Tag: Social Security replacement rates
Replacement rate numbers deleted from 2014 Social Security Trustees Report should raise serious concerns. Each year the Social Security actuaries project the system’s financial outlook over the next 75 years. This report usually comes out in April but this year was delayed to the end of July. This delay raised the question whether the delay…
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…
