Social Security
Statement: Greenstein on Trustees’ Social Security Report
The report shows Social Security doesn’t face an immediate crisis but does require changes, and the sooner they’re made, the better. Read more
Podcast: Listen to Greenstein discuss the Medicare and Social Security Trustees' Reports
Basics
Social Security provides monthly benefits to more than 50 million retired workers and workers with disabilities, their dependents, and their survivors. Though Social Security is best known as a retirement program, one-fifth of the program's beneficiaries are non-elderly adults (under age 62) or children who receive survivors' benefits or disability insurance benefits.
Policy Basics:
- Top Ten Facts on Social Security
Featured Experts
The Center examines the effects of Social Security on poverty (including poverty among children) and on particular demographic groups. We also analyze Social Security reform proposals to determine their likely impact on the program’s long-term solvency and its effectiveness in reducing poverty and hardship.
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Audio Clip: Jim Horney Discusses Cost-of-Living Increase for Social Security on National Public Radio
October 22, 2009
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Case For a Social Security Cost-of-Living Adjustment in 2010 Is Weak
Updated October 15, 2009
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What the 2009 Trustees’ Report Shows About Social Security
May 18, 2009
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Podcast: The 2009 Social Security and Medicare Trustees' Reports
May 12, 2009
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Statement: Robert Greenstein on Trustees’ Social Security Report
May 12, 2009
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