Tag: OACT
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Introduction Over the long term, stocks have earned a higher rate of return than Treasury bonds. Therefore, many recent proposals to reform Social Security include a stock investment component. In evaluating these proposals, the Social Security Administration’s Office of the Actuary (OACT) has generally used a 7.0 percent real return for stocks (based on a…