Social Security

Gone and Back – The Senate has left for its August recess, the House will return this week (for a day). Congress will be back in session after Labor...

When we think about Social Security reform, we tend to look at options in terms of their impact solvency -- measured over a 75 years period. In their...

Today, the Social Security and Medicare Trustees released their annual reports on the financial status of the two programs. The Trustees now project...

Since Social Security was signed into law by Franklin D. Roosevelt on August 14, 1935, it has become the largest government social insurance program...

A few weeks ago, Fiscal Commission co-chair Erskine Bowles suggested that in designing a plan, "revenue as a percentage of GDP [should not] be much...

If You Can’t Stand the Heat… – Washington has been experiencing a heat wave, but it can’t all be blamed on the friction between the two parties...

At a time when Social Security is increasingly getting lawmakers' attention for the possibility of reform, raising the retirement age is starting to...

CRFB’s earlier post on CBO’s Social Security Options publication covered some of the broad reform options, especially those effecting Social Security...

Social Security has been described as the "third rail" of American politics: if you touch it, you get burned. Now, it seems that touching Social...

Last Friday, CBO released a report on 30 options for changing the Social Security system, analyzing both the savings and distributional effects of the...