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- Report
Spending on the Social Security program will exceed its dedicated tax revenues, on average, by about 12 percent over the next decade, CBO projects. The gap will grow larger in the 2020s and will exceed 30 percent of revenues by 2030.
- Working Paper
This paper shows that considering an aging population is important in analyzing long-term policy changes that involve intergenerational transfers.
- Data and Technical Information
The Budgetary Impact of Alternative Policies Relative to CBO's May 2013 Baseline updated for Final Rule
- Blog Post
The 23 options related to mandatory spending would generally decrease the amount paid to beneficiaries, redefine the population that is entitled to benefits of various programs, or reduce payments to state and local governments.
- Blog Post
Most of the 16 options that CBO examined would either decrease federal spending on health programs or increase revenues (or equivalently, reduce tax expenditures) as a result of changes in tax provisions related to health care.
- Report
This document is a reprint of Chapter 5 of CBO's publication Options for Reducing the Deficit: 2014 to 2023 (November 2013).
- Presentation
Presentation by Molly Dahl and Kevin Perese, CBO Analysts, at the Urban Institute
- Cost Estimate
As reported by the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions on October 30, 2013
- Presentation
Presentation by Doug Elmendorf, CBO Director, to the University of Pennsylvania Wharton School
- Blog Post
Director Doug Elmendorf discusses why federal health care spending is growing rapidly and what changes in policy could slow that growth.