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Igel

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7. Everything that increases draw-down affects it.

Reply to bigtree (Reply #2)

Fri Feb 27, 2026, 06:31 PM

Friday

This game's been going on for more than just the past year.

I'm a teacher. A law in the not-so-recent past lets me collect more OASI now than I could have in 2024. That helped the CBO's estimate, since it quickened the draw-down of the 'trust fund'.

It was a bad thing to mention this at the time.

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Everything that increases draw-down affects it. Igel Friday #7

raising the income cap for Social Security's payroll tax to address the shortfall bigtree Friday #9

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