Tag: Social Security benefits
The withholding could be particularly serious for Black retirees. My colleagues, Gal Wettstein and Siyan Liu, just completed a study using the Federal Reserve’s Survey of Consumer Finances to explore how delinquent student loans could lead to the withholding of Social Security benefits, which could disproportionately harm disadvantaged groups. Gal and Siyan also looked at the potential impact of President Biden’s debt…
Improving benefits for the low paid is a noble goal, but all but the very wealthy need the benefits in current law. Why in the world would Republicans put out a plan to dramatically cut Social Security? Even Donald Trump said he wouldn’t mess with the program’s benefits. Yet, the Republican Study Committee’s Blueprint to Sav…
