Action: 2025 Annual Reports of the Boards of Trustees for the Social Security and Medicare Trust Funds What it does: Last week, the Trustees of the Social Security and Medicare Trust Funds released their reports on the current and projected financial status of the two programs. Under the intermediate (best estimate) assumptions, Social Security’s Old-Age and Survivors Insurance (OASI) Trust Fund will be able to pay 100% of total scheduled benefits until 2033, unchanged from last year’s report, at which point the fund’s reserves will be depleted and the program can only pay 77% of total scheduled benefits. Medicare’s Hospital Insurance (HI) Trust Fund that pays Part A benefits will be able to pay 100% of total scheduled benefits until 2033, three years earlier than previous projections. At that point, the HI Trust Fund reserves will be depleted, and Medicare can only pay 89% of total scheduled Part A benefits. The Trustees note that lawmakers in Congress “have many options for changes that would reduce or eliminate the long-term financing shortfalls. Taking action sooner rather than later will allow consideration of a broader range of solutions and provide more time to phase in changes so that the public has adequate time to prepare.”Key Insights
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