Social Security
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The ABLE Act: A Model for PAYGO
The House passed the ABLE Act yesterday, a bill that helps those who have been disabled since youth accumulate savings. The bill, with an estimated...
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Finding a Social Security Solution We Can All Agree On
In October, the National Academy for Social Insurance published a study on Americans' preferred solution to making Social Security solvent. CRFB...
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SSDI: Challenges beyond its Trust Fund
Henry Aaron – Chair of the Social Security Advisory Board and a Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution – recently weighed in on the Social...
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Do Americans Really Favor a Revenue-Only Approach to Social Security Reform?
The National Academy of Social Insurance (NASI) released a survey last week ( see video of CRFB President Maya MacGuineas at the release event)...
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Social Security is A Little Bit Harder to Secure
Social Security's finances are far from secure, and every year that Congress waits before addressing the problem makes it harder to fix. This week...
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SSDI Hearings Running Behind
Although the Veterans Affairs (VA) and the Patent Office are infamous among federal agencies for the long wait times and lines, their backlogs pale in...
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SSDI Solutions Initiative Issues Call for Papers
With the Disability Insurance trust fund running out of money in two years, time is running out to discuss a smart solution to the program's imbalance...
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Ideas to Reduce Fraud in the Disability System
As we have been reporting, many reforms to the Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) program could improve its effectiveness, fairness, and...
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Reps. McCrery and Pomeroy Stress Need for Disability Insurance Reforms
In a commentary published today in Roll Call, former Congressmen Jim McCrery (R-LA) and Earl Pomeroy (D-ND) argue Congress should take a closer look...
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Reps. McCrery and Pomeroy Launch SSDI Solutions Initiative
Former Congressmen Jim McCrery (R-LA) and Earl Pomeroy (D-ND) today launched the McCrery-Pomeroy SSDI Solutions Initiative, a bipartisan effort to...
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General Revenue & the Social Security Trust Funds
Social Security is often portrayed in one of two ways, either as its own self-contained program (the “trust fund perspective”) or as part of the...
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Event Recap: "Can Simpson-Bowles Save Social Security?"
On August 15, PublicSquare.net hosted a debate on Social Security featuring CRFB's very own Ed Lorenzen. The event, titled "Can Simpson-Bowles Save...