Confidence in Social Security has Dwindled

According to a new Rasmussen Reports poll, more than half of Americans are not confident they'll receive Social Security benefits within their lifetime.

There's also a huge generation gap between those who believe they'll receive Social Security benefits in their lifetime and those who believe they won't. Seniors are overwhelmingly sure they'll be able to reap the benefits of Social Security, with nearly 70 percent saying they're very confident or somewhat confident they will receive all the Social Security benefits promised to them in their lifetime.

Voters between 18-39 were less certain -- 73 percent of them said they were not confident they'd receive all the Social Security benefits promised to them in their lifetime.

Voters over 65 years old also had a very favorable opinion of the program -- with 45 percent viewing Social Security favorably -- while only 13 percent of voters between 18-39 said they view the Social Security program favorably.

The survey of 1,000 Likely Voters was conducted June 12-13. The margin of sampling error is +/- 3 percentage points with a 95 percent level of confidence.