Tag: CBO flap
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CBO “flap” shows SSA numbers weren’t so bad after all. So as to not lose my few remaining readers, I would like to wind up the discussion of Social Security replacement rates. And I think that I can do that on a positive note. The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) “flap,” where the agency admitted that…
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CBO lowers its 2015 replacement rate numbers. The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) produced a report in December that showed Social Security is very expensive – a huge 75-year deficit – and very generous – extraordinarily high benefits relative to pre-retirement earnings (replacement rates). These two developments together could set the stage for cutting back on…