Social Security Reform Options
Author | : United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee on Aging |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 144 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee on Aging |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 144 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : |
Distributed to some depository libraries in microfiche.
Author | : Jason Z. Yin |
Publisher | : World Scientific |
Total Pages | : 512 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9789810241049 |
This is the first-ever book to provide a comprehensive analysis of Chinese social security reforms with a variety of views. It addresses issues such as what kind of social security system China should establish, how this system should be managed and financed, and how the transition from the old system to the new system can best be accomplished. The authors of the papers in this book include internationally renowned Chinese and Western social security experts (such as Martin Feldstein and Henry Aaron), Chinese policy makers, and scholars who have worked on Chinese social security for years.
Author | : United States. National Commission on Social Security Reform |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 298 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : Disability insurance |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Barbara D. Bovbjerg (ed) |
Publisher | : DIANE Publishing |
Total Pages | : 110 |
Release | : 2005-09 |
Genre | : Social security |
ISBN | : 9781422300510 |
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.
Author | : Jeffrey R. Brown |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 473 |
Release | : 2009-12-15 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0226076504 |
Social Security Policy in a Changing Environment analyzes the changing economic and demographic environment in which social insurance programs that benefit elderly households will operate. It also explores how these ongoing trends will affect future beneficiaries, under both the current social security program and potential reform options. In this volume, an esteemed group of economists probes the challenge posed to Social Security by an aging population. The researchers examine trends in private sector retirement saving and health care costs, as well as the uncertain nature of future demographic, economic, and social trends—including marriage and divorce rates and female participation in the labor force. Recognizing the ambiguity of the environment in which the Social Security system must operate and evolve, this landmark book explores factors that policymakers must consider in designing policies that are resilient enough to survive in an economically and demographically uncertain society.
Author | : Martin Feldstein |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 481 |
Release | : 2007-11-01 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0226241890 |
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.
Author | : Craig Copeland |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
The Social Security program has received a great deal of attention recently as President Bush has been pushing for the inclusion of individual accounts within the program. The president has not specified a detailed proposal, but one of the reform models (Model 2) that was outlined by his Commission to Strengthen Social Security in December 2001 has elements that are closest to what the administration is advocating. As documented in the Social Security Trustees' annual reports, the program faces undeniable long-term financial challenges, especially as the post-World War II baby boom generation begins to retire in large numbers. Consequently, sooner or later some changes will need to be made to the Social Security system to place it on solid long-term fiscal footing. This paper compares the Model 2 individual account option with three other Social Security options that provide benchmark levels of benefits for comparison. These options are: (1) funding current-law benefits (current-law benefit with taxes raised); (2) a gradual reduction in benefits; and (3) "cliff" benefit cuts, at the date of the depletion of the OASDI Trust Fund.
Author | : Olivia S. Mitchell |
Publisher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | : 446 |
Release | : 1999-01-29 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780812234794 |
The United States social security system is the nation's largest social insurance program. As such, it has a far-reaching impact throughout the economy, influencing not only old-age economic security but also many behaviors, including corporate employment policy, retirement patterns, and personal saving. In the past, the system's universal coverage and generous benefits ensured popular support to a degree enjoyed by no other form of "big government" social spending. Yet over two-thirds of all Americans today believe that the social security system will face bankruptcy by the time they retire. The question of social security reform—how to reform the system or whether the system needs reform at all—is the subject of heated debate at all levels of government, in the media, and among workers, pensioners, and employers. Prospects for Social Security Reform informs the debate by exploring why the system is at a crossroads today and what to do about it. Contributors detail the size and nature of the problem, explain views of key "stakeholders" regarding reform options, and report new evidence on how reform might affect the economy. Research findings and public opinion polls are analyzed, as are lessons from other countries experimenting with new ways to deliver old-age benefit promises. No other volume includes as diverse and expert a set of perspectives on reform and privatization as those gathered here from economists, actuaries, employers, investment managers, and representatives of organized labor. Among its chapters is the path-breaking study "Social Security Money's Worth," the 1999 winner of the TIAA-CREF's Paul A. Samuelson Award for Outstanding Scholarly Writing on Lifelong Financial Security.
Author | : Barbara D. Bovbjerg |
Publisher | : DIANE Publishing |
Total Pages | : 58 |
Release | : 2001-08 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780756712716 |
In 1999, disabled beneficiaries & their families accounted for about 17% of all Social Security (SS) beneficiaries. This report assesses the potential effects of Social Security reform options on the solvency of the Social Security Disability Insur. (DI) program trust fund & the benefits disabled beneficiaries receive. It analyzes both the potential effects of comprehensive SS reform proposals on the solvency of the DI trust fund & on the benefits that disabled beneficiaries receive & the likely contribution that individual proposal provisions would make to these effects. Examines the implications of SS reform for the Supplemental Security-income individuals with disabilities.
Author | : Dallas L. Salisbury |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 164 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780866430876 |