Questions - Social Security - February 6-7, 2014
44% Are Confident They Will Receive All Promised Social Security Benefits
56% Support Right to Choose Your Own Social Security and Medicare Retirement Age
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National Survey of
1,000 Likely Voters
Conducted February 5-6, 2014
By Rasmussen Reports
1*
Do you have a very favorable, somewhat favorable, somewhat unfavorable or very
unfavorable impression of Social Security?
2*
How confident are you that the Social Security system will pay you all promised
retirement benefits during your lifetime?
3*
A proposal has been made that would let people select their own Social Security
retirement age. Those who wanted to retire earlier would pay more in taxes and
those who wanted to pay less in taxes would retire later. So long as they are
paying enough to cover the cost of their own decision, should people have the
right to pick their own Social Security and Medicare retirement age?
4*
(Answered only by 810 under 65 years old) If you had a choice would you be most
likely to pay more in taxes and begin collecting retirement benefits earlier or
would you be most likely to pay less in taxes now and begin collecting benefits
later?
5* (Answered by 375 under 65 years old who said they would pay less in taxes and collect benefits later) Would you be more likely to set aside the tax savings in a private retirement account or would you be more likely to pay current bills with the tax savings?
NOTE: Margin of Sampling
Error, +/- 3 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence