Social Security Reform, With One Big Catch
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The idea that letting people invest some of their Social Security money in the stock market will allow for higher returns is as flawed as a perpetual motion machine.
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After reading a recent Expresso item I wrote supporting President Bush&#39;s plan to reform Social Security, a woman sent me an e-mail asking how her twentysomething son should invest his 401(k) funds.
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Estimates are that by 2018 the Social Security system will start paying out more in benefits than it collects in taxes. By 2042, with the deficit approaching $13 trillion, the tax revenues are only expected to cover about 73 percent of benefits owed.
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The Social Security system will take in more money annually than it pays out in benefits until 2020, two years later than earlier estimated, the Congressional Budget Office reported Monday in a modest change unlikely to alter the growing political debate over the program.
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The AARP bulletined its 35 million members last week that President Bush&#39;s plan to make personal investment accounts part of Social Security was the &quot;wrong direction
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Retirees living off Social Security are frustrated that they won't get tax rebate checks through a bipartisan economic stimulus package before the House. Senate Democrats Friday began efforts to include them.
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Politicians are starting to weigh changes to the federal retirement program. Reforms carry risk and can&#39;t be separated from nation&#39;s overall fiscal health.
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Social Security disability benefits may not be safe from the across-the-board cuts that are likely in President Bush's proposal to allow personal investment accounts.
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President Bush has made his ambitious proposal to revamp Social Security a priority for his second term. This is the first part of an occasional series exploring the retirement
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The cost of living adjustment intended to help more than 47 million Social Security recipients keep up with inflation is expected to be a tad larger in 2005 than it was this year, but the bad news is that much of the increase will be eaten up by higher Medicare premiums.
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Tens of thousands of Americans are discovering, as they approach retirement, that money they were promised is not forthcoming.
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If you're not prepared, inflation can ruin your retirement.
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Why has fixing Social Security become the epicenter of the US retirement debate while the easily bolstered private retirement system is largely ignored?
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Here's just what you need: another complication involving individual retirement accounts.
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More than 47 million Americans will get a 2.7 percent increase in their Social Security checks starting in January, meaning an additional &#36;25 per month for the typical retiree. But almost half of that gain will be gobbled up by a record increase in Medicare premiums.
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The challenge awaiting President Bush is to offer a plan for restoring the Social Security system to financial balance.
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It should come as little surprise that Social Security numbers are online. But people are always astounded to learn theirs is one of them.