Social Security Beneficiaries Will See A 5.9% Benefit Hike In 2022
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Due to its annual cost-of-living adjustment, existing Social Security recipients will see their gross benefits increase by 5.9% in 2022.
More than 50 million people in the U.S. are, as of late, relying on Social Security for a part of their retirement income. When you also consider that about 180 million have paid into the system, it's evident that the program is serving some foundation to the majority of the people's retirement plans.
Albeit such a fact, its future is pretty much at risk. An example of it is Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen indicating its payments were at risk if the debt ceiling didn't get an increase early this year. To that end, folks should expect these from the program next year.
COLA's 5.9
It's already a known fact that the highest cost of living adjustment (5.9 percent) in 40 years is scheduled to go live next year. Despite being deemed such, it may well seem that it won't be sufficient to keep up the overall inflation that we endured this year. Additionally, according to Motley Fool, the Bureau of Labor Statistics stated that the overall Consumer Price Index was upped by 6.8 percent in the 12 months through November this year.
Social Security funds going gone
Another thing to point out is that, albeit the increased tax burden in funding Social Security, simply under the calendar advancing a year, the date that the program's trust funds are expected to run dry will be earlier than anticipated (projected to be emptied by 2034).
High income=Higher taxes
Next year, the wage base on which taxes from the program are levied will also be upped to $147,000 from $142,800. This is a $4,200 increase in income to Social Security's 12.4 percent tax rate in which half of it will be paid by the employer, and employees will pay the other half.
Likely to do nothing
Social Security has been known to be the "third rail of American politics." It borrows the moniker from electrified train tracks where touching the electricity-carrying third rail may likely result in a person's demise.
Sadly, such infamy simply translates that neither sides have the eagerness to push forward reforms to Social Security until the trust funds are that close to drying out that they have no other choice. For the uninitiated, the last massive reform to the program happened in 1983 – before the trust funds were expected to empty the last time.
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