Social Security Not Meant to Be One's Only Retirement Income, But Often Becomes That

Social Security was never meant to do that, says Beth Mulvaney, a clinical assistant professor in the School of Social Work at Pitt. “Social Security was only meant to be one leg of a three-legged stool of retirement,” Mulvaney said. Those other legs were pensions, supplanted for most by 401(k)s and 403(b)s, and savings. Read more in the Tribune Review.