Budget Options
- Blog Post
The Challenge of Deficit Reduction
In fiscal year 2012, the federal budget deficit surpassed $1 trillion for the fourth year in a row.
- Data and Technical Information
Medicare's Payments to Physicians: The Budgetary Impact of Alternative Policies Relative to CBO's March 2012 Baseline
Medicare’s payment rates for physicians’ services are scheduled to be reduced by 27 percent in 2013, CBO estimates, under the provisions of law known as Medicare’s Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) mechanism.
- Blog Post
CBO Releases Report on Policy Options for the Social Security Disability Insurance Program
The Social Security Disability Insurance (DI) program has expanded rapidly during the past few decades, and CBO projects that, under current law, future spending for the program will significantly exceed the revenues dedicated to it.
- Report
Policy Options for the Social Security Disability Insurance Program
The Disability Insurance program provided benefits to 8.3 million disabled workers in 2011. By 2022, CBO projects, the program will provide benefits to over 10 million disabled workers and spending on benefits will exceed $190 billion.
- Report
The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program
One in seven U.S. residents received benefits through the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) in 2011, at a total cost of $78 billion. Spending on SNAP benefits more than doubled between 2007 and 2011.
- Blog Post
Raising the Ages of Eligibility for Medicare and Social Security
Raising the ages at which people can begin to collect Medicare and Social Security benefits would be one way to lower federal outlays, raise revenues, and reduce long-term fiscal imbalances.
- Report
Raising the Ages of Eligibility for Medicare and Social Security
Raising the ages at which people can collect Medicare and Social Security would reduce federal spending and increase federal revenues by inducing some people to work longer.
- Blog Post
Options for Reducing the Deficit
The choices facing the 112th Congress come at a time when the federal government’s debt has increased dramatically in the past few years and when large annual budget deficits are projected to continue indefinitely under current laws or policies.
- Report
Reducing the Deficit: Spending and Revenue Options
CBO regularly issues a compendium of budget options to help inform federal lawmakers about the implications of possible policy choices. This volume presents more than 100 options for altering federal spending and revenues.
- Data and Technical Information
Collected Tables for Spending and Revenue Options - March 2011
Collected Tables for Spending and Revenue Options