Social security background, issues and proposals (Nova Science Publishers, 2011)
Includes index
""SOCIAL SECURITY: BACKGROUND, ISSUES AND PROPOSALS""; ""SOCIAL SECURITY: BACKGROUND, ISSUES AND PROPOSALS ""; ""CONTENTS ""; ""PREFACE ""; ""SOCIAL SECURITY: THE TRUST FUND ""; ""SUMMARY ""; ""INTRODUCTION ""; ""HOW THE SOCIAL SECURITY PROGRAM IS FINANCED ""; ""THE SOCIAL SECURITY TRUST FUND AS A DESIGNATED ACCOUNT ""; ""Social Security Trust Fund Revenues ""; ""Social Security Trust Fund Costs ""; ""Social Security Trust Fund Operations""; ""Investment of the Social Security Trust Fund ""; ""The Social Security Trust Fund and the Federal Budget ""; ""On-Budget versus Off-Budget ""
""THE SOCIAL SECURITY TRUST FUND AS ACCUMULATED HOLDINGS """"The Social Security Trust Fund and the Level of Federal Debt ""; ""The Social Security Trust Fund and Federal Default ""; ""The Social Security Trust Fund and Benefit Payments ""; ""End Notes ""; ""SOCIAL SECURITY: TRUST FUND INVESTMENT PRACTICES ""; ""SUMMARY ""; ""BACKGROUND ""; ""ISSUES ""; ""End Notes""; ""SOCIAL SECURITY, SAVING, AND THE ECONOMY ""; ""SUMMARY ""; ""INTRODUCTION ""; ""SAVING AND THE ECONOMY ""; ""EXPLAINING HOUSEHOLD SAVING ""; ""Life Cycle Saving ""; ""Precautionary Saving ""
""Recent Trends in Household Saving""""SOCIAL SECURITY AND HOUSEHOLD SAVING ""; ""SAVING AND SOCIAL SECURITY REFORM ""; ""Fully Funded vs. Pay As You Go ""; ""Defined Benefit vs. Defined Contribution ""; ""Investing the Trust Fund in Private Securities ""; ""End Notes ""; ""SOCIAL SECURITY RETIREMENT EARNINGS TEST: HOW EARNINGS AFFECT BENEFITS ""; ""SUMMARY ""; ""INTRODUCTION ""; ""HISTORICAL BACKGROUND ""; ""CURRENT LAW ""; ""Social Security Worker and Auxiliary Benefits ""; ""The RET Applies to Beneficiaries below the Social Security Full Retirement Age ""
""The RET Reduces Social Security Benefits """"The RET Exempt Amounts""; ""Grace Year ""; ""The RET May Affect Social Security Benefits Received by Spouses, Survivors and Other Dependents""; ""Dually Entitled Beneficiaries ""; ""BENEFITS WITHHELD UNDER THE RET ARE RESTORED STARTING AT FRA ""; ""WORKER BENEFICIARIES WITH EARNINGS IN 2006 ""; ""APPLICATION OF THE RETIREMENT EARNINGS TEST ""; ""POLICY ISSUES ""; ""The RET and Work Incentives ""; ""The RET and Incentives to Claim Social Security Benefits ""; ""The RET, Retirement Security and Early Benefit Claims ""; ""Other Policy Issues ""