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Under current law, CBO projects, Social Security’s trust funds, considered together, will be exhausted in 2029. In that case, benefits in 2030 would need to be reduced by 29 percent from the scheduled amounts.
- Report
CBO analyzes 36 policy options commonly proposed by policymakers and analysts. Most of them would improve Social Security’s long-term finances, but only a few would significantly postpone the combined trust funds’ exhaustion date.
- Working Paper
This paper provides estimates of how Medicare spending per beneficiary for people of different ages and for different types of services has changed in recent years.
- Report
In 2016, low- and moderate-income workers will face an effective marginal tax rate of 31 percent, on average. Federal individual income and payroll taxes will be the main contributors.
- Cost Estimate
As ordered reported by the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs on October 7, 2015
- Cost Estimate
As reported by the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform on October 9, 2015
- Cost Estimate
As reported by the House Committee on Rules on October 27, 2015. (See House Report 114-315.)
- Cost Estimate
As posted on the website of the House Committee on Rules on October 27, 2015 (Version f:\VHLC\102715\102715.013.xml)
- Blog Post
CBO concludes that existing evidence does not indicate that certain policies to treat obesity would significantly reduce federal spending. Additional well-designed studies on the effects of such policies would be useful for CBO's analysis.
- Presentation
Presentation by CBO analyst Elizabeth Cove Delisle, with Natalie Tawil, to the Council of Large Public Housing Authorities, describing federal housing assistance to low-income households and the characteristics of households receiving it.