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Latest Fact-Checks In Social Security

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Jeff Merkley
Jeff Merkley
stated on August 7, 2014 a roundtable discussion with senior citizens:
"Social Security has never contributed one cent to the deficit. Not one cent."
Half-True
By Dana Tims • September 8, 2014
Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee
Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee
stated on August 18, 2014 a campaign ad:
Says Iowa Republican Senate candidate Joni Ernst "would privatize Social Security."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • August 21, 2014
Martha Robertson
Martha Robertson
stated on August 12, 2014 a campaign ad:
Says Rep. Tom Reed, R-N.Y., "voted to raise the Social Security retirement age on us."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • August 19, 2014
stated on February 23, 2014 comments on NBC's "Meet the Press":
"Chained CPI would save $1 trillion in the second decade off the federal budget debt," a report shows.
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By Jon Greenberg • February 23, 2014
Marcy Kaptur
Marcy Kaptur
stated on April 11, 2013 House of Representatives floor speech :
"The Social Security trust fund is sound. Without anything being done, it would function well into 2038; and even after that time with no changes, we could pay 80 percent of the benefits that people have earned."
Half-True
By Sabrina Eaton • May 15, 2013
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on December 30, 2012 in a tweet:
"Report that #GOP insisting on changes to Social Security as part of #fiscalcliff false. BTW those changes are supported by @barackobama."
Half-True
By Amy Sherman • January 4, 2013
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on September 2, 2012 a speech:
Says Republicans Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan support "massive cuts in Social Security for future generations."
Half-True
By Dave Umhoefer • September 5, 2012
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on August 20, 2012 a radio ad:
Says Paul Ryan "tried to change the whole game" for Social Security
Half-True
By Joshua Gillin • August 28, 2012
Saxby Chambliss
Saxby Chambliss
stated on April 23, 2012 a speech:
Each U.S. House member who voted to overhaul Social Security in 1983 was re-elected.
Half-True
By Eric Stirgus • May 8, 2012
Rick Santorum
Rick Santorum
stated on February 22, 2012 a Republican presidential debate in Mesa, Ariz.:
"When I was born, less than 10 percent of the federal budget was entitlement spending. It's now 60 percent of the budget."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • February 23, 2012
Newt Gingrich
Newt Gingrich
stated on November 22, 2011 a Republican presidential debate in Washington, D.C.:
In Chile "they have 72 percent of the GDP in savings."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • November 28, 2011
Herman Cain
Herman Cain
stated on October 4, 2011:
"Current projections indicate that Medicare will go bankrupt by 2017, while Social Security will bottom out by 2037."
Half-True
By Willoughby Mariano • October 14, 2011
Herman Cain
Herman Cain
stated on September 12, 2011 a Republican presidential debate:
"Today, when people retire in Galveston County, Texas, they retire making at least 50 percent more than they would ever get out of Social Security."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • September 13, 2011
Ed Schultz
Ed Schultz
stated on August 25, 2011 MSNBC's the "Ed Show," Aug. 25, 2011:
"In (Sen. Marco) Rubio's state of Florida alone, Social Security lifts more than -- count it -- a million people out of poverty."
Half-True
By Becky Bowers • September 1, 2011
Margaret Carlson
Margaret Carlson
stated on August 9, 2011 a politics column.:
Rick Perry "has advocated abandoning Social Security, scuttling Medicaid and ending the federal income tax."
Half-True
By W. Gardner Selby • August 28, 2011
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on July 12, 2011 an interview with CBS News:
Social Security and other federal checks may not go out on Aug. 3 if the debt ceiling is not increased.
Half-True
By Angie Drobnic Holan, Louis Jacobson • July 13, 2011
Herman Cain
Herman Cain
stated on June 13, 2011 a Republican presidential debate:
Says an alternative to Social Security that operates in Galveston County, Texas, has meant that participants will "retire with a whole lot more money" than under Social Security.
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • June 17, 2011
Amy Kremer
Amy Kremer
stated on May 17, 2011 an interview on "The Colbert Report":
"We bring in enough tax revenue to service our debt, pay for Medicare and Medicaid and Social Security, and then still have about $300 (billion) or $400 billion left over."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • May 20, 2011
Rick Scott
Rick Scott
stated on February 23, 2011 comments to employees at the Department of Business and Professional Regulation.:
Says Florida's pension plan faces the same long-term funding problems as Social Security.
Half-True
By Aaron Sharockman • February 25, 2011
Joe Sestak
Joe Sestak
stated on October 11, 2010 a campaign commercial:
Pat Toomey "still supports privatizing Social Security."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • October 20, 2010
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