Trustees’ message is clear: Reform Social Security now

Published July 23, 2015 8:59pm ET



The 11 million beneficiaries of the Social Security disability program may have been hoping for good news Wednesday when the Social Security and Medicare trustees released their annual report on the program’s finances. But they didn’t get any.

Instead, beneficiaries learned that nothing has improved in the past year and that in roughly 16 months they’ll all have their benefits automatically cut by 19 percent.

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