Future Social Security Recipients with Similar Life Expectancies Have Fewer

question 147

Multiple Choice

Future Social Security recipients with similar life expectancies have fewer benefits relative to older people who have already been receiving them for a while because:

• A) Social Security payments are now no longer paid out when the government has a budget deficit.
• B) the retirement age when one becomes eligible for Social Security will likely increase.
• C) Social Security payments have fallen as a percentage of the federal government's spending.
• D) Social Security payments are not indexed to wages.

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