Social Security Benefit Increases Suck

Forget the argu­ment of whether or not Social Security will be avail­able when you retire.

Forget your con­cerns about the amount of your social secu­ri­ty pay­ments, or when to start tak­ing Social Security to max­i­mize the pay­ments for you & your spouse.

Forget, even, the con­cerns about what those pay­ments are rel­a­tive to your Social Security con­tri­bu­tions and how bad a deal Social Security real­ly is.

Let’s pre­tend social secu­ri­ty will be avail­able, the pay­ments will be great, and they will be fair based on your con­tri­bu­tions when you retire…

My Elephant Beats Your Government Every Day of the Week

Over the last 17 months, my Elephant’s sam­ple port­fo­lio has achieved a 16.59% raise. We’re also con­ser­v­a­tive­ly pro­ject­ing an addi­tion­al 13.27% raise over the next 12 months.

After 40 years of work, your gov­ern­ment is giv­ing you a 1.5% social secu­ri­ty ben­e­fits increase next year. That’s the sec­ond year in a row your social secu­ri­ty ben­e­fit increas­es have sucked.

Given the state of the economy/government, do you think it’ll get much bet­ter any time soon?

In fact, my Elephant will get 15 rais­es over the course of the year, every year ((And, the 13.27% pro­ject­ed raise does­n’t include the com­pound­ing that occurs as a result of hav­ing many rais­es through­out the year. That’s one of the four rea­sons the pro­jec­tion is con­ser­v­a­tive. You’ll learn the oth­er 3 if you sign up for our free 10-part email course on cre­at­ing your own Elephant’s Paycheck Blueprint port­fo­lio.)) com­pared to the once-a-year increase you’ll get from Social Security.

Or course our pre­tend world does­n’t real­ly exist. Social secu­ri­ty is not like­ly to be avail­able in 20 or 25 more years, the pay­ments will not be enough to keep you from pover­ty in retire­ment, and it’s over­whelm­ing­ly sad as to how lit­tle you get com­pared to your con­tri­bu­tions.

It’s so easy to put your Elephant to work, what are you wait­ing for?