Spreading social security to things other than retirement is an expansion.
Rachel Greszler 20, Senior Research Fellow, Grover M. Hermann Center, “Social Security Policy for the Next Administration and the 117th Congress,” The Heritage Foundation, 11/19/20, https://www.heritage.org/social-security/report/social-security-policy-the-next-administration-and-the-117th-congress
Not expand Social Security’s purpose. Social Security’s popularity, combined with its hidden costs, make the program ripe for further expansion, far beyond Social Security’s original purpose. Not only do many policymakers want to increase Social Security benefits in retirement, some want to treat Social Security as a personal piggy bank instead of a social insurance program. Already, Members of Congress have introduced bills that would allow workers to access their future benefits for non-retirement-related purchases, including paying off student loan debt and financing paid parental leave.18 Workers do need more flexibility and freedom to spend and save their money on what is best for them—but that should come from reducing Social Security’s costs instead of increasing its scope and allowing politicians in Washington to dictate when people can use their money and what they can spend it on, based on evolving “socially desirable” purposes of the time.