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Federal Programs and Benefits Assisting the Elderly

Description: This report is categorized into six category: (I) Employment and Volunteer Programs, (II) Health Care Facilities and Health Care Programs,(III) Housing Programs, (IV) Income Maintenance Programs, (V) Social Service Programs and Related Programs and (VI) Training and Research Programs.
Date: September 18, 1975
Creator: Tager, Evelyn
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Crimes against the Elderly

Description: This report discusses the problem faced by the elderly- criminal victimization of the elderly. It also lists out some reasons why the crimes against the elderly seem to be happening.
Date: October 21, 1975
Creator: Puls, Barbara
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The Social Security Retirement Test

Description: This report gives the details of the present retirement test which includes the Annual earnings limitations, Monthly benefits, etc. It lists out both the arguments in support and against for this retirement test and concludes by stating the proposals for change.
Date: January 8, 1976
Creator: Crowley, Francis J.
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The Social Security Deficit - 1976 Estimates

Description: This report tells us about the social security trust funds which are being helped for old-age, survivors, disability insurance and etc.
Date: June 21, 1976
Creator: Crowley, Frank
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Social Security Financing: A Guide to Sources of Information

Description: This research guide identifies the information sources for the issue of social security financing as well as for a number of specific topics related to this subject.
Date: August 7, 1981
Creator: Cerny, Marsha K.
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Social Security Financing

Description: The Old-Age and Survivors Insurance (OASI) program, the largest of the social security programs, will not have sufficient resources to meet its benefit payments on time in July 1983. Even if the program were permitted to continue to borrow from the other social security programs, the financial the shortfall would re-emerge in 1984.
Date: January 25, 1983
Creator: Koitz, David Stuart; Kollmann, Geoffrey & Miller, Nancy
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Social Security Student Benefits

Description: As part of his program for economic recovery, President Reagan included a proposal to discontinue social security benefits for 18 to 22-year-old students attending college or vocational school. Critics of the student benefit believe that other federally funded educational assistance programs which tailor the amount of aid provided to actual educational costs and family income should be relied upon to help finance the college educations of students who are children of retired, disabled, and dece… more
Date: October 18, 1983
Creator: Koitz, David Stuart
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Social Security: Alien Beneficiaries

Description: Mounting concern about the payment of social security Benefits to aliens living abroad resulted in the enactment of legislation this year adding new restrictions on the payment of benefits to certain aliens, P.L. 98-21.
Date: November 1, 1983
Creator: Koitz, David Stuart
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Social Security Benefits for Prisoners

Description: On Mar. 24, 1983, the Congress adopted, as part of the Social Security Amendments of 1983 (P.L. 98-21), a measure to preclude virtually all incarcerated felons from receiving social security benefits of any kind, including retirement and survivor benefits. This action expanded previous legislation. In October 1980, legislation had been enacted (P.L. 96-473) that denied only social security disability benefits and student benefits to prisoners convicted of a felony.
Date: November 1, 1983
Creator: Koitz, David Stuart
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Cash and Non-Cash Benefits for Persons with Limited Income: Eligibility Rules, Recipient and Expenditure Data, FY1981-83

Description: This report summarizes basic eligibility rules, as of May 1984, for more than 70 cash and non-cash programs that benefit primarily persons of limited income. It also gives funding formulas, benefit levels, and, for fiscal years 1981-1983, recipient numbers and expenditure data for each program.
Date: June 18, 1984
Creator: Burke, Vee
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Social Security Reform: How Much of a Role Could Private Retirement Accounts Play?

Description: Numerous proposals have been made calling for creation of individual retirement accounts to replace or supplement future Social Security benefits. Some believe that having workers accumulate assets based on their own contributions would be a better way to secure future retirement incomes. Others see the creation of private accounts as a way to offset cuts in Social Security that may be needed to restore the system to a sound financial footing. Much of the debate is fueled by the perception that… more
Date: March 4, 1998
Creator: Koitz, David Stuart
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Ideas for Privatizing Social Security

Description: This report summarizes the proposals that have emerged and the issues surrounding them.
Date: April 6, 1998
Creator: Koitz, David
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Ideas for Privatizing Social Security

Description: There has been considerable interest recently in privatizing Social Security. The ideas are wide-ranging: from adoption of a totally-revamped system of personal retirement accounts, similar to an approach taken by Chile in 1983, to permitting optional earmarking of a portion of existing payroll taxes for personal savings. This report summarizes the proposals that have emerged and the issues surrounding them.
Date: April 6, 1998
Creator: Koitz, David Stuart
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Social Security Taxes: Where Do Surplus Taxes Go and How Are They Used?

Description: The costs of the Social Security program, both its benefits and administrative expenses, are financed by a tax on wages and self-employment income. Commonly referred to as FICA and SECA taxes (because they are levied under the Federal Insurance and Self-Employment Contributions Acts), these taxes flow each day into thousands of depository accounts maintained by the government with financial institutions across the country. Along with many other forms of revenues, these Social Security taxes bec… more
Date: April 29, 1998
Creator: Koitz, David Stuart
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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