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In 2015, Social Security Disability Insurance (DI) benefit payments totaled $143 billion. CBO examines approaches that could improve the financial sustainability of the DI program and delay exhaustion of the DI trust fund past 2022.
- Report
In 2013, households in the top, middle, and bottom income quintiles received 53, 14, and 5 percent, respectively, of the nation's before-tax income and paid 69, 9, and 1 percent, respectively, of federal taxes.
- Report
In 2014, 16 percent of men in the United States between the ages of 18 and 34 were jobless or incarcerated, up from 11 percent in 1980. Those numbers and related longer-term trends have significant economic and budgetary implications.
- Cost Estimate
As reported by the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions on April 4, 2016
- Report
CBO and the staff of the JCT project that the federal subsidies, taxes, and penalties associated with health insurance coverage for people under age 65 will result in a net subsidy from the federal government of $660 billion in 2016.
- Cost Estimate
Letter to the Honorable Pat Roberts regarding the estimated budgetary effects of the Improving Child Nutrition Integrity and Access Act of 2016, as ordered reported by the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry on January 20, 2016, and posted on the committee’s website.
- Report
In CBO’s baseline projections, mandatory outlays for means-tested programs are projected to grow at an average annual rate of 4.3 percent, compared with an average rate of 5.5 percent for non-means-tested programs.
- Cost Estimate
As ordered reported by the House Committee on Ways and Means on February 3, 2016
- Blog Post
In an opening statement to the House Budget Committee, CBO Director Keith Hall discussed The Budget and Economic Outlook: 2016 to 2026, which was released in January.
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This presentation of the economic outlook for the coming decade highlights the key findings from CBO’s report The Budget and Economic Outlook: 2016 to 2026, which was released in January.