Proposed Provision: Progressive indexing (30th percentile) of PIA formula factors beginning with individuals newly eligible for OASI benefits in 2015, continuing through 2052, and resuming in 2073: Create a new bend point at the 30th percentile of the AIME distribution of newly retired workers. Maintain current-law benefits for earners at the 30th percentile and below. Reduce the 32 and 15 percent formula factors above the 30th percentile such that the initial benefit for a worker with AIME equal to the taxable maximum is reduced by 1.12 percent per year as compared to current law (for the years that progressive indexing applies). 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 | 278 | 
| 2018 | 265 | 266 | 
| 2019 | 253 | 254 | 
| 2020 | 240 | 241 | 
| 2021 | 227 | 228 | 
| 2022 | 212 | 215 | 
| 2023 | 197 | 200 | 
| 2024 | 181 | 185 | 
| 2025 | 164 | 169 | 
| 2026 | 147 | 153 | 
| 2027 | 129 | 136 | 
| 2028 | 110 | 119 | 
| 2029 | 90 | 101 | 
| 2030 | 70 | 82 | 
| 2031 | 49 | 63 | 
| 2032 | 27 | 44 | 
| 2033 | 5 | 24 | 
| 2034 | -18 | 4 | 
| 2035 | -41 | -17 | 
| 2036 | -65 | -38 | 
| 2037 | -89 | -58 | 
| 2038 | -114 | -79 | 
| 2039 | -138 | -100 | 
| 2040 | -163 | -121 | 
| 2041 | -189 | -142 | 
| 2042 | -215 | -163 | 
| 2043 | -240 | -184 | 
| 2044 | -266 | -205 | 
| 2045 | -292 | -226 | 
| 2046 | -319 | -247 | 
| 2047 | -346 | -267 | 
| 2048 | -373 | -288 | 
| 2049 | -400 | -308 | 
| 2050 | -428 | -329 | 
| 2051 | -456 | -349 | 
| 2052 | -484 | -369 | 
| 2053 | -512 | -389 | 
| 2054 | -540 | -409 | 
| 2055 | -569 | -429 | 
| 2056 | -598 | -448 | 
| 2057 | -628 | -468 | 
| 2058 | -657 | -488 | 
| 2059 | -688 | -507 | 
| 2060 | -719 | -527 | 
| 2061 | -750 | -547 | 
| 2062 | -782 | -567 | 
| 2063 | -814 | -586 | 
| 2064 | -847 | -606 | 
| 2065 | -880 | -625 | 
| 2066 | -913 | -644 | 
| 2067 | -946 | -664 | 
| 2068 | -980 | -683 | 
| 2069 | -1014 | -702 | 
| 2070 | -1049 | -721 | 
| 2071 | -1084 | -741 | 
| 2072 | -1120 | -761 | 
| 2073 | -1156 | -781 | 
| 2074 | -1193 | -801 | 
| 2075 | -1230 | -821 | 
| 2076 | -1268 | -842 | 
| 2077 | -1307 | -863 | 
| 2078 | -1346 | -885 | 
| 2079 | -1385 | -906 | 
| 2080 | -1425 | -928 | 
| 2081 | -1465 | -950 | 
| 2082 | -1505 | -973 | 
| 2083 | -1547 | -996 | 
| 2084 | -1588 | -1020 | 
| 2085 | -1631 | -1044 | 
| 2086 | -1673 | -1068 | 
| 2087 | -1717 | -1093 | 
    
  
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