Tag: Social Security benefits
The brief’s key findings are: Many policy experts support targeted changes to Social Security benefits for vulnerable groups, such as caregivers, widows, the very old, and low earners Several of these changes have been endorsed by bipartisan groups, which indicates the potential for widespread support. Such changes, by themselves, would raise Social Security’s long-term deficit. But if…
Supplemental Transition Accounts for Retirement (STARTs) would raise retirement incomes. Gary Koenig of AARP, Jason Fichtner of the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, and Bill Gale of the Brookings Institution have proposed Supplemental Transition Accounts for Retirement (STARTs) to raise the age at which Social Security benefits are first paid, thereby reducing the tota…
