Benefits Quote by Ginny Brown-Waite

Since 1935, this has been a pay-as-you-go system, and I always believed when I first started talking about Social Security that there was a…

— Judy Biggert

As I think all Americans understand on both sides of the aisle, the Social Security system as it is structured today is a pay-as-you-go…

— John Shadegg

Social Security was always supposed to be basically in theory an insurance program where you pay in and then you get out.

— Judd Gregg

There seems a general rule that, the more obviously one’s work benefits other people, the less one is likely to be paid for it.

— David Graeber

Well, let's go back to the original intent of Social Security. It is an insurance contract.

— Chuck Hagel

All of us who serve in the House of Representatives and the Senate pay into Social Security.

— Virgil Goode

The money that goes into Social Security is not the government's money. it's your money. You paid for it.

— Mitch McConnell

Through good times and bad, American workers and their families have been able to rely on Social Security to provide guaranteed protection against the…

— Sander Levin

Social Security should have a self-sustaining portion that was funded by contributions from both employers and employees. That's what we know and have known…

— James Roosevelt

“The reality is that Social Security is not a government handout. It is a benefit that is earned and paid for through hard work.”

— David Cay Johnston

As you know, Social Security functions under the premise that today's workers will help finance benefits for retirees and that these workers will then…

— Steve Israel

Social Security is a promise that we cannot and must not break.

— Bernie Sanders