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Abstract This paper examines how differences in Supplemental Security Income (SSI) generosity, driven by differences in state SSI supplements, affect people’s interaction with the program. This paper uses county-level administrative data on SSI recipiency rates, as well as county-level data on SSI application rates, SSI award rates, group specific employment rates, earnings, and migration rates…
The brief’s key findings are: Many older workers are inclined to work longer, but will employers hire and retain them – today and in the future? A series of CRR studies on this topic provide a case for tempered optimism. First, hard data suggest that older workers are at least as productive as younger ones, though they…
The headlines from the 2023 Medicare Trustees Report were that the Hospital Insurance (HI) program faces a long-term deficit and will deplete its trust fund reserves in 2031 and that the rest of the Medicare program will require increasing amounts of general revenues. While true, the outlook for program costs is considerably more favorable than…
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USA TODAY
A new survey explores an odd subgroup of American employees: Workers who aren’t enrolled in a 401(k), but who think they are.
NEW YORK TIMES
For about 15 years, Paula Span has dedicated much of her journalism career to covering one subject: aging, and the challenges that come with it.
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The main reason that U.S. workers end up with inadequate retirement savings is that, at any given time, only about half of workers ages 25-64 are participating in an employer-sponsored pension (see Figure 1)…
Our spring newsletter features new research on inflation’s effect on older households and the increase of young adults opening IRAs. It also announces the 26th Annual RDRC meeting…