Tag: Social Security Administration

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Introduction Today, the retirement income system — comprising Social Security and employer-sponsored pension plans — is contracting.  To compensate, people need to work longer to ensure an adequate income over many years throughout retirement.  A few additional years in the labor force can make a big difference.  Working longer directly increases current income; it avoids…

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Introduction A potential component of the administration’s Social Security proposal is to shift from “wage indexing” of benefits to “price indexing.” This change sounds modest, but, in fact, would change the nature of the Social Security program. Price indexing would preserve the purchasing power of Social Security benefits, but these benefits would represent an ever-declining…