Disability Insurance
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Changes to CBO’s Long-Term Social Security Projections Since 2016
This report explains the changes to CBO’s long-term Social Security projections since last year. Compared with those made in July 2016, CBO’s latest projections indicate a slight improvement in the financial outlook for Social Security.
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H.R. 3120, a bill to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to reduce the volume of future electronic health record-related significant hardship requests
As ordered reported by the House Committee on Energy and Commerce on October 4, 2017
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Testimony on CBO’s Budget and Economic Outlook: 2017 to 2027
CBO Director Keith Hall testifies about CBO’s report The Budget and Economic Outlook: 2017 to 2027 before the House Budget Committee.
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CBO’s 2016 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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Answers to Questions for the Record From Ranking Member Becerra Following a Hearing by the House Ways and Means Subcommittee on Social Security on Understanding Social Security’s Solvency Challenge
The House Ways and Means Subcommittee on Social Security convened a hearing at which CBO’s Director testified on financial shortfalls projected for Social Security. This document provides CBO’s answers to questions submitted for the record.