Tag: Social Security in the Cross Hairs: Replacement Rates One Last Time

Crosshairs over a brickwall

CBO lowers its 2015 replacement rate numbers. The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) produced a report in December that showed Social Security is very expensive – a huge 75-year deficit – and very generous – extraordinarily high benefits relative to pre-retirement earnings (replacement rates).  These two developments together could set the stage for cutting back on…