Tag: Social Security
The main reasons that 47 percent of households do not pay federal income taxes are provisions in the tax code that 1) provide basic exemptions for subsistence level income and 2) offer tax expenditures that wipe out the tax liabilities. These provisions mainly benefit senior citizens and low-income families with children, who account for t…
The brief’s key findings are: The severity of the Great Recession is projected to have increased the probability of claiming Social Security at age 62 by more than 5 percentage points. This increase was relatively uniform across the income spectrum. The affected individuals claimed six months earlier, resulting in a 4.6 percent reduction in monthly…
