Saving Social Security

The retirement trust fund is projected to run out before the middle of the century. Here's how the presidential candidates plan to keep it alive.

By Walter Updegrave, Money Magazine senior editor
Mitt Romney's plan
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Mitt Romney's plan
Private accounts? Maybe

Hiking the wage cap? No

Stand on reforming the system:
Would consider private accounts (favors putting any surplus in them); no changes for those 50-plus.

Proposal to pay for the funding gap:
Favors indexing benefits to inflation; might lower benefits for those in the highest income brackets.

Saving Social Security
Hillary Clinton
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John Edwards
Bill Richardson
Rudy Giuliani
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