The thing is, the payments going out have expanded but the basic underlying system has not. You can keep piling crap into that Camry, but eventually it'll break down.
Some people will always be poor. Having the fed.gov take money for SS etc just increases that number, and prevents them from being self sufficient or even able to care for their friend's and family. But no matter what scheme you try, some people will always die broke and alone. Nothing we can do to stop that. And the best, most efficient way to address it is to get the feds the hell out of it, and let local commnities deal with it as they always have.
What you want and what you can get are different things. It sucks that the feds have stolen and squandered all that money from you and me and everyone else working to make a living. But trying to prop up a fundamentally broken system on the basis of "I gots ta get mine" doesn't work. Math and demographics don't care if you're entitled to get money back, any more than they care about promises politicians made to get elected. The "Greatest Generation" massively expanded the welfare state, then had huge amounts of kids that they raised to selfish greedy entitled little bastards who dramatically reduced their birthrate and even further expanded the welfare state. A very small cadre of young people is going to have an enormous, soul crushing burden stuck on them by a giant cadre who voted themselves unrealistic benefits. It can't go on. Not from a moral point, but it logistically can't continue. Other people's money is running out.
