Filed under: Retirement, Economy
For years, people have worried about whether Social Security and Medicare would be around when they needed the benefits that those two programs provide. On Monday, worriers got bad news: The programs are closer to running out of money.
The government released the latest versions of the annual Social Security and Medicare Trustees Reports on Monday, and the results were troubling:
- The combined trust fund that holds funding reserves for the overall Social Security program is now expected to...
More Bad News on Social Security and Medicare Trust Funds originally appeared on DailyFinance.com on 2012-04-24T06:00:00Z.
