Tag: social security benefits for low earners
This proposal would undermine support for the program and delay a real solution. My clever friend, and occasional co-author, Andrew Biggs is up to mischief again. He and his lawyer co-author Kristin Shapiro argue that we don’t really need to worry about exhausting the Social Security trust fund because the worst effects could be prevented…
Including disability benefits provides a more complete picture. The Social Security actuaries just released a study that takes a new look at the progressivity of the Social Security program – that is, the extent to which it pays relatively more generous benefits to low earners than to high earners. The usual story focuses on “money’s…