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Record Nr.

UNINA9910779511403321

Titolo

Social security [[electronic resource] ] : background, issues and proposals / / editor, Jacob T. Alvarez

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Nova Science Publishers, c2011

ISBN

1-61761-633-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (174 p.)

Collana

Social issues, justice and status

Altri autori (Persone)

ÁlvarezJacob T

Disciplina

368.4/300973

Soggetti

Social security - United States

Insurance - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

""SOCIAL SECURITY: BACKGROUND, ISSUES AND PROPOSALS""; ""SOCIAL SECURITY: BACKGROUND, ISSUES AND PROPOSALS ""; ""CONTENTS ""; ""PREFACE ""; ""SOCIAL SECURITY: THE TRUST FUND ""; ""SUMMARY  ""; ""INTRODUCTION  ""; ""HOW THE SOCIAL SECURITY PROGRAM IS FINANCED  ""; ""THE SOCIAL SECURITY TRUST FUND AS A DESIGNATED ACCOUNT ""; ""Social Security Trust Fund Revenues ""; ""Social Security Trust Fund Costs ""; ""Social Security Trust Fund Operations""; ""Investment of the Social Security Trust Fund  ""; ""The Social Security Trust Fund and the Federal Budget  ""; ""On-Budget versus Off-Budget  ""

""THE SOCIAL SECURITY TRUST FUND AS ACCUMULATED HOLDINGS  """"The Social Security Trust Fund and the Level of Federal Debt  ""; ""The Social Security Trust Fund and Federal Default ""; ""The Social Security Trust Fund and Benefit Payments  ""; ""End Notes ""; ""SOCIAL SECURITY: TRUST FUND INVESTMENT PRACTICES ""; ""SUMMARY ""; ""BACKGROUND ""; ""ISSUES ""; ""End Notes""; ""SOCIAL SECURITY, SAVING, AND  THE ECONOMY ""; ""SUMMARY ""; ""INTRODUCTION ""; ""SAVING AND THE ECONOMY ""; ""EXPLAINING HOUSEHOLD SAVING ""; ""Life Cycle Saving ""; ""Precautionary Saving ""

""Recent Trends in Household Saving""""SOCIAL SECURITY AND HOUSEHOLD SAVING ""; ""SAVING AND SOCIAL SECURITY REFORM ""; ""Fully Funded vs. Pay As You Go ""; ""Defined Benefit vs. Defined Contribution ""; ""Investing the Trust Fund in Private Securities ""; ""End



Notes ""; ""SOCIAL SECURITY RETIREMENT EARNINGS TEST: HOW EARNINGS AFFECT BENEFITS ""; ""SUMMARY ""; ""INTRODUCTION ""; ""HISTORICAL BACKGROUND ""; ""CURRENT LAW ""; ""Social Security Worker and Auxiliary Benefits ""; ""The RET Applies to Beneficiaries below the Social Security Full Retirement Age ""

""The RET Reduces Social Security Benefits """"The RET Exempt Amounts""; ""Grace Year ""; ""The RET May Affect Social Security Benefits Received by Spouses, Survivors and Other Dependents""; ""Dually Entitled Beneficiaries ""; ""BENEFITS WITHHELD UNDER THE RET ARE RESTORED STARTING AT FRA ""; ""WORKER BENEFICIARIES WITH EARNINGS IN 2006 ""; ""APPLICATION OF THE RETIREMENT EARNINGS TEST ""; ""POLICY ISSUES ""; ""The RET and Work Incentives ""; ""The RET and Incentives to Claim Social Security Benefits ""; ""The RET, Retirement Security and Early Benefit Claims ""; ""Other Policy Issues ""

""FINANCIAL EFFECT OF REPEALING THE RET ON THE SOCIAL SECURITY TRUST FUND""""APPENDIX A. COMPUTATION OF THE SOCIAL SECURITY RETIRED-WORKER BENEFIT ""; ""Adjustment to Benefits Claimed before or after FRA ""; ""APPENDIX B. SOCIAL SECURITY AUXILIARY BENEFITS (BENEFITS FOR THE WORKERâ€?S FAMILY MEMBERS) ""; ""Maximum Family Benefit Amount ""; ""APPENDIX C. ANNUAL EXEMPT AMOUNTS UNDER THE SOCIAL SECURITY RETIREMENT EARNINGS TEST, CALENDAR YEARS 2000-2010""; ""End Notes ""; ""SOCIAL SECURITY: RAISING OR ELIMINATING THE TAXABLE  EARNINGS BASE""; ""SUMMARY""; ""BACKGROUND ""

""Origin and History of the Taxable Earnings Base ""