Social Security
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CBO's Long-Term Social Security Projections: Changes Since 2017 and Comparisons With the Social Security Trustees' Projections
This report explains the changes to CBO’s long-term Social Security projections since last year and compares CBO’s projections with those of the Social Security Trustees.
- Presentation
CBO’s Long-Term Social Security Projections
Presentation by Julie Topoleski, Chief of the Long-Term Analysis Unit in CBO’s Health, Retirement, and Long-Term Analysis Division, to the Social Security Advisory Board’s 2019 Technical Panel on Assumptions and Methods.
- Cost Estimate
H.R. 6753, Strengthening the Health Care Fraud Prevention Task Force Act of 2018
As ordered reported by the House Committee on Energy and Commerce on September 13, 2018
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CBO’s 2018 Long-Term Projections for Social Security: Additional Information
In lieu of publishing a separate report providing additional information on the agency’s long-term projections for Social Security, CBO is publishing the data that it would have presented in that report.
- Blog Post
Director’s Statement on The 2018 Long-Term Budget Outlook
Today CBO released The 2018 Long-Term Budget Outlook. The report finds that if current laws generally remained unchanged, growing budget deficits would boost debt sharply in coming years.
- Report
The 2018 Long-Term Budget Outlook
If current laws remain generally unchanged, CBO projects, federal budget deficits and debt would increase over the next 30 years—reaching the highest level of debt relative to GDP in the nation’s history by far.
- Cost Estimate
H.R. 6084, Improving Social Security’s Service to Victims of Identity Theft Act
As ordered reported by the House Committee on Ways and Means on June 21, 2018
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Federal Mandatory Spending for Means-Tested Programs, 2008 to 2028
Outlays for mandatory means-tested programs would grow over the next decade at an average annual rate of 4 percent, whereas spending for mandatory non–means-tested programs would grow at an average rate of 6 percent, CBO projects.
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An Overview of CBOLT: The Congressional Budget Office Long-Term Model
CBOLT is the main analytical tool that CBO uses to make long-term projections of the economy and federal budget. Those projections help shed light on fiscal challenges that extend beyond CBO’s standard 10-year projection window.
- Blog Post
CBO’s Projections of Spending for the 2018–2028 Period
Last Monday, CBO released The Budget and Economic Outlook: 2018 to 2028. This week, CBO is publishing daily blog posts to share key excerpts from the report, and today’s post is about the agency’s projections of federal spending.