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- Social Security: Raising the Retirement Age Background and Issues
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- Social Security: Proposed Changes to the Earnings Test
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- Social Security Reform
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- Social Security Reform
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- Social Security Reform
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- Social Security: Taxation of Benefits
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- Social Security: Taxation of Benefits
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- Social Security Reform: Economic Issues
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- Social Security: Where Do Surplus Taxes Go and How Are They Used?
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- Social Security: Raising or Eliminating the Taxable Earnings Base
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- Social Security Benefit Enhancements for Women Act of 2002 (H.R. 4069)
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- Social Security Benefit Enhancements for Women Act of 2002 (H.R. 4069)
- This report discusses the passing of the Social Security Benefit Enhancements for Women Act of 2002 and how it benefits certain divorced spouses and disabled and elderly widowers. The report analyzes the specific benefits of the act and how much the act would cost and the effects on the Social Security trust funds.
- Social Security Program Protection Act of 2002 (H.R. 4070)
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- Social Security Program Protection Act of 2002 (H.R. 4070)
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- Social Security Program Protection Act of 2002 (H.R. 4070)
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- Social Security: Coverage of Household Workers - A Fact Sheet
- On October 22, 1994, President Clinton signed legislation (P.L. 103-387) that changes social security coverage of household workers. The new law changed the threshold to a yearly amount and raised it (to $1,000 in 1994, indexed thereafter to average wage growth-it became $1,100 in 1998, 1,200 in 2000, and 1,300 in 2001). It remains at $1,300 in 2002. In addition, the new law exempted most domestic workers under age 18, and provided that Social Security and unemployment taxes will be reported on the employer's annual federal tax return.
- Social Security: Raising the Retirement Age Background and Issues
- The Social Security "full retirement age" will gradually rise from 65 to 67 beginning with people who attain age 62 in 2000 (i.e., those born in 1938). Early retirement benefits will still be available beginning at age 62, but at lower levels. To help solve Social Security's long-range financing problems, it has been proposed that these ages be raised further.
- The Financial Outlook for Social Security and Medicare
- This report provides a financial outlook for social security and medicare programs.
- Social Security and Medicare Taxes and Premiums: Fact Sheet
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- The Financial Outlook for Social Security and Medicare
- This report provides an overview of the financial outlook for Social Security and Medicare programs.
- Social Security's Treatment Under the Federal Budget: A Summary
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- Social Security: The Cost-of-Living Adjustment in January 2003
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- Social Security Reform: How Much of a Role Could Personal Retirement Accounts Play?
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- Social Security's Treatment Under the Federal Budget: A Summary
- The treatment of Social Security in the federal budget is often confusing. In legislation enacted in 1983, 1985, and 1990, Social Security was excluded from official budget calculations and largely exempted it from congressional procedures for controlling budget revenues and expenditures. However, because Social Security represents more than a fifth of federal revenues and expenditures, it often is included in summaries of the government's financial flows, or what is referred to as the "unified" budget.
- Retirement Savings and Household Wealth in 2000: Analysis of Census Bureau Data
- This report examines recent trends in retirement saving and the policy implications. The aging of the American population and the impending retirement of the "baby boom" will place significant strains over the next several decades on both Social Security and on retirees' own financial resources. With continued increases in average life expectancies, retirees in the 21st century will have to stretch their savings and other assets over longer periods of retirement than were experienced by their parents and grandparents.
- Social Security: The Cost-of-Living Adjustment in January 2003
- This report discusses the Cost-of-living Adjustments to Social Security in 2003. To compensate for the effects of inflation, Social Security recipients receive a cos-of-living adjustment (COLA) in January of each year. The Consumer Price Index for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers (CPI-W), updates monthly by the Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), is the measure used to compute the change.