5 Ways Joe Biden Wants Social Security to Change

Here's where Biden — as well as Trump — stands on the future of the Social Security retirement system.

Karla Bowsher • September 23, 2020

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Social Security: It might be one of the hottest topics of this presidential campaign season.

But when anyone can post anything on social media and even the candidates themselves have hurled falsehoods at each other, it can be seemingly impossible to tell where a candidate stands, especially on a hot-button issue like Social Security.

To give you a better understanding of where the challenger, former Vice President Joe Biden, stands, we dissected his Social Security plans as detailed in his official platform.

We did the same for incumbent President Donald Trump as well, although he has formally said little about his Social Security plans.

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