This is news?
The Congress spent that surplus faster than a crack whore.
There is no money. There is no “surplus.” Anyone who seriously believes this is just crazy.
Anyone under the age of 50 who thinks any government promised pension or SS was real is going to be sadly disappointed.
You want to see a government agency that is required to fully fund their pensions? Look at the Post Office. How are they doing?
I'm 55, and you will color me quite shocked if I ever receive so much as a thin dime from it. Never have planned to get any. Don't particularly intend to "retire" as such anyway. "Social Security" has always been nothing but another tax that is essentially a welfare-like wealth transfer from the young to the old.
If I could have opted out of it, I would have.