Social Security
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Options for Reducing the Deficit, 2023 to 2032--Volume I: Larger Reductions
CBO issues a volume describing 17 policy options that would each reduce the federal budget deficit by more than $300 billion over the next 10 years or, in the case of Social Security options, have a comparably large effect in later decades.
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Options for Reducing the Deficit, 2023 to 2032--Volume II: Smaller Reductions
CBO issues a volume that contains short descriptions of 59 policy options that would each reduce the federal budget deficit by less than $300 billion over the next 10 years.
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Estimated Revenue Effects of H.R. 7780, the Mental Health Matters Act
As Posted on the Website of the House Committee on Rules on September 23, 2022
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H.R. 82, Social Security Fairness Act of 2021
As ordered reported by the House Committee on Ways and Means on September 20, 2022
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The 2022 Long-Term Budget Outlook
The U.S. faces a challenging fiscal outlook according to CBO's extended baseline projections, which show budget deficits and federal debt held by the public growing steadily in relation to gross domestic product over the next three decades.
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The Budget and Economic Outlook: 2022 to 2032
In CBO’s projections, assuming that current laws generally remain unchanged, the federal deficit totals $1.0 trillion in fiscal year 2022 and averages $1.6 trillion per year from 2023 to 2032. Real GDP grows by 3.1 percent this year.
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Budgetary Effects of a Policy That Would Lower the Age of Eligibility for Medicare to 60
CBO and the staff of the Joint Committee on Taxation estimate that lowering the age of Medicare eligibility to 60 would increase federal budget deficits, change primary sources of health insurance, and increase the number of people insured.
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The Economic Effects of Waiting to Stabilize Federal Debt
CBO analyzes the economic effects of waiting to stabilize federal debt. The longer action is delayed, the larger the policy changes needed to stabilize debt. The timing and type of policy would determine its effects on different age and income groups.
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Estimated Changes in Direct Spending and Revenues Under H.R. 3617, the MORE Act
As Reported by the House Committee on the Judiciary on March 24, 2022, and Posted on the Website of the House Committee on Rules as Committee Print 117-37 on March 24, 2022
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CBO’s 2021 Long-Term Projections for Social Security: Additional Information
In lieu of publishing a separate report providing additional information about CBO’s long-term projections for Social Security, the agency is publishing the data that it would have presented in that report.