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The Social Security Reform Debate Rages On!
The search for a pathway to resolution of Social Security’s looming financial insolvency continued this week. Evidence of this can be seen in AEI’s “ This Week in Policy “ post, which summarizes several key positions in the debate over…
Clarifying Medicare Coverage and Long-Term Care Costs
In his “Little-Known Facts” column on AEI.org, Senior Fellow Andrew J. Biggs typically digs into broad concepts related to retirement and its complex financial planning issues. Yesterday, he ventured into a widely held misconception about the cost-sharing relationships between Medicare…
An Interesting Perspective on the Projection of Social Security’s Trust Fund Depletion
Projections are just that…an estimate of what research has concluded will happen over a prescribed horizon. In the case of Social Security’s steadily eroding financial picture, the 2026 Trustees Report projects the Old-Age and Survivors Insurance (OASI) trust fund will…
Definition Time: “Wage Indexing” and How it Works
Yesterday’s headline post on this site discussed a paper by AEI senior fellow Andy Biggs identifying “wage indexing” as a key culprit in Social Security’s long-term funding problem. As our post pointed out, wage indexing is the process of using…
Focusing on the Insolvency Problem: A Look at One of the Fundamental Drivers
In this first part of a two-part study, American Enterprise Institute (AEI) senior fellow Andrew G. Biggs challenges one of the basic narratives associated with Social Security’s steadily eroding financial picture. Specifically, his article addresses the issue of wage indexing…
Floor Vote on WEP-GPO Repeal Imminent: Odds Appear in Favor of Passage
It looks like the issue of “fairness” in the Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP) and Government Pension Offset (GPO) segments of the Social Security rulebook will receive a final Senate vote in the closing hours of the current session. Andrew Biggs,…
Still Another Opposing Comment on the WEP-GPO Repeal Effort
Today’s headline article on the march toward a Senate vote on S. 597 (Social Security Fairness Act) presents viewpoints opposite from most of the supporting articles carried on the airwaves over the past several months. That’s to be expected since…