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Social Security benefits are now based on an average of a worker's 35 highest paid annual salaries with zeros averaged in if there are fewer than 35 years of covered wages. The averaging period could be increased to 38 or 40 years, which could potentially reduce the deficit by 10% to 20%, respectively. [citation needed]
In 2009, nearly 51 million Americans received $650 billion in Social Security benefits. The effects of Social Security took decades to manifest themselves. In 1950, it was reported that as many as 40% of Americans over 65 were still employed in some capacity, but by 1980 that figure had dropped to less than 20%.
Dwight D. Eisenhower. On Sept. 1, 1954, President Eisenhower dramatically expanded Social Security to include 10 million more Americans in the Old-Age and Survivors Insurance Program.The fund was ...
1973 - Social Security Benefits Increase, Pub. L. 93–233 1977 - Social Security Amendments of 1977, Pub. L. 95–216 1980 - Social Security Disability Amendments of 1980, Pub. L. 96–265
The rule changed through the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015, making it so anyone who turned 62 after Jan. 1, 2016, could no longer maximize Social Security benefits in this way.
“The main point of the Biden plan for Social Security, which Kamala Harris has publicly supported, is to increase the maximum wage base to $400,000,” said Devin Carroll, owner and lead advisor ...