Social Security
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CRFB Releases Updated Social Security Reformer
Read moreThe Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget (CRFB) has updated its interactive online Social Security solvency tool, the Social Security Reformer...
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Maya MacGuineas: Our elected officials can’t keep ignoring the looming Social Security problem
Read moreMaya MacGuineas is president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. She recently wrote an opinion piece for Deseret News, an excerpt of...
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Social Security General Revenue Funding Would be a Costly Mistake
Read moreThe Social Security retirement program is only seven years from insolvency, at which point the law calls for a 24% across-the-board benefit cut – an...
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2.8% COLA Highlights Benefits of a COLA Cap
Read moreThe Social Security Administration announced on October 24 that beneficiaries will receive a 2.8% Cost-of-Living Adjustment (COLA) at the start of...
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WATCH - Erskine Bowles: We Can Save Social Security and Medicare
Read moreErskine Bowles, former Co-Chair of the 2010 National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform and current Committee for a Responsible Federal...
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Event Recap: Saving the Trust Funds
Read moreOn October 22, the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget hosted Saving the Trust Funds: New Solutions for Social Security and Medicare. The event...
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Saving the Trust Funds: New Solutions for Social Security and Medicare
Read moreOn October 22, 2025, the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget hosted Savings the Trust Funds: New Solutions for Social Security and Medicare, an...
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A Social Security COLA Cap
Read moreSocial Security is rapidly approaching insolvency. The retirement trust fund is seven years from exhaustion, and the theoretically combined trust...
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An Employer Compensation Tax for Social Security and Medicare
Read moreThe Social Security retirement and Medicare Hospital Insurance (HI) trust funds are approaching insolvency, with both trust funds expected to be...
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It's Time for Trust Fund Solutions
Read moreSome of the nation’s largest and most important programs are financed through government trust funds that collect dedicated revenues and then...
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Chris Towner: The Social Security and Medicare Funding Problems Are Real
Read moreChris Towner is the policy director for the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. He recently wrote an op-ed for the Washington Monthly, an...
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As Social Security Turns 90, It's Racing Towards Insolvency
Read moreSocial Security turns 90 today – but its retirement program is on course to be insolvent by age 97 – according to new estimates from the program’s...