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New York Times Article Does More to Perpetuate Myths than to Dispel Them
Read moreWith Social Security’s 90 th birthday approaching, The New York Times (NYT) published an article this week alleging “ 6 myths about it that won’t go...
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Retirees Face an $18,100 Benefit Cut in 7 Years
Read moreThe Social Security and Medicare trust funds are only a little more than seven years from insolvency, based on projections from the programs’ own...
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Marc Goldwein and Anthony Colavito: OBBBA Didn't End Taxes on Social Security Benefits; Here's What We Could Do Now
Read moreMarc Goldwein is Senior Vice President and Senior Policy Director of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget and Anthony Colavito is a Social...
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Event Recap: Checking in on the 2025 Social Security & Medicare Trust Funds
Read moreOn June 24, the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget hosted a virtual event following the release of the 2025 Social Security and Medicare...
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Maya MacGuineas: Congress, stop ignoring Social Security
Read moreMaya MacGuineas is president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. She recently wrote an opinion piece for Dallas Morning News, an...
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OBBBA Would Accelerate Social Security & Medicare Insolvency
Read moreThe Social Security and Medicare Trustees estimated in their 2025 annual reports on the programs that the retirement and hospital trust funds will...
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Analysis of the 2025 Social Security Trustees' Report
Read moreThe Social Security and Medicare Trustees released their annual reports today on the financial status of the programs. The Trustees find that both...
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Social Security and Medicare Trustees Release 2025 Reports
Read moreNote: We have published our analyses of the Social Security and Medicare Trustees' Reports. The Social Security and Medicare Trustees released their...
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Lawmakers Add $380 Billion to the Debt in the Final Hours of 2024
Read moreWith the passage of the Social Security Fairness Act and the American Relief Act, Congress and the President approved $1 trillion in new ten-year debt...
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Senate Will Soon Vote on Speeding Up Social Security Insolvency
Read moreSenate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) announced yesterday that the Senate would vote on the Social Security Fairness Act, which passed the House...
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Typical Couple Will Lose $25,000 of Social Security from WEP/GPO Repeal
Read moreLawmakers are considering the repeal of Social Security’s Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP) and Government Pension Offset (GPO). Not only would...
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Repealing WEP/GPO Would Raise Deficits, Weaken Social Security
Read moreThe House of Representatives will soon vote on the Social Security Fairness Act, legislation which would repeal Social Security’s Windfall Elimination...