http://www.heritage.org/research/ The Heritage Foundation Papers: Social Security Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:10:21 EST http://www.heritage.org/ui/icons/thflogo.gif http://www.heritage.org/ en-us heritage.org Copyright 2009 The Heritage Foundation A fiscal reform commission is essential to tackling the coming tsunami of entitlement spending and deficit red ink that threaten the economy. http://www.heritage.org/Research/Budget/wm2698.cfm The Heritage Foundation - Stuart M. Butler, Ph.D. Social Security Mon, 16 Nov 2009 09:30:37 EST http://www.heritage.org/Research/Budget/wm2698.cfm President Obama wants to give each Social Security recipient $250. But this would start converting the program to a welfare program. http://www.heritage.org/Research/SocialSecurity/wm2655.cfm The Heritage Foundation - David C. John Social Security Tue, 20 Oct 2009 10:43:14 EST http://www.heritage.org/Research/SocialSecurity/wm2655.cfm Social Security's deficits are likely to be permanent, and the only way out of this cash crunch is to fix the program. http://www.heritage.org/Research/SocialSecurity/wm2632.cfm The Heritage Foundation - David C. John Social Security Tue, 29 Sep 2009 11:21:38 EST http://www.heritage.org/Research/SocialSecurity/wm2632.cfm Entitlement spending is projected to exceed 20 percent of GDP by 2060. Furthermore, the U.S. will be spending a crushing 22 percent of GDP to service the debt accumulated from five decades of debt-financed federal spending. While Medicare and Medicaid spending poses a greater fiscal threat, Social Security offers a relatively smaller challenge that can be addressed within the parameters of the program itself. http://www.heritage.org/Research/SocialSecurity/bg2291.cfm The Heritage Foundation - Douglas Holtz-Eakin and Gordon Gray Social Security Tue, 30 Jun 2009 11:40:01 EST http://www.heritage.org/Research/SocialSecurity/bg2291.cfm Entitlement spending is projected to exceed 20 percent of GDP by 2060. Furthermore, the U.S. will be spending a crushing 22 percent of GDP to service the debt accumulated from five decades of debt-financed federal spending. While Medicare and Medicaid spending poses a greater fiscal threat, Social Security offers a relatively smaller challenge that can be addressed within the parameters of the program itself. http://www.heritage.org/Research/SocialSecurity/bg2291es.cfm The Heritage Foundation - Douglas Holtz-Eakin and Gordon Gray Social Security Tue, 30 Jun 2009 16:19:57 EST http://www.heritage.org/Research/SocialSecurity/bg2291es.cfm The fact that Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid are on an unsustainable course was reconfirmed by the latest annual reports from the Social Security and Medicare Trustees. http://www.heritage.org/Research/SocialSecurity/wm2458.cfm The Heritage Foundation - Nicola Moore Social Security Wed, 27 May 2009 16:31:56 EST http://www.heritage.org/Research/SocialSecurity/wm2458.cfm The 2009 Social Security Trustees Report was released on May 12. This paper explains the important facts and answers the frequently asked questions about Social Security's financial outlook. http://www.heritage.org/Research/SocialSecurity/wm2439.cfm The Heritage Foundation - David C. John Social Security Wed, 13 May 2009 11:39:13 EST http://www.heritage.org/Research/SocialSecurity/wm2439.cfm Simple steps like automatic enrollment in savings plans, incentives to encourage long-term care insurance, and delinking coverage from the workplace would foster long-term, personally owned insurance contracts that could be carried into retirement, maintain the coalition needed to assure that these programs will be preserved, and be consistent with our sense of social solidarity and mutual obligation across society and between generations. http://www.heritage.org/Research/SocialSecurity/hl1107.cfm The Heritage Foundation - Stuart M. Butler, Ph.D. Social Security Thu, 29 Jan 2009 10:10:16 EST http://www.heritage.org/Research/SocialSecurity/hl1107.cfm Given the uncertainty involved in long-term economic projections, the fact that CBO and Trustees estimates of the year of deficits and insolvency are actually fairly close together leaves little room to doubt the fact that Social Security is in trouble. Even under CBO’s rosier scenario, the benefit cuts or tax increases that would be necessary to balance the system would be severe. No matter what set of assumptions is used, it is clear that the next Congress and the next president must take the need for reform seriously. http://www.heritage.org/Research/SocialSecurity/wm2049.cfm The Heritage Foundation - Nicola Moore Social Security Thu, 04 Sep 2008 14:51:38 EST http://www.heritage.org/Research/SocialSecurity/wm2049.cfm Three former CBO directors and other budget analysts from across the political spectrum have urged a fundamental restructuring of Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security to avert an economic crisis and to avoid placing an unacceptable burden on future generations. The CBO says that if no action is taken to address this and deficits soar to expected levels, "the economy will eventually suffer serious damage." http://www.heritage.org/Research/Budget/bg2153.cfm The Heritage Foundation - Stuart M. Butler, Ph.D. Social Security Fri, 27 Jun 2008 14:57:43 EST http://www.heritage.org/Research/Budget/bg2153.cfm