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Social Security fixes include raising retirement age, taxable income cap: Conference Board
Report from policy think tank details the program's financial problems and suggests a number of reforms.
Cooling inflation points to 3% Social Security COLA for 2024
While prices for some essentials continue to increase, it's likely that the cost-of-living adjustment will be much lower than 2023's.
Now’s the time to talk about the future of Social Security
The InvestmentNews staff plans to ask policy and financial experts in the coming months about their vision for the future of Social Security in the 21st century.
Managing your clients’ expectations around Social Security
Don’t let clients sabotage their retirement plans because of fears about the program’s finances. Advisers can help clients put trust fund solvency woes into perspective.
Putting Social Security’s financial outlook in perspective
The acceleration in the projected depletion of the trust fund is bad, but given that this was the first report to include the effects of the pandemic-induced recession, the news could have been worse.
Social Security trust fund to be depleted 1 year sooner than expected
The 2021 Trustees Report shows the trust funds will run dry in 2034 as a result of the economic fallout from the pandemic.
Social Security Trust Fund report to document impacts of Covid-19
The long-delayed report, which is due every year no later than April 1, is expected this week and should highlight the pandemic's impact on program funding.
How proposals to tax more wages could boost Social Security benefits — or not
One possible way to improve the solvency of the Social Security system is to boost the amount of earnings subject to the payroll tax.