Social Securitys Goals and Criteria for Assessing Reforms
Social Securitys Goals and Criteria for Assessing Reforms

Author: E. Clay Shaw

Publisher:

Published: 1999-12-01

Total Pages: 84

ISBN-13: 9780756708665

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Witnesses include: David M. Walker, Comptroller General, U.S. General Accounting Office; Stephen C. Goss, Deputy Chief Actuary, Office of the Chief Actuary, U.S. Social Security Administration; Wendell Primus, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities; Dallas L. Salisbury, Employee Benefit Research Institute; and Louis D. Enoff, Enoff Associates, Sykesville, MD. Also, Submissions for the Record: David B. Lowry, Portland, OR, letter; Cynthia Wilson, Retired, Public Employees Association, Inc.; and Richard Weede, Richard Weede Photography, Escondido, CA, letter. Charts and tables.

Social Security Reform
Social Security Reform

Author: Barbara D. Bovbjerg (ed)

Publisher: DIANE Publishing

Published: 2005-09

Total Pages: 110

ISBN-13: 9781422300510

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The sooner our nation acts to address Social Security's long-term financial challenges, the easier it will be to successfully meet them. The choices are not difficult to understand, but they are difficult to make. They affect both how much Americans pay for Social Security & how much they receive from the program. They require changes that not only will affect us but have implications for future generations. This guide provides answers to questions about the most basic aspects of Social Security & reform issues in a concise & easy-to-understand format. It provides straightforward answers to how Social Security works, why it needs reform, what the basic options are, & how to assess their implications.

The Distributional Aspects of Social Security and Social Security Reform
The Distributional Aspects of Social Security and Social Security Reform

Author: Martin Feldstein

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2007-11-01

Total Pages: 481

ISBN-13: 0226241890

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Social security is the largest and perhaps the most popular program run by the federal government. Given the projected increase in both individual life expectancy and sheer number of retirees, however, the current system faces an eventual overload. Alternative proposals have emerged, ranging from reductions in future benefits to a rise in taxrevenue to various forms of investment-based personal retirement accounts. As this volume suggests, the distributional consequences of these proposals are substantially different and may disproportionately affect those groups who depend on social security to avoid poverty in old age. Together, these studies persuasively show that appropriately designed investment-based social security reforms can effectively reduce the long-term burden of an aging society on future taxpayers, increase the expected future income of retirees, and mitigate poverty rates among the elderly.