Don’t look now, but Social Security’s trust funds are vanishing

Published April 26, 2012 4:00am ET



You had better start increasing your personal retirement savings, because Social Security is fast approaching insolvency. According to the latest Social Security Trustees’ report, released Monday, the program’s combined trust funds will be exhausted by 2033 — three years earlier than last year’s projection and seven years earlier than projections made in 2006.

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