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Between 1975 and 2008, the OASI was subject to ten actual revisions and three minor legislative revisions. An 11th revision is under discussion in 2009. This is a pay-as-you-go pension system, the law on occupational pensions (2nd pillar) being a funded pension system. The OASI also allows for a (partial) redistribution of wealth. [2]
While FICA payroll taxes accounted for 90% of Social Security’s revenue in 2021, AARP reported, most of the rest was funded through the OASI trust fund and interest earned by the fund.
However, due to interest (earned at a 3.6% rate in 2014) the program will run an overall surplus that adds to the fund through the end of 2019. Under current law, the securities in the Trust Fund represent a legal obligation the government must honor when program revenues are no longer sufficient to fully fund benefit payments.
The Social Security bill Kamala Harris co-sponsored would also increase the special minimum benefit for lifetime low-earning workers to 125% of the federal poverty level and index it in future years.
For employees and employers combined, the OASI payroll taxes are 10.6 percent and the DI payroll taxes are 1.8 percent. In 2022, trust fund reserves for the OASI and DI programs were $2.7 trillion and $118 billion, respectively. Income taxation of some Social Security benefits brought in $47.1 billion for OASI and $1.6 billion for DI in 2022. [5]
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The OASI's asset reserves are projected to be depleted by 2033. U.S. Old-Age and Survivors Insurance Trust Fund Assets at End of Year data by YCharts . Social Security's shortcomings may not be ...
An important aspect of self-funded group health plans lies in the requirement that the employer remain liable for funding of plan claims regardless of the purchase of stop-loss insurance. What this means, in turn, is a fund or company's own bank account creates a pool of their employees and is managed & distributed to claim payouts.