Tag: Social Security replacement rates
The brief’s key findings are: For married households, the amount of pre-retirement income replaced by Social Security depends on the labor force activity of both spouses. At the high end, couples with a non-working spouse get the replacement rate from the worker’s benefit and from a spousal benefit. At the low end, couples with two…
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…
