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This is one measure of how badly the purchasing power of Social Security benefits has been hurt — no thanks to Federal Reserve inflation and to FDR’s Social Security Ponzi scheme:
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/social-security-benefits-lost-third-125300806.html
Then there’s the 1960 US Supreme Court case (Nestor vs Flemming) that gave Congress the authority to revise, raise, or whack Social Security benefits at their discretion. Any private investment organization violating their fiduciary obligations to you that way would (or at least should) be handed a jail sentence.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flemming_v._Nestor
–Dee