Retirement
- Cost Estimate
Potential Effects of H.R. 397, Rehabilitation for Multiemployer Pensions Act of 2019
Letter to the Honorable Mike Enzi
- 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
HISIM2—CBO’s New Health Insurance Simulation Model
Presentation by Geena Kim, an analyst in CBO’s Health, Retirement, and Long-Term Analysis Division, at the American Enterprise Institute.
- Working Paper
The Effect of the Employer Match and Defaults on Federal Workers’ Savings Behavior in the Thrift Savings Plan: Working Paper 2019-06
This paper develops an empirical model to forecast the effects on employee contribution rates and on employer costs if the federal government changed the employer match or the default contribution rate for participants in the Thrift Savings Plan.
- Cost Estimate
H.R. 2500, National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2020
As reported by the House Committee on Armed Services on June 19, 2019
- Blog Post
Director’s Statement on The 2019 Long-Term Budget Outlook
In our extended baseline projections in The 2019 Long-Term Budget Outlook, budget deficits drive federal debt held by the public to unprecedented levels.
- Report
The 2019 Long-Term Budget Outlook
If current laws generally remained unchanged, large budget deficits would boost federal debt to unprecedented levels over the next 30 years, CBO projects.
- Presentation
HISIM2—CBO’s New Health Insurance Simulation Model
Presentation by Geena Kim and Sean Lyons, analysts in CBO’s Health, Retirement, and Long-Term Analysis Division, at the 8th Annual Conference of the American Society of Health Economists.
- Report
Federal Mandatory Spending for Means-Tested Programs, 2009 to 2029
Under current law, outlays for federal mandatory means-tested programs would grow over the next decade at an average annual rate of 4 percent, whereas spending for mandatory non–means-tested programs would grow at an average rate of almost 6 percent, CBO projects.
- Report
Testimony on the Key Design Components and Considerations for Establishing a Single-Payer Health Care System
CBO testifies before the House Budget Committee on the agency's recent work analyzing the key design components and considerations for establishing a single-payer health care system.