Rather the federal government has borrowed this money by selling the social security administration ssa special issue bonds and is using it to fund various line items in its general budget.
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It is only this body that can reduce the mandatory expense budget.
Government spending for fy 2021 budget is 4 829 trillion.
Government has to pay for.
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Mandatory spending requires government expenses on programs mandated by law.
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They also administer the supplemental security income program for the aged blind and disabled.
It even makes it easy to request a replacement social security card or check the status of an application from anywhere.
Two thirds of federal expenses must go to mandatory programs such as social security medicare and medicaid.
Those in turn are funded through a dedicated payroll tax of 12.
Social security and medicare are the largest mandatory programs the u s.
The social security administration assigns social security numbers and administers the social security retirement survivors and disability insurance programs.
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Congress establishes the mandatory programs.
While congress does not set.
So by 1986 social security was technically off budget but it was still being used in the deficit calculations.
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Ssa serves millions of social security and supplemental security income ssi beneficiaries each month.
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The benefits these programs pay are part of the federal government s mandatory spending because authorizing legislation social security act requires us to pay them.
So while the social security program was off budget and immune from sequestration or other generalized budget cuts its surpluses were still being used to reduce the size of the budget deficit.