Social Security's AS IS Forecast
(Slow Growth Scenario)

Two images from our online Social Security Solvency Simulator.

Benefits and Charts 1, side by side.
Note the effort to maintain payable benefits at 100% of scheduled benefits.
Note the outcome. Payable benefits drop to 67% of scheduled benefits by the end of the forecasting period.
Note the URL for the simulator. That's part of the image as well.

Results Page. You can use the settings on this page to recreate our results for yourself.

Note the "Benefits Actually Paid" line - $361 Trillion, paid through 2075.
Note the cumulative GDP figure - $7,500 Trillion, through 2075.
Note the estimated GDP growth rate of 1.6% (real growth, over and above inflation).
This is the growth estimate used throughout the Trustees' Report.

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