But the nation's 41 million Social Security recipients are getting more from the system than they put in.
Roughly 800,000 Social Security recipients have some of their benefits reduced.
Social Security recipients would be most directly affected by any change to the cost-of-living formula.
The $800 or so per month that Social Security recipients get is not a lot of money.
Social Security recipients got a 4.7 percent increase in benefits last January.
For Social Security recipients, there's good news on another front, too.
There are more than 52 million Social Security recipients nationwide.
Each year we review the records for all Social Security recipients who work.
In any event, many Social Security recipients are under 65.
The benefits report focused on a category of Social Security recipients born from 1917 to 1921.
