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January 2-27, 2010: Retirement Confidence Survey—Nationwide survey includes seven questions on Social Security.

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“(The Social Security program is facing financial difficulties. Unless some changes are made, it is expected that in time the program will be unable to continue paying the level of benefits now established by law.) In order to resolve this situation, would you strongly favor, somewhat favor, somewhat oppose, or strongly oppose…raising the age at which people can begin receiving full Social Security retirement benefits by one year?”

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18%      Strongly Favor

 

29%      Somewhat Favor

 

17%      Somewhat Oppose

 

34%      Strongly Oppose

 

2%       Don۪t Know

 

*           Refused

Subpopulation/Note: * = less than .5%.

Survey by Employee Benefit Research Institute. Methodology: Interviewing conducted by Mathew Greenwald & Associates, January 2 – January 27, 2010 and based on 1,153 telephone interviews. Sample: national adult. For some questions there were variations in the question wording between the retired and non-retired respondents which are shown. The status was determined by taking into account the respondent’s and spouse’s retirement status. The survey included some cell phone respondents. [USMGA.10RCS.R44B]

 

Formal Citation

Retirement Confidence Survey 2010, Jan, 2010. Retrieved Sep-7-2010 from the iPOLL Databank, The Roper Center for Public Opinion Research, University of Connecticut. http://www.ropercenter.uconn.edu/data_access/ipoll/ipoll.html

“The Social Security program is facing financial difficulties. Unless some changes are made, it is expected that in time the program will be unable to continue paying the level of benefits now established by law. In order to resolve this situation, would you strongly favor, somewhat favor, somewhat oppose, or strongly oppose…raising the payroll tax paid by workers for Social Security from 6.2% to 7.2%?”

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17%      Strongly favor

 

24%      Somewhat favor

 

17%      Somewhat oppose

 

38%      Strongly oppose

 

4%       Don’t know

 

*           Refused

 

Subpopulation/Note: . * = less than .5%.

 

Survey by Employee Benefit Research Institute. Methodology: Conducted by Mathew Greenwald & Associates, January 2 – January 27, 2010 and based on 1,153 telephone interviews. Sample: national adult. For some questions there were variations in the question wording between the retired and non-retired respondents which are shown. The status was determined by taking into account the respondent’s and spouse’s retirement status. The survey included some cell phone respondents. [USMGA.10RCS.R44A]

 

Formal Citation

Retirement Confidence Survey 2010, Jan, 2010. Retrieved Nov-9-2010 from the iPOLL Databank, The Roper Center for Public Opinion Research, University of Connecticut. http://www.ropercenter.uconn.edu/data_access/ipoll/ipoll.html

“(The Social Security program is facing financial difficulties. Unless some changes are made, it is expected that in time the program will be unable to continue paying the level of benefits now established by law.) In order to resolve this situation, would you strongly favor, somewhat favor, somewhat oppose, or strongly oppose…reducing the current rate of benefits by 5% for all new recipients?”

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7%       Strongly favor

 

16%      Somewhat favor

 

25%      Somewhat oppose

 

46%      Strongly oppose

 

5%       Don’t know

 

*           Refused

 

Subpopulation/Note: . * = less than .5%.

 

Survey by Employee Benefit Research Institute. Methodology: Conducted by Mathew Greenwald & Associates, January 2 – January 27, 2010 and based on 1,153 telephone interviews. Sample: national adult. For some questions there were variations in the question wording between the retired and non-retired respondents which are shown. The status was determined by taking into account the respondent’s and spouse’s retirement status. The survey included some cell phone respondents. [USMGA.10RCS.R44C]

 

Formal Citation

Retirement Confidence Survey 2010, Jan, 2010. Retrieved Nov-9-2010 from the iPOLL Databank, The Roper Center for Public Opinion Research, University of Connecticut. http://www.ropercenter.uconn.edu/data_access/ipoll/ipoll.html

“(The Social Security program is facing financial difficulties. Unless some changes are made, it is expected that in time the program will be unable to continue paying the level of benefits now established by law.) In order to resolve this situation, would you strongly favor, somewhat favor, somewhat oppose, or strongly oppose…gradually reducing the current rate of Social Security benefits, so people with higher incomes have their benefits cut back more than those with lower incomes?”

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26%      Strongly favor

 

27%      Somewhat favor

 

17%      Somewhat oppose

 

27%      Strongly oppose

 

3%       Don’t know

 

*           Refused

 

Subpopulation/Note: . * = less than .5%.

 

Survey by Employee Benefit Research Institute. Methodology: Conducted by Mathew Greenwald & Associates, January 2 – January 27, 2010 and based on 1,153 telephone interviews. Sample: national adult. For some questions there were variations in the question wording between the retired and non-retired respondents which are shown. The status was determined by taking into account the respondent’s and spouse’s retirement status. The survey included some cell phone respondents. [USMGA.10RCS.R44D]

 

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