Tag: Social Security in the Cross Hairs: Replacement Rates Still

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SSA study shows that CBO numbers cannot be right. The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has become a major player in the effort to show that Social Security is very expensive – huge 75-year deficit – and very generous – extraordinarily high benefits relative to pre-retirement earnings (replacement rates).  These two developments together set the stag…