1. Social Security is spending more money in benefits than it's taking in.
2. If Social Security benefits continue to be based on wages rather than inflation, workers’ taxes are going to go up, which means less money for them.
3.New congressional estimates say the trust fund that supports Social Security disability will run out of money by 2017, leaving the program unable to pay full benefits.
4.The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office projects that if Congress does not act, Social Security will run deficits every year until it eventually runs dry in circa 2037 (ABC News).
Reformation does not mean an immediate end to Social Security, but no reform guarantees its collapse.