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Senate Proposal Would Address Trust Fund Insolvency Accelerated by COVID Recession
Read moreFor Immediate Release The next COVID relief bill could incorporate the bipartisan TRUST Act, a bill which would establish bipartisan bicameral...
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Major Trust Funds Headed for Insolvency Within 11 Years
Read moreA number of important federal programs, such as Social Security and Medicare, are financed through dedicated revenue sources and managed through...
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Robert Reischauer and Charles Blahous: Letter from Former Trustees of Social Security and Medicare
Read moreRobert Reischauer is a former public Trustee of the Social Security and Medicare Trust Funds, president emeritus of the Urban Institute, and a member...
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Analysis of the 2020 Social Security Trustees' Report
Read moreToday, the Social Security Trustees released their annual report, showing that Social Security faces a precarious and worsening financial situation –...
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Pre-COVID, Social Security and Medicare Faced Insolvency
Read moreThe Social Security and Medicare Trustees have released their reports on the financial state of their programs. Even though the Trustees do not...
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Trustees Detail Pre-COVID-19 Medicare, Social Security Insolvency Timeline
Read moreFor Immediate Release The Social Security and Medicare Trustees released their annual reports today showing that, before accounting for the COVID-19...
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Support for TRUST Act Grows
Read moreThe Time to Rescue United States Trusts Act, or the TRUST Act, was introduced last fall on a bipartisan basis in both chambers of Congress to...
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Maya MacGuineas: Utah Statesmen Seek to Fix Our Most Pressing Problems
Read moreMaya MacGuineas is president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget and head of the Campaign to Fix the Debt. She recently wrote an opinion...
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Bernie Sanders's Social Security Expansion Act
Read morePresidential candidate Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) has proposed the Social Security Expansion Act, which would increase Social Security benefits...
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Bipartisan Group Introduces TRUST Act
Read moreEarlier this week, Senators Mitt Romney (R-UT), Joe Manchin (D-WV), Todd Young (R-IN), Doug Jones (D-AL), and Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ), alongside...
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Why Are CBO and SSA so Far Apart on SS2100?
Read moreBoth the Social Security Administration's (SSA) chief actuary, and the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) recently released updated estimates of the...
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2019 Technical Panel Shows Social Security Could Be in Worse Shape Than We Thought
Read moreThe Social Security Advisory Board's (SSAB) 2019 Technical Panel released its final report last week, projecting that under its suggested changes to...