Nearly three-quarters of Americans worry that Social Security checks won’t see them through retirement while 57 percent lack confidence in the future of the program, according to a new survey by the American Association of Retired Persons (AARP).
The August 14 survey (pdf), released 85 years after The Social Security Act brought the program into existence, sought to gauge how important Social Security is to Americans, the degree to which they rely on it as a source of retirement income, and how worried they are about its future.
