CRFB's latest interactive tool " The Reformer" is a handy game that allows users to design their own Social Security plan. Users can select from a...

The new Social Security Trustees Report leaves us another year closer to the trust fund's insolvency and the takeaway remains the same - we do not...

As we've said before, while the new budget projections from the CBO are an encouraging sign, it is easy to be overly optimistic about what the...

Along with their report on the financial status of the Social Security trust fund, the Social Security and Medicare Trustees on Friday released a...

Grilling Time – It’s that time of year when the grills get fired up. There’s been grilling on Capitol Hill as well, with government officials being...

Last week, the Senate Finance Committee released a seventh report in a series of papers examining the federal tax code and options for comprehensive...

Today, the Social Security and Medicare Trustees released their annual reports with projections of the finances of both programs. The bottom lines of...

At 11 AM Eastern time, the Social Security and Medicare trustees will release their respective reports on the finances of the two programs over the...

Earlier today, CRFB took a look at two of the biggest "fiscal speed bumps" remaining for the year, the exhaustion of extraordinary measures to advert...

On May 19, the debt ceiling was reinstated as the Treasury Department began to use extraordinary measures to prevent running up against the debt limit...