The pages in this section offer a look, in varying levels of detail, at the periodic correlation of the unemployment rate with the Net Increase in the Social Security Trust Fund's assets -- i.e., the measure which keeps the system solvent.

This correlation can be used to devise a plan of "unemployment insurance" for the Trust Fund, under which it receives "unemployment compensation" to counter the shortfall caused by each percentage point of unemployment over a standard level (e.g., 4.5% -- a level at which the SS Trustees predict the system would remain solvent indefinitely).

This is a more structurally and politically relevant approach to solving the Social Security "problem" than the punitive measures -- against the vast majority of participants in the system -- that seem to have overtaken all public discussion on the topic.