Tag: Pensions at a Glance

Social Security card on top of paystub showing federal tax deductions

It might be nice to reduce the large share of benefits going to high earners who retire later and live long lives. To read about our federal finances, one would think we had been overtaken by forces beyond our control: extremely expensive healthcare programs, ever-growing interest payments on our debt, and runaway Social Security benefits…

USA social security card with coins

OECD confirms U.S. Social Security benefits low and validates methodology of U.S. Social Security Actuaries. Two recent developments that I have found both annoying and dangerous are the deletion of replacement rate information from the annual Social Security Trustees Report and the coordinated campaign in the press arguing that the elderly have plenty of money…