The Social Security Trustees Report has traditionally presented options for policy makers to consider in fixing the long-term financial threats to Social Security. As they have in the past, this year the trustees focused largely on either increasing payroll taxes to boost revenue for the program or...
Given the recent release of the Social Security trustees'2016 reporton the status of the national retirement system, now seems like a good time to address a misconception that political candidates and ordinary citizens alike often repeat: Congress raids the Social Security trust fund and spends it ...
2016 presidential campaignThe Social Security Trustees Report of 2015 outlines solvency concerns for Social Security, which are likely to bring Social Security to the policy agenda again soon. The politics of deservingness will have important implications for any Social Security policy proposal, and ...
The Social Security Trustees Report contains high, low, and intermediate projections. Unless otherwise stated, this research cites the intermediate figures, because these “reflect the Trustees’ best estimates of future experience.”[4] Overview * In 1935, Congress passed and Democratic President ...
The federal government's two largest benefit programs face short- and long-term financial problems as they close in on milestone anniversaries. The magnitude of those problems will become clearer when the trustees for Social Security and Medicare issue their annual report cards. ...
Social Security: Debunking the Debunking Posted in Entitlements, Fiscal Policy, Social Security, tagged Entitlements, Fiscal Policy, Social Security on May 13, 2024| 6 Comments » When the Social Security Administration released its annual Trustees’ Report last week, I crunched the numbers to sh...
The trustees that overseeSocial Securitysaid the disability trust fund will run out of money in late 2016, right in the middle of a presidential campaign. That would trigger an automatic 19 percent cut in benefits. The report said the fund faces "an urgent threat" that requires prompt action...
The 2011 Trustees’ report is the first in which Public Trustees have ever participated to have concluded thatan era of permanent annual deficits has been reached. This is important. It’s all you need to know. SS has turned a corner. It is headed south. It will continue to head south ...
The 2017 Social Security Trustees ReportSchobel, Bruce D.
The 2024 Social Security Trustees Report projected that Social Security trust funds will be depleted on a combined basis in 2035. How the Social Security Trust Funds Work The two Social Security trust funds are theOld-Age and Survivors Insurance (OASI) Trust Fundand theDisability Insurance (DI)...