Tag: Social Security
The brief’s key findings are: One option for helping address Social Security’s long-term financial health is to shift a portion of its trust fund reserves into equities. Of course, equities would expose the program to greater financial risk. However, in terms of financial risk, both retrospective and prospective analyses suggest that equities would improve Socia…
The magic number is 35. That’s how many years of earnings the U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA) uses to calculate every worker’s pension benefit. But 35 years can be a tall order for the many boomer women who took time off or cut back on their hours to raise their children. Nearly half of 62-year-old…
