Voters Much More Confident in Social Security
Confidence that Social Security will pay out its promised benefits has increased significantly, including among younger voters, who have previously been most skeptical about the program.
The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey finds that 60% of Likely U.S. voters are confident that the Social Security system will pay them all promised retirement benefits during their lifetime, including 23% who are Very Confident. Thirty-seven percent (37%) lack that confidence, with 12% who are Not At All Confident they will receive their full payout. Confidence in Social Security has increased since 2019, when 50% were confident the system would pay them all promised benefits, and is now the highest since Rasmussen Reports began asking this question in 2011. (To see survey question wording, click here.)
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The survey of 1,029 U.S. Likely Voters was conducted on November 13-15, 2023 by Rasmussen Reports. The margin of sampling error is +/- 3 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence. Field work for all Rasmussen Reports surveys is conducted by Pulse Opinion Research.
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