Can you retire comfortably on Social Security alone? We asked seniors.

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• I'm lucky because she has that mentality, 'Take care of your parents.' I'll never be out on the streets

  80% confidence

• I feel very fortunate that our careers kept us at the higher end of Social Security earnings

  80% confidence

• People spend dramatically less after they retire. The rat race you get when you're working drops off in retirement

  80% confidence

• We are frugal people. Almost everything in our house is recycled, used, thrifted, but it looks nice and everything works

  80% confidence

• From everything I read prior to retiring, I didn't think it was possible to live on Social Security alone

  80% confidence

• For one thing, I look for everything that's free. If it's not free, it's damn near free

  80% confidence

• I have worked so hard all my life, working two jobs, sometimes three, and it has really been a struggle

  80% confidence

• It was rough when I first started. The check was so low

  80% confidence

• It's been a year and a week, and I'm not struggling at all. When I hear people say, 'I can't live on Social Security,' it's like, Why not?

  80% confidence

• It's not optimal to just get by, but that's the way it is

  80% confidence

• Social Security will face a shortfall by 2035

  80% confidence

• There's nobody really to blame for our current financial change other than me, because I was never going to get old

  80% confidence

• We made $150,000, we spent $150,000

  80% confidence

• You can retire with a lot less than $1 million in the bank: $50,000 to $100,000 in savings should do it

  80% confidence

• We're going to have to make a decision next spring about what we're going to do, or I'm going to continue to pull down our savings, and I don't have any way of replacing that

  80% confidence

• At some point, you realize that I'm 79 years old. There's not a whole lot we need. We have a comfortable life. We have a lot of really good friends

  80% confidence

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