{"id":615710,"date":"2026-06-09T17:19:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T17:19:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=615710"},"modified":"2026-06-09T17:19:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T17:19:14","slug":"social-securitys-retirement-trust-fund-faces-funding-shortfall-one-year-earlier-than-expected-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=615710","title":{"rendered":"Social Security&#8217;s retirement trust fund faces funding shortfall one year earlier than expected"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Social Security&#8217;s retirement trust fund is projected to face a funding shortfall in 2032, a year earlier than last year&#8217;s projections, according to an annual report released Tuesday, while Medicare&#8217;s hospital insurance trust fund will be unable to pay full benefits in 2033, which is unchanged from last year&#8217;s estimate.<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/twt-thumbs.washtimes.com\/media\/image\/2026\/06\/09\/U.S._Capitol_19848_s1440x960.jpg?f72536d07237fdd262042ae8f5e6e6de3b865f3c\" title=\"Social Security&apos;s retirement trust fund faces funding shortfall one year earlier than expected\" \/><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Social Security&#8217;s retirement trust fund is projected to face a funding shortfall in 2032, a year earlier than last year&#8217;s projections, according to an annual report released Tuesday, while Medicare&#8217;s hospital insurance trust fund will be unable to pay full benefits in 2033, which is unchanged from last year&#8217;s estimate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615701,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[17,22,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-615710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-border-security","category-immigration","category-immigration-reform","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=615710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615710\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=615710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=615710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=615710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}