Ruben Kihuen on Social Security

Fight any attempt to privatize or voucherize

In Congress, I will:
• Fight any attempt to privatize, voucherize, reduce benefits or otherwise undermine Social Security or Medicare.
• Scrap the payroll tax cap to ensure the wealthiest pay their fair share for Social Security. The wealthiest Americans stop paying taxes for Social Security on January 2nd, that's just wrong.
• Expand Social Security benefits to give our seniors the dignified retirement they deserve.

Opposes diverting some FICA into personal accounts.

The Project Vote Smart Voter Guide inferred how candidates would respond to the question, 'Social Security: Do you support allowing individuals to divert a portion of their Social Security taxes into personal retirement accounts?' Project Vote Smart notes, "in response to the increasing unwillingness of candidates to answer issue questions, Project Vote Smart has researched Congressional candidates' public records to determine candidates' likely responses on certain key issues. These issue positions, from the year 2016, are provided [for candidates who] refused to provide voters with positions on key issues covered by the 2016 Political Courage Test, despite repeated requests. Historically, candidates have failed to complete our test due to the advice they receive from their parties and advisors and out of fear of negative attack ads."