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I recently attended the joint Leading Age and Global Ageing Network conference in Boston. Leading Age is the trade association of the nonprofit elder...
Social Security was originally intended for retirement. Many older people, however, report receiving both wages and Social Security benefits. That...
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State and local government workers have traditionally had defined benefit (DB) pensions that insulate them from the stock market and ensure that they do not outlive their savings. Funding these plans, however, has become burdensome for many governments, with costs rising dramatically in the immediate wake of the 2008 financial crisis and continuing to grow…
Social Security was designed to replace wages for those no longer working, so claiming Social Security benefits is often used as a simple proxy for retirement. However, trends in employment at older ages cast some doubt on this assumption: many households over 65 report labor earnings as well as Social Security income, indicating that…
What captures the headlines about Medicare is the exhaustion date of the Hospital Insurance (HI) trust fund. But HI is only 38 percent of Medicare expenditures today and is projected to decline further, and the HI shortfall – once the trust fund assets are depleted – is only 11 percent of HI expenditures. Thus, t…
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