Social Security

The American Association of Retired Persons (AARP) hosted an event entitled "Work, Retirement Age, and Fiscal Sustainability in an Aging World." Two...

We have said before that the Disability Insurance (DI) portion of Social Security is too often overlooked, even though it has a more immediate funding...

The AARP has just released a helpful new paper considering the pros and cons of different options to reform Social Security. Our fiscal outlook in the...

UPDATED: The table now also includes average scheduled benefits in 2050. A scuffle between Social Security advocacy groups and Fiscal Commission co...

Brian Faler of Bloomberg has an article about the unwillingness of lawmakers to address Social Security's Disability Insurance program. Although the...

Yesterday, Zeke Emanuel advanced an interesting proposal for Social Security and Medicare in a blog at The New York Times: varying the retirement ages...

Last month, Social Security and Medicare Trustee Chuck Blahous sparked a controversy by saying that the Affordable Care Act would add to the deficit...

Last week’s report from the Social Security Trustees laid out the challenges facing the vital program. The largest federal program began running...

CRFB's Senior Policy Director Marc Goldwein has a message to policymakers in an op-ed in The Hill: don't overlook the disability insurance (DI)...

Today, two of CRFB's co-chairman, former Representatives Charlie Stenholm (D-TX) and Jim Kolbe (R-AZ), penned an op-ed in The Hill, saying that the...