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Aug 31, 2021 | Blog Paper Press Release | Social Security

Analysis of the 2021 Social Security Trustees' Report

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Aug 31, 2021 | Blog Paper Press Release | Health Care| Social Security

Trustees Show Limited Time to Save Social Security and Medicare

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Jul 23, 2020 | Blog Paper Press Release | Social Security

Senate Proposal Would Address Trust Fund Insolvency Accelerated by COVID Recession

For Immediate Release The next COVID relief bill could incorporate the bipartisan TRUST Act, a bill which would establish bipartisan bicameral...
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Jul 22, 2020 | Blog Paper Press Release | Health Care| Social Security| Other Spending

Major Trust Funds Headed for Insolvency Within 11 Years

A number of important federal programs, such as Social Security and Medicare, are financed through dedicated revenue sources and managed through...
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May 14, 2020 | Blog Paper Press Release | Health Care| Social Security

Robert Reischauer and Charles Blahous: Letter from Former Trustees of Social Security and Medicare

The 2020 annual reports of the Social Security and Medicare trustees underscore the increasingly urgent need for legislative corrections to both...
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Apr 22, 2020 | Blog Paper Press Release | Social Security

Analysis of the 2020 Social Security Trustees' Report

Today, the Social Security Trustees released their annual report , showing that Social Security faces a precarious and worsening financial situation...
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Apr 22, 2020 | Blog Paper Press Release | Social Security

Pre-COVID, Social Security and Medicare Faced Insolvency

The Social Security and Medicare Trustees have released their reports on the financial state of their programs. Even though the Trustees do not...
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Apr 22, 2020 | Blog Paper Press Release | Social Security

Trustees Detail Pre-COVID-19 Medicare, Social Security Insolvency Timeline

the Social Security trust funds in 15 years. After accounting for the sharp economic downturn caused by the pandemic, the trust funds are likely to...
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Jan 7, 2020 | Blog Paper Press Release | Social Security

Support for TRUST Act Grows

The Time to Rescue United States Trusts Act, or the TRUST Act, was introduced last fall on a bipartisan basis in both chambers of Congress to...
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Dec 13, 2019 | Blog Paper Press Release | Social Security

Maya MacGuineas: Utah Statesmen Seek to Fix Our Most Pressing Problems

Maya MacGuineas is president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget and head of the Campaign to Fix the Debt. She recently wrote an...
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Nov 7, 2019 | Blog Paper Press Release | Social Security

Bernie Sanders's Social Security Expansion Act

Presidential candidate Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) has proposed the Social Security Expansion Act , which would increase Social Security benefits,...
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