Seventy-year-old baby boomer Martha Shedden spent more than three decades building a successful career as a civil engineer. But 15 years ago, in 2011, she found a new set of numbers to obsess over: the fiercely complicated rules of the U.S. Social Security system. Today she serves as the president and cofounder of the National Association of Registered Social Security Analysts (NARSSA), the largest Social Security advisory services firm in the U.S., and she’s grappling with a problem: President Donald Trump’s handling of the nation’s finances.
The One Big Beautiful Bill Act “did not help Social Security,” Shedden explained, agreeing with projections showing insolvency is drawing closer and closer as tax cuts keep bringing a reckoning nearer to the present day.
