commentary by Laurence Kotlikoff, an economist at Boston University and co-author of Get What’s Yours – the Secrets to Maxing Out Your Social Security Benefits.

This estimate depends on a number of economic assumptions about things like real wage growth and distribution, the unemployment rate and interest rates over the next 75 years, as well as demographic assumptions concerning immigration, fertility and life expectancy.

More specifically, Walker indicated that he would support raising the age to qualify for Social Security.

I’ve been saving up some questions from readers who either live, or plan to live, outside the United States. A flat sales tax would capture a share of any income they spent.

Huckabee, however, is one of the few who thinks the Fair Tax is a viable alternative. A more radical approach would remove the wage cap entirely.

But Congress must not put current retirees at risk or subject Social Security benefits to the whims of the stock market.

Too bad. I would have turned this into a real retirement asset if I could have invested my money.

Christie’s views on Social Security are extreme, fringe and totally out of touch with the American people. All in all, Sadowsky feels that Baby Boomers should “ramp up their retirement savings” by making use of tools such as Individual Retirement Accounts, income annuities, and sound planning that can help them make catch-up contributions. These permanent benefit reductions are greater the earlier somebody claims Social Security and the higher the full retirement benefit age is.