Questions - Social Security - January 31-February 1, 2013
56% Support Right to Choose Your Own Social Security and Medicare Retirement Age
59% Have Favorable Opinion of Social Security
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National Survey of
1,000 Likely Voters
Conducted January 31-February 1, 2013
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* 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? (Answered only by 832 voters under 65
years old)
5* 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? (Answered only by 419 voters
who are under 65 years old and would pay less taxes now)
NOTE: Margin of
Sampling Error, +/- 3 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence