Misdirection plays a part in Social Security reform
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The debate in Washington, DC, has started over the reformation of Social Security. The 1935 plan of President Franklin D. Roosevelt is a safety net Americans have come to depend on.
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Three years after President Bush&#39;s Social Security commission proposed adding private investment accounts to the program, the action is heating up.
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Mention of Social Security&#39;s future triggers anxious questions. Will it be there when you retire? Will benefits be cut or eligibility changed?
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Under the White House Social Security plan, workers who opt to divert some of their payroll taxes into individual accounts would ultimately get to keep only the investment returns that exceed the rate of return that the money would have accrued in the traditional system.
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The Bush administration spent at least $2.8 million traveling around the country promoting its plan to let many people divert a portion of their Social Security taxes into private retirement accounts, congressional investigators said Friday.
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Almost half of the states may have to choose in the years ahead between their pension obligations and other public programs.
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Estimates are that by 2018 the Social Security system will start paying out more in benefits than it collects in taxes. By 2042, with the deficit approaching $13 trillion, the tax revenues are only expected to cover about 73 percent of benefits owed.
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In 1978, Peter Ferrara decided to write his third-year paper at Harvard Law School on the subject of Social Security. A self-professed conservative libertarian, Ferrara argued that the system would eventually run into financial trouble and that the best way to fix it was to let people put money into personal accounts that could be invested in stocks and bonds.
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With lawmakers expressing doubt  about its proposal to restructure the Social Security  retirement system, the White House acknowledged on Wednesday  that its plans for investment accounts are likely to undergo  changes to win approval.
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Whoever wins the election may have to make tough choices about Social Security's finances.
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President Bush has made his ambitious proposal to revamp Social Security a priority for his second term. This is the first part of an occasional series exploring the retirement
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Iin about 15 years, and probably less, this nation&#39;s retirement system will start to run a deficit, according to the Social Security&#39;s trustees.
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The Social Security system will take in more money annually than it pays out in benefits until 2020, two years later than earlier estimated, the Congressional Budget Office reported Monday in a modest change unlikely to alter the growing political debate over the program.
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Near-retirees age 55 and older would receive benefits without any changes under President Bush's far-reaching plan for Social Security. But the government guarantee would drop for younger workers whether or not they set up personal accounts.
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As restructuring Social Security moves to the top of his agenda, President Bush is sidestepping a troublesome problem: Medicare, which provides health insurance for
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As the two parties brace for the coming debate over restructuring Social Security, polls and focus groups for both sides have shown that voters -- especially older ones, who vote in disproportionately heavy numbers -- distrust any change that has the word "private" attached to it.
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Thousands of mistaken refunds point to a strained relationship between the Social Security and Medicare programs.