>I remember seeing a statistic, on the list I believe,
>that said that Soc. Security was projected to be
>solvent until the late 2040s - early 2050s. What is
>this stat, what is the source, URL, etc.? Is it from
>the Congressional Budget Office itself?
All the SS stats come from the annual reports of the system's trustees, available at <http://www.ssa.gov/OACT/TR/>. The latest projected date of reserve exhaustion is 2042. See the summary of the 2004 report at <http://www.ssa.gov/OACT/TRSUM/trsummary.html>.
Doug