Disability Insurance
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Testimony on CBO’s Budget and Economic Outlook: 2016 to 2026
CBO Director Keith Hall testifies about the Budget and Economic Outlook: 2016 to 2026 before the Committee on the Budget, U.S. House of Representatives.
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The Budget Outlook for 2016 to 2026 in 19 Slides
This presentation of the budget 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.
- Report
CBO’s 2015 Long-Term Projections for Social Security: Additional Information
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.
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Social Security Policy Options, 2015
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.
- Cost Estimate
H.R. 1314, Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015
As reported by the House Committee on Rules on October 27, 2015. (See House Report 114-315.)
- Blog Post
Estimating the Effects of Federal Policies Targeting Obesity: Challenges and Research Needs
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.
- Cost Estimate
S. 1410, Smarter Sentencing Act of 2014
As ordered reported by the Senate Committee on the Judiciary on January 30, 2014
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The 2014 Long-Term Budget Outlook
If current laws remained generally unchanged, federal debt held by the public would exceed 100 percent of GDP by 2039 and would be on an upward path relative to the size of the economy—a trend that could not be sustained indefinitely.
- Cost Estimate
Senate Amendment 2631 to S. 1845, the Emergency Unemployment Compensation Extension Act
As proposed by Senator Reid on January 9, 2014
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Options for Reducing the Deficit: 2014 to 2023
CBO periodically issues a compendium of options—this installment presents more than 100—to inform lawmakers about the budgetary effects of ways to reduce the deficit.