Social Security was a hot topic as the Bush administration pushed for reform in 2005 with little luck.
The U.S. government has announced the amounts recipients will get in social security will rise 3.3% for 2007. This is a smaller gain than in 2006 and it seems even smaller when you see that inflation wipes out that gain and more.checks for nearly 49 million Americans are going up by 3.3% in 2007, a smaller percentage gain than this year, the government announced Wednesday.
49 million Americans receive social security and on an average their payments will rise $33 a month to $1,044 a month as a total average payment.
While it seems like peanuts this obviously has an impact on the U.S. budget and will bring into question–again–this issue of reform.