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US federal social insurance program (OASDI) that pays retirement, disability, and survivor benefits, funded mainly through payroll taxes.
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Relief for older and disabled homeowners keeps widening in Texas. That leaves first-time buyers still inside the school levy pricing an increase nobody has yet measured for them.
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Schroders' 2026 retirement survey asked pre-retirees when they expect to claim and where their income will come from. The answers describe intent, and the advisor commenting on them says fear is pulling some claims forward.
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New Census figures put the adjusted poverty rate for the 65-and-over at 15.4%, up from 9.4% in 2020. The prices behind the move are medical bills and residential care, and both run through working-age households too.
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Debt held by the public went from 32% of GDP to 100% in a quarter century, and the budget hawks' own decomposition says removing any one of tax cuts, new spending or crisis response would have left it near where it started.
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Gross federal debt of $40.05 trillion against a $1.8 trillion deficit means the stock grows 4.5% a year before any interest compounds, and with unemployment at 4.1% there is no cycle left to explain away the arithmetic.
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CRFB's return ratios describe cash that has already moved. What a planner can use is narrower: the 2032 date and the size of the cut that follows.
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Gross federal debt reached about $40.047 trillion on August 18. The trillion added since March annualises to a $2.4 trillion issuance pace and roughly $31 billion of fresh annual interest.
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A generation with 20% of the population owns more than half of US household wealth, but the top decile holds 71% of it and the average boomer carries $92,619 in debt.
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A new scenario model puts household numbers on the fiscal path: $53,000 in extra lifetime mortgage payments for a 2031 buyer, and a $705 monthly hole for retirees by 2033.
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John Larson and Bill Cassidy both lost primaries and exit Congress in four months, with the trust fund set to empty in 2032 and benefits scheduled to fall 22.5 percent.
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The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget puts the average hit at about $500 a month. Retirement plans built on full scheduled benefits now carry a dated, quantified downside.
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