Poll: Large Majority of Americans Want Changes to Save Social Security

If nothing is done, benefits will be cut by about 25 percent across the board within the next 10 years or so, according to the Social Security Administration.

Blank Social Security checks at the U.S. Treasury printing facility in Philadelphia, Pa., on Feb. 11, 2005. William Thomas Cain/Getty Images

A significant majority of Americans favor congressional changes to save Medicare and Social Security amid concerns that both entitlement programs will become insolvent in the coming years.

A poll from the Taxpayers Protection Alliance, a nonprofit advocacy group, found that 87 percent of likely voters believe that members of Congress should work to ensure Social Security’s solvency to avoid cuts to recipients’ benefits.