Despite the existence of the Social Security Trust Fund, surplus money isn't really set aside for pensions.
Down the road, aging baby boomers will steadily drain the surplus in the current fund, and Social Security will need some help to stay afloat.
Either they manage the volatility as best they can - look to Russia as a country doing so very badly - or they stack up the surplus in a trust fund.
According to a report from the Social Security and Medicare Board of Trustees, the Social Security system is expected to be solvent until about 2037 -- largely because of the surplus in the Trust Fund -- even though the payroll taxes flowing in stop being enough to cover the expenses flowing out in 2017.
The economists say that if oil tax delivers more than conservatively planned, that surplus should be put in a fund to handle future shocks.
The federation fund, and the projected surplus, should materialise in 1999, an election year.
The White House says all Medicare money will go into the Medicare trust fund to avoid dipping into the surplus.
Below that, though, the budget surplus diminishes, the conflict over the stabilization fund grows, and the potential for a budgetary strain and liquidity squeeze increases.
Payroll taxes were raised and a surplus generated that is placed in the Social Security Trust Fund, which invests in Treasury bonds.
Universities needed an income surplus of between 3% and 4% a year "for reinvestment and to fund future developments".
Yet the fund also expects the rest of the world combined to run a rising surplus (this includes a big drop in America's deficit).
China's currency and its trade surplus are expected to be key issues at this week's World Bank and International Monetary Fund annual meeting, in Singapore, which will focus on global imbalances in the world economy.
Jobs need to be found for the 150m peasants who, according to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), are underemployed in the fields, and the 10m-11m surplus workers in state enterprises, which specialise in disguising unemployment.
Any surplus would be split evenly between the council's future transport plans and Shrewsbury Town's Community Fund.
The Fund is expected to ask the new government to raise its current target, of a primary surplus of 3.75% of GDP, to perhaps 4.5%.
Meanwhile the Pension Protection Fund (PPF) has calculated that the UK's private sector company pension schemes moved back into surplus in July.
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