社会保障局局长弗兰克·比西尼亚诺周一表示，该计划将再持续90年。
Frank Bisignano, the commissioner of the Social Security Administration (SSA), said Monday the program will last another 90 years.
“这是一段漫长的旅程。它已经90岁了。它还将继续存在90年，”比西尼亚诺在CNBC的《早间财经》节目中说。社会保障局将在劳工统计局（BLS）公布以消费者物价指数（CPI）衡量的9月通胀数据后，于周三发布年度生活成本调整（COLA）。
“This is a long journey. It’s 90 years old. It’ll be around for another 90 years,” Bisignano said on CNBC’s “Squawk Box.”The SSA will release its annual cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) on Wednesday, after the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reports data for September inflation, as measured by the consumer price index (CPI).
今年，社会保障局将为大约7500万社会保障受益人提高福利2.8%。老年人联盟预测，2027年该计划的COLA将为3.5%，这将是自2008年以来第四高的调整幅度。
For this year, the SSA increased benefits for the roughly 75 million recipients of Social Security by 2.8 percent. The Senior Citizens League projects the program’s COLA for 2027 will be 3.5 percent, which would be the fourth-highest adjustment since 2008.
根据社会保障局8月的数据，这将使平均每月社会保障福利支票（联邦政府于1937年首次发放）从1941.76美元增加到2009.72美元。
That would boost the average monthly Social Security benefit check, which the federal government first sent in 1937, from $1,941.76 to $2,009.72, based on August data from the SSA.
“人们对它非常、非常感激，并且期待它，”比西尼亚诺周一谈到年度COLA时说。
“People are very, very grateful for it, and they look forward to it,” Bisignano said Monday of the annual COLA.
以CPI衡量的年度通胀率在8月为3.4%。克利夫兰联邦储备银行预测，BLS将在9月测得同比通胀率为3.6%。
Annual inflation, as measured by the CPI, was 3.4 percent in August. The Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland projects the BLS will measure year-over-year inflation as 3.6 percent in September.
今年早些时候，比西尼亚诺和其他特朗普政府官员表示，社会保障的老年和遗属保险（OASI）信托基金将仅能覆盖从2030年代初开始的计划福利的78%。
Earlier this year, Bisignano and other Trump administration officials said Social Security’s Old-Age and Survivors Insurance (OASI) Trust Fund will cover only 78 percent of scheduled benefits starting in the early 2030s.
此后，两党议员已提出多种方案，以应对该计划即将到来的资金缺口，而特朗普总统上周重申了他的观点，即联邦政府应将社会保障信托基金投资于股票市场。
Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have since proposed multiple solutions for the program’s impending funding shortfall, while President Trump reiterated his view last week that the federal government should invest Social Security’s trust fund in the stock market.
“我希望在我的第一年第一个月就让社会保障完全投资于股票市场，”特朗普在椭圆形办公室的一个活动中说，该活动旨在宣传他政府为儿童设立的投资账户。
“I wanted to ride with Social Security being fully invested in the stock market in the first month of my first year,” Trump said in the Oval Office during an event to tout his administration’s investment accounts for children.
“要是我们那样做了，社会保障现在将成为世界上最富有的实体。……我遭到了民主党人和一些共和党人的强烈批评，因为……他们觉得这太冒险，”总统补充道。
“Had we done that, Social Security right now would be the richest entity anywhere in the world. … I was met with tremendous criticism by the Democrats and some Republicans, because … they felt it was risky,” the president added.