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- Cost Estimate
As posted on the Web site of the House Committee on Rules (Committee Print 112-34) and subsequently amended on November 28, 2012
- Working Paper
Taxation of Owner-Occupied and Rental Housing
- Cost Estimate
As ordered reported by the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs on September 20, 2012 S. 65 would reauthorize the Native Hawaiian Housing Block Grant and Loan Guarantee programs and would authorize the appropriation of such sums as necessary for those programs for each fiscal year through 2015. In addition, the bill would authorize loans provided under title VI of the Native American Housing Assistance and Self- Determination Act of 1996 for each fiscal year through 2015 and would expand eligibility for that program to include the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands (DHHL).
- Data and Technical Information
This file contains data that supplement information presented in CBO’s 2012 Long-Term projections for Social Security: Additional Information (October 2012).
- Blog Post
CBO estimates that in fiscal year 2012, spending for Social Security totaled $773 billion, equal to about 5 percent of gross domestic product and one-fifth of federal spending. As more members of the baby-boom generation retire and the U.S. population grows older in the coming decades, Social Security outlays are projected to grow more rapidly than the economy and more rapidly than the program’s dedicated tax revenues.
- Report
The 2012 Long-Term Projections for Social Security: Additional Information
- Cost Estimate
As ordered reported by the House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs on July 11, 2012 H.R. 5747 would reduce direct spending by extending for one month an expiring provision of law that limits pensions paid to certain veterans who are receiving Medicaid coverage in a Medicaid-approved nursing home.
- Cost Estimate
As ordered reported by the House Committee on Financial Services on September 12, 2012 H.R. 6361 would modify certain formulas for calculating subsidies to families that receive federal housing assistance. Assuming that future appropriations actions are consistent with the bill, CBO estimates that implementing H.R. 6361 would reduce discretionary spending for the affected programs by $270 million over the 2013-2017 period. Enacting the bill would not affect direct spending or revenues; therefore, pay-as-you-go procedures do not apply.
- Cost Estimate
As introduced in the United States Senate on May 10, 2012 The Home Affordable Refinance Program (HARP) is administered by the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) to assist certain homeowners with refinancing mortgages that are guaranteed by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, also known collectively as the housing government-sponsored enterprises, or GSEs. S. 3085 would require the FHFA to expand the number of homeowners that are eligible to participate in HARP and reduce the initial costs of the program to homeowners. The bill also would:
- Blog Post
The Social Security Disability Insurance (DI) program has expanded rapidly during the past few decades, and CBO projects that, under current law, future spending for the program will significantly exceed the revenues dedicated to it.