Social Security

The Social Security and Medicare Trustees reports provide a detailed projection of each program's finances over the next 75 years. In response, we...

Today, the Social Security and Medicare Trustees released reports on the financial state of the country's largest entitlement programs. The reports...

Although most of our analysis of CBO's Long-Term Budget Outlook has focused on debt projections, CBO also makes projections about the solvency of...

One of the biggest stories of last year's long-term outlook was the deterioration in Social Security's financial picture. Largely due to CBO's...

Around this time of year, the Social Security Trustees usually issue their report on the status of the program over the next 75 years. In advance of...

We've written many times on the need to reform Social Security well before it becomes insolvent in the 2030s. But as Jeanne Sahadi explains in a...

Last week, Senator Mark Begich (D-AK) and Senate Budget Committee Chair Patty Murray (D-WA) introduced legislation that would make targeted increases...

Reps. John Delaney (D-MD) and Tom Cole (R-OK) introduced the Social Security Commission Act of 2014 today.

As the Senate works this week to increase the debt, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) outlined a series of reforms to Social Security, Medicare, and retirement...

We have already shown how both federal health care spending and revenue projections have been revised downward by $900 billion and $4.2 trillion...

In CBO's 2014 Budget and Economic Outlook released this week, they addressed the future of the federal government's largest program, Social Security...