Ryan grim january 13 2020 2 00 p m.
Social security government spending.
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Government spending for fy 2021 budget is 4 829 trillion.
Congress establishes the mandatory programs.
Those in turn are funded through a dedicated payroll tax of 12.
Mandatory spending requires government expenses on programs mandated by law.
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So while the social security program was off budget and immune from sequestration or other generalized budget cuts its surpluses were still being used to reduce the size of the budget deficit.
It even makes it easy to request a replacement social security card or check the status of an application from anywhere.
It is only this body that can reduce the mandatory expense budget.
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Two thirds of federal expenses must go to mandatory programs such as social security medicare and medicaid.
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So by 1986 social security was technically off budget but it was still being used in the deficit calculations.
Ssa serves millions of social security and supplemental security income ssi beneficiaries each month.
By law social security cannot contribute to the federal deficit because it is required to pay benefits only from its trust funds.
They also administer the supplemental security income program for the aged blind and disabled.
While congress does not set.
The benefits these programs pay are part of the federal government s mandatory spending because authorizing legislation social security act requires us to pay them.
The social security administration assigns social security numbers and administers the social security retirement survivors and disability insurance programs.
Government has to pay for.
I tried with senator grassley back in the 1980s to freeze all government spending including social security including everything biden said in 1995.