Tag: Social Security replacement rates
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Abstract This paper seeks to determine the impact of the changing lives of women – increased labor force participation/earnings and reduced marriage rates – on Social Security replacement rates. First, our estimates, based on the Health and Retirement Study and Modeling Income in the Near Term, show that Social Security replacement rates have dropped sharply…
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IB_12-9 (508) The brief’s key findings are: Social Security’s 75-year deficit is significantly higher than last year’s projection: 2.67 percent of payroll versus 2.22 percent of payroll. This increase reflects the slow recovery from the recession and rising disability rolls, among other factors. The bottom line remains the same: Social Security faces a real, but…