Social Security
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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...
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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...