Restructure Social Security: Policy Options From Report of the
National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform
Future Social Security Policy Options Deficit Reduction’
Gradually reduce future benefit payments to high earners while
Le) increasing them for low earners by 2050 ae Gradually increase taxable maximum to 90% of covered earnings
35% by 2050 Apply refined inflation measure (chained-CPI) to cost-of-living 26% index ° Gradually increase retirement ages to 68 by 2050 / 69 by 2075 21% Other? -- Total Future Social Security Deficit Reduction 116%?
Note: 1) As % of the estimated present value of Social Security trust fund cumulative deficit in future 75 years. 2) Other measures include boosting benefit to oldest old retirees and covering newly hired state and local workers after 2020. 3) total deficit reduction does not equal to the sum of individual reductions owing to policy interplay. Source: National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform, “The Moment of Truth: Report of the National Commission on
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Restructure Social Security: Declining USA Household Savings Rate Creates
Challenge to Reducing Benefits as Americans are Under-Saving, Thus Limiting Financial Cushion
Personal Savings Rate, 1965 — 2009
Personal Savings Rate (%)
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1965 1969 1973 1977 1981 1985 1989 1993 1997 2001 2005 2009
Note: Personal savings rate is calculated as the amount of savings divided by disposable income (income after taxes).
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