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In a reasonable world we could have a discussion about raising the eligibility age for SSI payouts, especially given that in 1935, when the act was passed, the eligibility age (for full payouts) was 65 and life expectancy was somewhere around 62. Those numbers are now 67 for the majority of us (for full payouts) and 79 for average life expectancy.
Of course, the above does rather beg the question about what our expectations are regarding the age of retirement, given that in 1950 the average age of people actually retiring was almost 69, but by 1989 this had dropped to almost 64.
But we don't live in that kind of world where we can have that kind of reasonable discussion.
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