Comprehensive and meticulously documented facts about Social Security. Learn about Social Security's taxes, benefits, financial status, reform options, and more. For example: • Taxable Maximum • Causes of Fiscal Problems • Old-Age Benefits • “Looting the Trust Fund” • Personal Ownersh...
The United States Senate is approaching a vote on the so-called “Social Security Fairness Act,” legislation that would eliminate adjustments to Social Security benefits for a select of public sector employees who are not covered by Social Security but instead participate in alternate government pens...
Many studies also show that the survival pressure and economic security faced by cohorts before and after reform and opening-up have also affected their attitudes toward postmaterialist values. Therefore, there is no significant increase in the scores of postmaterialist values among the "post-80s"...
The largest single increase was the $3.3 billion for health insurance for the aged under the Social Security Act (Medicare). Just before the turn of the century, total social welfare expenditures amounted to about 2.4 percent of the gross national product with expenditures for education—almost ...
Currently, the Social Security Board of Trustees projects program cost to rise by 2035 so that taxes will be enough to pay for only 75 percent of scheduled benefits. This increase in cost results from population aging, not because we are living longer, but because birth rates dropped from thr...
The Social Security administration does raise Social Security benefits each year based on an inflation index. For example, in 2023, theSocial Security cost of living adjustmentincreased by a whopping 8.7%! Hence, we can at least count on benefits to increase with inflation. ...
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At age 62, you can begin receivingSocial Security benefits. However, you are only entitled to the full benefits upon reaching your social security full retirement age (FRA). The FRA is currently 66 years old for anyone born in 1955. It will incrementally increase per year to reach 67 in ...
It’s been ten days since the Social Security annual report to Congress has come out. I’ve been waiting for the devotees of SS to write something cheery about the report. For the most part the cheerleaders have been silent. That’s with good reason. The
[13]. Working with observable user-generated content at the scale afforded by social media complicates this process, requiring the development of new theories and methods to estimate the ideological and psychological division between groups of users without having direct access to self-reported ...