Voters back amendment to separate Constitution from budget, mandate payments

Voters overwhelmingly favor dramatic reforms to ensure that Social Security continues to pay out its benefits, a recent poll has revealed.

Nearly three in four voters, 74%, endorsed a constitutional amendment to separate Social Security from the federal budget and to obligate that it pay its benefits, a recent Napolitan News Survey found.

A smaller, albeit still significant majority of 57%, moreover, believed Social Security funds should be invested in Certificates of Deposit rather than the stock market. Another 66% supported putting Social Security into a special trust fund that remained inaccessible to the government.

Conducted May 5-6, the survey questioned 1,000 registered voters and has a margin of sampling error of +/- 3.1%.