Tag: trust fund depletion
The brief’s key findings are: The 2021 Trustees Report anticipates that the short-term effects of COVID will dissipate quickly, so the trust fund’s depletion date moved only from 2035 to 2034. For the long-run, the Trustees changed three ultimate assumptions – a higher fertility rate, slower mortality gains, and a lower unemployment rate – a…
Abstract This study explores how workers respond to reports about Social Security’s finances, using an online experiment in which participants are shown identical articles with different headlines. The headline for the control group reports that Social Security has a “long-term financing shortfall,” but does not directly reference the trust fund. The headlines for the thr…
