The way I understand it, Congress has used the money generated by SSI
payments to fund other federal spending. And now government is faced
with the issue of a shortfall in funding SSI recipients as a result of
the "baby-boom" bulge in the retirement aged population.

Also, when SSI started, there were a huge number of wage earners who
were being tapped to pay for the retirements of a small number of
workers. This spread the burden around very thinly. The pyramid has
inverted.

Jose
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