Disability Insurance
- Report
An Update to the Budget and Economic Outlook: 2019 to 2029
In CBO’s projections, federal budget deficits remain large by historical standards, and federal debt grows to equal 95 percent of GDP by 2029. Economic growth is expected to slow from 2.3 percent in 2019 to a rate that is below its long-run historical average.
- Presentation
Overlapping Generations Model Roundtable: Model Comparisons From a Stylized Social Security Experiment
Presentation by Kerk Phillips, an analyst in CBO’s Macroeconomic Analysis Division, at the National Tax Association’s 49th annual Spring Symposium.
- Blog Post
CBO Releases an Interactive Tool for Analyzing the Effects of Certain Social Security Policies
This interactive tool lets users select different combinations of policies and see the effect on the finances of the Social Security system, as well as the impact on different groups of people.
- Interactive
How Changing Social Security Could Affect Beneficiaries and the System's Finances
This interactive tool lets the user explore seven policy options that could be used to improve the finances of the Social Security program and delay the exhaustion of its trust funds.
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The Budget and Economic Outlook: 2019 to 2029
In CBO’s projections, deficits remain large by historical standards, and federal debt grows to equal 93 percent of GDP by 2029. As the effects of fiscal stimulus wane, projected economic growth falls back below the historical average.
- Report
Options for Reducing the Deficit: 2019 to 2028
CBO periodically issues a volume of options—this year’s installment presents 121—that would decrease federal spending or increase federal revenues. CBO’s website allows users to filter options by topic, date, and other categories.
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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.
- Report
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.
- Report
The Budget and Economic Outlook: 2018 to 2028
In CBO’s projections, the economy grows relatively quickly this year and next and then more slowly in the following several years. The federal budget deficit rises substantially, boosting federal debt to nearly 100 percent of GDP by 2028.
- Report
CBO’s 2017 Long-Term Projections for Social Security: Additional Information
This year, 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.