CRS In Focus: Social Security: Selected Findings of the 2021 Annual Report, October 5, 2021: “According to the recent report of the Board of Trustees of the Social Security Trust Funds, the program’s finances are in a similar, all be it marginally worse, position in 2021t o what they were in 2020. Under intermediate assumptions, the projected combined Trust Fund asset depletion date is 2034 (versus 2035 in last year’s report), after which the percentage of benefits payable would be 78% (versus 79% in 2020)…”