Proposed Provision: Progressive price indexing (50th percentile) of PIA formula factors for individuals newly eligible for OASI benefits in 2017 through 2056: Create a new bend point at the 50th percentile of the AIME distribution of newly retired workers. Maintain current-law benefit credit for earners at the 50th percentile and below. Reduce the 32 and 15 formula factors above the 50th percentile such that the initial benefit for a worker with AIME equal to the taxable maximum grows by inflation rather than the growth in the SSA average wage index.  Disabled workers are: (a) not affected prior to normal retirement age; and (b) subject to a proportional reduction in benefits, based on the worker's years of disability, upon conversion to retired-worker beneficiary status.
  
    OASDI Trust Fund Ratio
    (assets as a percentage of annual expenditures)
    
    
    
    
    
      
        | Year | Present Law | Provision | 
    
    
      | 2012 | 340 | 340 | 
| 2013 | 329 | 329 | 
| 2014 | 315 | 315 | 
| 2015 | 302 | 302 | 
| 2016 | 290 | 290 | 
| 2017 | 277 | 277 | 
| 2018 | 265 | 266 | 
| 2019 | 253 | 254 | 
| 2020 | 240 | 241 | 
| 2021 | 227 | 228 | 
| 2022 | 212 | 214 | 
| 2023 | 197 | 199 | 
| 2024 | 181 | 184 | 
| 2025 | 164 | 168 | 
| 2026 | 147 | 152 | 
| 2027 | 129 | 135 | 
| 2028 | 110 | 117 | 
| 2029 | 90 | 99 | 
| 2030 | 70 | 80 | 
| 2031 | 49 | 61 | 
| 2032 | 27 | 41 | 
| 2033 | 5 | 21 | 
| 2034 | -18 | 0 | 
| 2035 | -41 | -20 | 
| 2036 | -65 | -42 | 
| 2037 | -89 | -63 | 
| 2038 | -114 | -84 | 
| 2039 | -138 | -106 | 
| 2040 | -163 | -128 | 
| 2041 | -189 | -149 | 
| 2042 | -215 | -171 | 
| 2043 | -240 | -193 | 
| 2044 | -266 | -215 | 
| 2045 | -292 | -236 | 
| 2046 | -319 | -258 | 
| 2047 | -346 | -280 | 
| 2048 | -373 | -302 | 
| 2049 | -400 | -324 | 
| 2050 | -428 | -345 | 
| 2051 | -456 | -367 | 
| 2052 | -484 | -389 | 
| 2053 | -512 | -410 | 
| 2054 | -540 | -432 | 
| 2055 | -569 | -454 | 
| 2056 | -598 | -476 | 
| 2057 | -628 | -498 | 
| 2058 | -657 | -520 | 
| 2059 | -688 | -542 | 
| 2060 | -719 | -565 | 
| 2061 | -750 | -588 | 
| 2062 | -782 | -611 | 
| 2063 | -814 | -633 | 
| 2064 | -847 | -656 | 
| 2065 | -880 | -679 | 
| 2066 | -913 | -702 | 
| 2067 | -946 | -725 | 
| 2068 | -980 | -748 | 
| 2069 | -1014 | -772 | 
| 2070 | -1049 | -795 | 
| 2071 | -1084 | -818 | 
| 2072 | -1120 | -842 | 
| 2073 | -1156 | -867 | 
| 2074 | -1193 | -891 | 
| 2075 | -1230 | -916 | 
| 2076 | -1268 | -941 | 
| 2077 | -1307 | -966 | 
| 2078 | -1346 | -992 | 
| 2079 | -1385 | -1018 | 
| 2080 | -1425 | -1043 | 
| 2081 | -1465 | -1070 | 
| 2082 | -1505 | -1096 | 
| 2083 | -1547 | -1123 | 
| 2084 | -1588 | -1150 | 
| 2085 | -1631 | -1178 | 
| 2086 | -1673 | -1206 | 
| 2087 | -1717 | -1234 | 
    
  
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