Social Security Administration (SSA) commissioner Frank Bisignano has not ruled out raising the retirement age to help shore up the payment system’s solvency.

Speaking on Fox’s Mornings with Maria on Thursday, Bisignano, who was appointed by President Donald Trump earlier this year, said “I think everything’s being considered” when asked by host Maria Bartiromo if he would look at raising the retirement age.

A spokesperson for the SSA told Newsweek that Bisignano “outlined that there are a whole host of items being considered and that eight years is a long way away. While he did say that ‘everything will be considered,’ it was after a much more insightful conversation regarding solvency and how Commissioner Bisignano is making the Social Security Administration easier to access, faster to respond, and better prepared to meet the challenges of tomorrow.”

  • Formfiller@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    39
    ·
    21 hours ago

    Or we could just go back to traditional values and have a 90% tax rate for the super wealthy like in the 50s

    • agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      13
      ·
      16 hours ago

      It’s hilarious that the good-ol’ days they talk about wanting to go back to were built on the most sweeping socialist policies we’ve ever enacted, that were so popular they had to put a cap on getting reelected.

      • girthero@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        1
        ·
        edit-2
        34 minutes ago

        The good 'ol days to them are the pre trust buster era… They sell their base on the post New Deal era.

    • Joeffect@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      8
      ·
      19 hours ago

      No, no… not like that… we just want the slaves and the racism and women to stay home, making babies… thats the great part