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Report: Analysis of the 2014 Social Security Trustees' Report
See our followup blog series for additional information on the Trustees Report not included in the analysis below. The Social Security and Medicare...
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Social Security Trustees Show Program Headed Toward Insolvency
Today, the Social Security and Medicare Trustees released reports on the financial state of the country's largest entitlement programs. The reports...
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Trust Fund Insolvency Dates Are Approaching Fast
Although most of our analysis of CBO's Long-Term Budget Outlook has focused on debt projections, CBO also makes projections about the solvency of...
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CBO: Social Security Trust Fund To Be Exhausted 1 Year Earlier, in 2030
One of the biggest stories of last year's long-term outlook was the deterioration in Social Security's financial picture. Largely due to CBO's...
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How Much of a Payroll Tax Increase Would It Take to Fix Social Security?
Around this time of year, the Social Security Trustees usually issue their report on the status of the program over the next 75 years. In advance of...
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Sahadi Warns of Disability Insurance Insolvency
We've written many times on the need to reform Social Security well before it becomes insolvent in the 2030s. But as Jeanne Sahadi explains in a...
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Senators Begich and Murray Propose Social Security Benefit Enhancements
Last week, Senator Mark Begich (D-AK) and Senate Budget Committee Chair Patty Murray (D-WA) introduced legislation that would make targeted increases...
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Delaney and Cole Propose Social Security Commission
Reps. John Delaney (D-MD) and Tom Cole (R-OK) introduced the Social Security Commission Act of 2014 today.
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Rubio Proposes Retirement Program Reforms
As the Senate works this week to increase the debt, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) outlined a series of reforms to Social Security, Medicare, and retirement...
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Social Security's Worsening Financial Picture Since 2011
We have already shown how both federal health care spending and revenue projections have been revised downward by $900 billion and $4.2 trillion...
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CBO's Social Security Projections
In CBO's 2014 Budget and Economic Outlook released this week, they addressed the future of the federal government's largest program, Social Security...
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Explaining the "Double-Dipping" Provision
As the Senate looks for offsets for an unemployment insurance extension, there is one provision that has gotten some attention: ending "double-dipping...