Social Security

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...

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...