The nation’s key program for retiree benefits continues to see financing shortfalls. Unless Congress acts, those drops could lead to payment cuts in eight years.

Social Security will not be able to fully pay monthly benefits to tens of millions of retirees and people with disabilities in 2034 if lawmakers don’t act to address the program’s pending shortfall, according to an annual report released Wednesday by Social Security’s trustees.

That’s when the trust funds that underpin Social Security and Medicare are due to run low, which will mean that benefits get cut by a statutory amount. While Social Security gets most of the attention now,