Topic: Social Security and Briefs

Should Social Security Rely Solely on the Payroll Tax?
Alicia H. Munnell

Strange But True: Claim and Suspend Social Security
Alicia H. Munnell, Alex Golub-Sass, and Nadia Karamcheva

Strange But True: Claim Social Security Now, Claim More Later
Alicia H. Munnell, Alex Golub-Sass, and Nadia Karamcheva

Strange But True: Free Loan From Social Security
Alicia H. Munnell, Alex Golub-Sass, and Nadia Karamcheva

The Impact of Inflation on Social Security Benefits
Alicia H. Munnell and Dan Muldoon

Are People Claiming Social Security Benefits Later?
Dan Muldoon and Richard W. Kopcke

Social Security’s Financial Outlook: The 2008 Update in Perspective
Alicia H. Munnell

When Should Married Men Claim Social Security Benefits?
Steven A. Sass, Wei Sun, and Anthony Webb

An "Elastic" Earliest Eligibility Age for Social Security
Natalia Zhivan, Steven A. Sass, Margarita Sapozhnikov, and Kelly Haverstick

Working Wives Reduce Social Security Replacement Rates
Alicia H. Munnell, Geoffrey Sanzenbacher, and Mauricio Soto

Promoting Work: Implications of Raising Social Security's Early Retirement Age
John A. Turner

Social Security's Financial Outlook: The 2007 Report in Perspective
Alicia H. Munnell

How to Improve Long-Term Immigration Projections
Neil Howe and Richard Jackson

Social Security's Financial Outlook: The 2006 Update in Perspective
Alicia H. Munnell

Sorting Out Social Security Replacement Rates
Alicia H. Munnell and Mauricio Soto

How Much Pre-Retirement Income Does Social Security Replace?
Alicia H. Munnell and Mauricio Soto

Why Do Women Claim Social Security Benefits So Early?
Alicia H. Munnell and Mauricio Soto

Mandatory Social Security Coverage of State and Local Workers: A Perennial Hot Button
Alicia H. Munnell

Are the Social Security Trust Funds Meaningful?
Alicia H. Munnell

National Saving and Social Security Reform
Andrew Eschtruth and Robert Triest

What is Progressive Price Indexing?
Alicia H. Munnell and Mauricio Soto

Social Security's Financial Outlook: The 2005 Update and a Look Back
Alicia H. Munnell

Yikes! How to Think About Risk?
Alicia H. Munnell, Steven A. Sass, and Mauricio Soto

What Does Price Indexing Mean for Social Security Benefits?
Alicia H. Munnell and Mauricio Soto

A Bird's Eye View of the Social Security Debate
Alicia H. Munnell

How Do Individual Accounts Work in the Swedish Pension System?
Annika Sundén

How Can the Actuarial Reduction for Social Security Early Retirement Be Right?
Natalia A. Jivan

Should We Raise Social Security's Earliest Eligibility Age?
Alicia H. Munnell, Kevin B. Meme, Natalia A. Jivan, and Kevin E. Cahill

Can Faster Growth Save Social Security?
Rudolph G. Penner

Reforming the U.S. Retirement Income System: The Growing Role of Work
Steven A. Sass

The Declining Role of Social Security
Alicia H. Munnell

Should a Lump-Sum Payment Replace Social Security's Delayed Retirement Credit?
Peter R. Orszag

How Would Financial Risk Affect Retirement Income Under Individual Accounts?
Gary Burtless

Social Security and the Federal Budget
Andrew D. Eschtruth

How Should We Insure Longevity Risk in Pensions and Social Security?
Jeffrey R. Brown

What Stock Market Returns to Expect for the Future?
Peter A. Diamond

What to Do about the Social Security Earnings Test?
Jonathan Gruber and Peter Orszag