Tag: Social Security benefits
The brief’s key findings are: Social Security’s spousal and survivor (“family”) benefits were designed in the 1930s for a one-earner married couple. Today, family benefits contribute less to retirement income because most married women work, and many households are headed by single mothers. Single mothers who were never married are not eligible for family benefits,…
The brief’s key findings are: Social Security has been very successful in reducing old-age poverty, but this success could be challenged if benefits are cut to close the program’s funding gap. The effect of benefit cuts on poverty depends on how poverty is defined. The official measure of poverty is a static concept that does…
