Center on Budget: Social Security

Center on Budget: Social Security Social Security News feed http://www.cbpp.org/topic/?fa=topic&id=38 en-us Copyright 2008 Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. All rights reserved. Mon, 14 May 2012 20:00:05 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Off the Charts Blog Post: Comparing the Social Security Shortfall and the Cost of the Bush Tax Cuts http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CBPP-SocialSecurity/~3/UBrnwCVebd4/ http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=3184 Mon, 14 May 2012 15:25:34 -0400 http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=3184 What the 2012 Trustees' Report Shows About Social Security On April 23, the Social Security Board of Trustees issued its annual report on the program's financial status.[1] The report shows some deterioration in the program's finances since the 2011 report. While that revision — which stems chiefly from lingering economic weakness — is not alarming, it reminds policymakers that they ought to act soon to put the program on a sound footing for the long run. Although the date when the program can no longer pay full benefits … http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CBPP-SocialSecurity/~3/noUkjtX6Oro/ http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=3774 Thu, 10 May 2012 13:30:55 -0400 http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=3774 Off the Charts Blog Post: A “Small Improvement” Worth Making http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CBPP-SocialSecurity/~3/UBrnwCVebd4/ http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=3184 Wed, 09 May 2012 16:00:56 -0400 http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=3184 Off the Charts Blog Post: Video: Jared Bernstein and Chye-Ching Huang Discuss Tax Rates and the Economy http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CBPP-SocialSecurity/~3/UBrnwCVebd4/ http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=3184 Tue, 08 May 2012 16:40:57 -0400 http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=3184 Off the Charts Blog Post: Efforts to Boost Outcomes for Children with Disabilities Should Build Upon SSI's Foundation http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CBPP-SocialSecurity/~3/UBrnwCVebd4/ http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=3184 Tue, 08 May 2012 10:10:42 -0400 http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=3184 Off the Charts Blog Post: Fixing (the) Social Security (Graph) http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CBPP-SocialSecurity/~3/UBrnwCVebd4/ http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=3184 Mon, 07 May 2012 16:25:29 -0400 http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=3184 Off the Charts Blog Post: Don't Forget Demographics' Role in Rising Disability Costs http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CBPP-SocialSecurity/~3/UBrnwCVebd4/ http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=3184 Wed, 02 May 2012 13:58:48 -0400 http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=3184 Off the Charts Blog Post: No, Social Security and Medicare Aren't Going “Bankrupt” http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CBPP-SocialSecurity/~3/UBrnwCVebd4/ http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=3184 Wed, 25 Apr 2012 13:10:40 -0400 http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=3184 Off the Charts Blog Post: Defunding State Health Insurance Exchanges Would Slow Health Reform http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CBPP-SocialSecurity/~3/UBrnwCVebd4/ http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=3184 Tue, 24 Apr 2012 16:12:19 -0400 http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=3184 Off the Charts Blog Post: Social Security: It's Not 1983 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CBPP-SocialSecurity/~3/UBrnwCVebd4/ http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=3184 Tue, 24 Apr 2012 14:49:54 -0400 http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=3184 Media Briefing: Understanding the Annual Reports of the Social Security and Medicare Trustees The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities held a conference call briefing on Monday, April 23 at 4:00 pm (ET) to discuss the 2012 reports of the Social Security and Medicare Trustees. Paul Van de Water, Senior Fellow at the Center and one of Washington’s leading experts on both Social Security and Medicare, and Robert Greenstein, President of CBPP discussed what the reports say about the long-term financial status of Social Security and Medicare. http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CBPP-SocialSecurity/~3/JO_tHiYB0Kk/ http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=3755 Tue, 24 Apr 2012 10:54:11 -0400 http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=3755 Statement of Robert Greenstein on the 2012 Social Security Trustees' Report The trustees’ report, with its projection that, in the absence of policy changes, Social Security will be able to pay full benefits only until 2033 — and about 75 percent of scheduled benefits after that — indicates Congress should act soon to address the program’s long-term financing shortfall. The projected 2033 date is three years earlier than the date in last year’s trustees’ report, although it is consistent with various earlier trustees’ … http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CBPP-SocialSecurity/~3/AE08qxch-_Q/ http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=3753 Mon, 23 Apr 2012 17:43:15 -0400 http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=3753 Off the Charts Blog Post: Higher Rents for Poorest Housing Recipients a Bad Idea http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CBPP-SocialSecurity/~3/UBrnwCVebd4/ http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=3184 Wed, 22 Feb 2012 16:54:30 -0500 http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=3184 Chained CPI Can Be Part of a Balanced Deficit-Reduction Package, Under Certain Conditions A proposal included in several deficit-reduction packages — those from fiscal commission co-chairs Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson, the Domenici-Rivlin panel, and the Senate "Gang of Six" — would shift from the regular or official Consumer Price Index (CPI) to the "superlative" or "chained" CPI when indexing various federal benefit and tax-code provisions. This proposal would gradually trim the growth of benefit programs and boost future tax revenues.… http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CBPP-SocialSecurity/~3/gwYU5YGkj4g/ http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=3690 Wed, 22 Feb 2012 14:30:39 -0500 http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=3690 Off the Charts Blog Post: The False Claim That State Income Taxes Impede Growth http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CBPP-SocialSecurity/~3/UBrnwCVebd4/ http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=3184 Fri, 10 Feb 2012 15:35:02 -0500 http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=3184 Contrary to "Entitlement Society" Rhetoric, Over Nine-Tenths of Entitlement Benefits Go to Elderly, Disabled, or Working Households Some conservative critics of federal social programs, including leading presidential candidates, are sounding an alarm that the United States is rapidly becoming an “entitlement society” in which social programs are undermining the work ethic and creating a large class of Americans who prefer to depend on government benefits rather than work. A new CBPP analysis of budget and Census data, however, shows that more than 90 percent of the benefit dollars that entitlement and … http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CBPP-SocialSecurity/~3/Ncpi1yp1lgs/ http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=3677 Fri, 10 Feb 2012 11:54:07 -0500 http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=3677 Off the Charts Blog Post: Debunking the “Entitlement Society” Myth http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CBPP-SocialSecurity/~3/UBrnwCVebd4/ http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=3184 Fri, 10 Feb 2012 11:55:26 -0500 http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=3184 Contrary To "Entitlement Society" Rhetoric, Over Nine-Tenths of Entitlement Benefits Go to Elderly, Disabled, or Working Households Some conservative critics of federal social programs, including leading presidential candidates, are sounding an alarm that the United States is rapidly becoming an “entitlement society” in which social programs are undermining the work ethic and creating a large class of Americans who prefer to depend on government benefits rather than work. A new CBPP analysis of budget and Census data, however, shows that more than 90 percent of the benefit dollars that entitlement and … http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CBPP-SocialSecurity/~3/Ncpi1yp1lgs/ http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=3677 Fri, 10 Feb 2012 09:57:34 -0500 http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=3677 Off the Charts Blog Post: Long and Uncertain Recovery for State Budgets http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CBPP-SocialSecurity/~3/UBrnwCVebd4/ http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=3184 Mon, 09 Jan 2012 14:39:11 -0500 http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=3184 Off the Charts Blog Post: In Case You Missed It http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CBPP-SocialSecurity/~3/UBrnwCVebd4/ http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=3184 Fri, 06 Jan 2012 17:47:18 -0500 http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=3184 Program Cuts Under a Balanced Budget Amendment: How Severe Might They Be? The constitutional balanced budget amendment that the House is expected to consider this week could force Congress to cut all programs by an average of 17.3 percent by 2018. If revenues are not raised (the House-passed budget resolution assumes no increase above current-policy levels) and all programs are cut by the same percentage, Social Security would be cut $184 billion in 2018 alone and almost $1.2 trillion through 2021; Medicare would be cut $117 billion in 2018 and about $750 … http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CBPP-SocialSecurity/~3/XJabOpGK2F8/ http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=3619 Tue, 15 Nov 2011 13:33:04 -0500 http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=3619 Balanced Budget Amendment Highly Ill-Advised for Addressing Long-Term Fiscal Problems The balanced budget amendment to the U.S. Constitution that the House will consider this week would be a highly ill-advised way to address the nation's long-term fiscal problems. It would threaten significant economic harm while raising a host of problems for the operation of Social Security and other vital federal functions. The economic problems are the most serious. By requiring a balanced budget every year, no matter the state of the economy, the amendment would raise … http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CBPP-SocialSecurity/~3/GFhWI5AnlBY/ http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=3616 Mon, 14 Nov 2011 16:57:46 -0500 http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=3616 The Composition of Past Deficit-Reduction Packages – And Lessons for the Next One Revenue increases were a part of every major deficit-reduction package in the 1980s and 1990s until the Balanced Budget Act of 1997. In several cases — notably in 1982 and 1984 (where they offset a portion of President Reagan's large tax cuts of 1981) — they dominated the package. In several other cases — 1987, 1990, and 1993 — they contributed one-third to more than one-half of the total savings (including the debt-service savings), and a … http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CBPP-SocialSecurity/~3/aKYCsz0XcF0/ http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=3617 Mon, 14 Nov 2011 17:45:22 -0500 http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=3617 Off the Charts Blog Post: Without the Safety Net, More Than a Quarter of Americans Would Have Been Poor Last Year http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CBPP-SocialSecurity/~3/UBrnwCVebd4/ http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=3184 Wed, 09 Nov 2011 16:42:02 -0500 http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=3184 Off the Charts Blog Post: The High Cost of a Four-Day School Week http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CBPP-SocialSecurity/~3/UBrnwCVebd4/ http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=3184 Tue, 01 Nov 2011 16:21:41 -0400 http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=3184