Social Security
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NYT's Tritch Misses the Mark on SSDI Funding Options
The New York Times Editorial Board's Teresa Tritch posted a piece last week on short-term solutions to avert next year's depletion of the Social...
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Maya MacGuineas: Protecting the Legacy of Social Security for Future Generations
Maya MacGuineas, president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, wrote a guest post for the Social Security Administration's blog. It is...
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Bipartisan Policy Center Publishes SSDI Recommendations
The Bipartisan Policy Center (BPC) recently convened a Disability Insurance Working Group and released their recommendations to address the upcoming...
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Three Scenarios for Projecting Debt
Our recent analysis of the Congressional Budget Office's (CBO) August baseline focused on CBO's official current law baseline projections, which show...
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Event Recap: McCrery-Pomeroy SSDI Solutions Conference
On Tuesday, August 4, 2015, the McCrery-Pomeroy SSDI Solutions Initiative hosted its SSDI Solutions Conference, presenting the 12 papers commissioned...
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Judd Gregg: Ensuring Social Security’s Future
Social Security faces very serious financial challenges, and its own trustees estimate that its deficits will lead to trust fund insolvency by 2034.
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Adam Rosenberg: Four Myths About Social Security
Adam Rosenberg, a policy analyst with the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, wrote a guest post that appeared on the RealClearPolicy blog. It...
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Are Social Security Benefits Modest?
With Social Security’s recent 80th birthday behind us, a debate has arisen over whether or not Social Security benefits are "modest" for a typical...
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Gene Steuerle: Reforming Disability Policy: Tough Choices Required
Dr. Eugene (Gene) Steuerle is the Richard B. Fisher chair and Institute Fellow at the Urban Institute and a member of the Committee for a Responsible...
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SSDI Solutions Initiative Releases Issue Brief on the Financial State of the Program
The McCrery-Pomeroy SSDI Solutions Initiative newly released an issue brief on the financial state of the SSDI program, the third primer in its series...
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8 Myths on Social Security's 80th Birthday
Today marks Social Security's 80th birthday, celebrating the anniversary of the establishment of the old-age portion of the program in the Social...
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Debunking 8 Social Security Myths on Its 80th Birthday
August 14 marks the 80th birthday of the Social Security program, which was established in the Social Security Act of 1935. Over the past 80 years...