Tag: Social Security benefits
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…
Not all new ideas are good ideas. Recently two proposals have emerged that would essentially allow individuals to tap Social Security today in exchange for lower benefits in the future. The first was Congressman Tom Garrett’s (R-VA) Student Security Act of 2017, which would allow young people to pay off a portion of their student…
