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发帖数: 29846 | 1 领取联邦政府提供的退休金的美国人创历史新高，882万；领取退休金金额也创历史新高
Record 8.82 Million Collected Social Security Disability Benefits
Wednesday, December 26, 2012 06:58 PM
By: Todd Beamon
The number of workers collecting Social Security disability benefits reached
a record 8.82 million in December, up from 8.80 million in November,
according to new data from the Social Security Administration.
The number of those receiving Social Security benefits — including retirees
, dependent family members and their survivors, and disabled workers and
their dependent family members — also set a record in December, jumping to
56.75 billion in December from 56.65 billion the previous month.
Overall, the Social Security program ran a $47.8 billion deficit in fiscal
2012 — bringing in $725.4 billion in cash and paying out $773.2 billion in
benefits and expenses, according to the data.
The United States had an average of 112.5 million full-time workers in 2011,
according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Of that number, 17.8 million
people worked full-time for local, state or federal government agencies.
That left an average of only 94.7 million full-time workers in the private
sector that year, according to BLS data.
As such, for every 1.67 Americans who worked full-time in the private sector
last year, there is now one person collecting Social Security benefits, CNS
reports.
But despite the overall deficit, the Social Security Administration booked
an on-paper gain of $64.5 billion in the Social Security Trust Funds.
That resulted from the U.S. Treasury paying the trust funds $112.3 billion
in interest in fiscal 2012 on the historical surpluses in Social Security
taxes that the Treasury took out to cover other spending by the federal
government.
As of the end of calendar year 2011, the Social Security Trust Fund equaled
approximately $2.678 trillion, according to the agency.
The last time the Social Security program ran a “net cash flow” surplus
was in fiscal 2009. That year, the agency’s revenues exceeded its benefit
and overhead payments by $19.3 billion.
In fiscal 2010, Social Security ran a $36.8 billion deficit — and it ran a
$47.9 billion deficit in fiscal 2011.
The agency administers two Social Security Trust Funds: the Old Age and
Survivors Insurance Trust Fund and the Disability Insurance Trust Fund.
The OASI Trust Fund pays benefits to retired workers and their families and
to families of deceased workers, CNS reports. The disability insurance fund
provides benefits to disabled workers and their families.
The trusts are required by law to return all surplus revenues to the
Treasury — and the Treasury then provides “special issue” non-marketable
bonds, essentially electronic IOUs, to the trusts in return for the cash.
These "IOUs" become part of the national debt.
When the Treasury pays "interest" that increases the value of the Social
Security Trust Funds, it does so by increasing the number of IOUs it owes
the trusts, CNS reports.
When the Social Security program runs a “net cash flow” deficit, the
Treasury must borrow cash from the public to keep the program financed.
As of Dec. 21, the federal debt was $16.336 trillion, CNS reports. | m*********a
发帖数: 3299 | 2 in millions
$2678000存款
收入
$112000利息收入
$725400年收入
总收入
$837400
支出
$773200
净收入
$64500
如果这是一个家庭，是非常健康的。
也不会去砍开支。
结论,应给加大medicare 和medicaid 的开支.扩大覆盖面。
否则，以前那一代存下来的钱怎么花的完？ | z******a
发帖数: 5381 | 3 赞算术
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: in millions
: $2678000存款
: 收入
: $112000利息收入
: $725400年收入
: 总收入
: $837400
: 支出
: $773200
: 净收入
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