Snapshots of What Happens When the Social Security Trust Fund Is Exhausted: Alternative Contingency Policies

Quickly apply original, key PMR-published papers with Snapshots—a short article companion that distills PMR research into compressed, digestible takeaways, so you can put the paper’s core ideas to work in your investment process—fast. This Snapshot article is based on research arguing that a temporary net-worth means test, adapted from Australia’s public pension plan and limited to beneficiaries ages 62–74, could close Social Security’s projected funding gap while protecting poorer recipients better than broad benefit cuts.