Who’s gonna pay for your Social Security?
Planet Money
- Published
- September 30, 2026
- Duration
- 29:13
- Summary source
- description
- Last updated
- Oct 21, 2026
Discusses Very soon, Social Security may not have enough money to make full payments to retirees. Very soon. L…
Summary
Very soon, Social Security may not have enough money to make full payments to retirees. Very soon. Like by 2032, just six years from now. So what are we gonna do about it? Today on the show, we look at some of the most talked about possible solutions; and exactly whose wallets we’ll have to rifle through to find the money to pay for each. Then we’ll run t…
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Very soon, Social Security may not have enough money to make full payments to retirees. Very soon. Like by 2032, just six years from now. So what are we gonna do about it? Today on the show, we look at some of the most talked about possible solutions; and exactly whose wallets we’ll have to rifle through to find the money to pay for each. Then we’ll run the options by the Social Security Administration's former Chief Actuary. The guy Congress used to call to crunch numbers and give them the bott