Social Security

As we have discussed numerous times, the Social Security program is on an unsustainable path, and its combined trust fund will be depleted within the...

The release of the Social Security Trustees Report just two weeks after CBO released its long-term outlook gives us a good opportunity to compare how...

The Social Security Trustees Report showed a largely similar outlook compared to the report last year, though it was slightly worse. Trust fund...

The recent CBO Long-Term Budget Outlook confirmed that our long-term debt problems remain far from solved, with debt projected to exceed the size of...

On Tuesday, the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget hosted an event titled " Decoding the Social Security Trustees Report" to discuss the...

In late May, Representatives Tom Cole (R-OK) and John Delaney (D-MD) introduced the Social Security Commission Act of 2014, reflecting a bipartisan...

The Social Security and Medicare Trustees reports provide a detailed projection of each program's finances over the next 75 years. In response, we...

Today, the Social Security and Medicare Trustees released reports on the financial state of the country's largest entitlement programs. The reports...

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...

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...

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...