Social Security

In his final week on Capitol Hill, retiring Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK) introduced a bill with a wide-ranging set of measures to, in his words, protect...

The House passed the ABLE Act yesterday, a bill that helps those who have been disabled since youth accumulate savings. The bill, with an estimated...

In October, the National Academy for Social Insurance published a study on Americans' preferred solution to making Social Security solvent. CRFB...

Henry Aaron – Chair of the Social Security Advisory Board and a Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution – recently weighed in on the Social...

The National Academy of Social Insurance (NASI) released a survey last week ( see video of CRFB President Maya MacGuineas at the release event)...

Social Security's finances are far from secure, and every year that Congress waits before addressing the problem makes it harder to fix. This week...

Although the Veterans Affairs (VA) and the Patent Office are infamous among federal agencies for the long wait times and lines, their backlogs pale in...

With the Disability Insurance trust fund running out of money in two years, time is running out to discuss a smart solution to the program's imbalance...

As we have been reporting, many reforms to the Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) program could improve its effectiveness, fairness, and...

In a commentary published today in Roll Call, former Congressmen Jim McCrery (R-LA) and Earl Pomeroy (D-ND) argue Congress should take a closer look...

Former Congressmen Jim McCrery (R-LA) and Earl Pomeroy (D-ND) today launched the McCrery-Pomeroy SSDI Solutions Initiative, a bipartisan effort to...

Social Security is often portrayed in one of two ways, either as its own self-contained program (the “trust fund perspective”) or as part of the...