Social Security

The President's FY 2016 Budget last week proposed dealing with the upcoming Fiscal Speed Bump of the exhaustion of the Social Security Disability...

In addition to updating budget projections, CBO's baseline also looks at the state of various government trust funds over the next ten years. Two of...

Although the 114th Congress is just getting settled, it will have to move quickly to address a series of deadlines with serious policy and fiscal...

The recently adopted House rules for the 114th Congress are getting attention in the budget world mostly for their requirement that the Congressional...

This year was an eventful one for the federal budget. To explain the year's events, CRFB wrote 427 blogs, 17 papers, and created more than a hundred...

It is clear that Social Security faces financial challenges. This year, its own Trustees estimated the combined trust funds would run out of reserves...

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...

According to the latest CBO Budget Options report, adopting the chained CPI – an inflation index that most economists believe is a more accurate...

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

Over the long term, the country's debt is projected to grow to unsustainable levels. This outlook has not changed for the last two decades, according...