Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget

Social Security

Lorenzen: Comprehensive Social Security Reform is Best to Address SSDI Insolvency

Ed Lorenzen, Senior Advisor for the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, testified Wednesday in front of the Ways and Means Social Security...

CRFB's Ed Lorenzen Testifies to Congress on SSDI

This afternoon, Ed Lorenzen, Senior Advisor for the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget,
Social Security

The President’s Social Security Proposals

The President proposed last week, through his FY 2016 budget, a number of proposals to reform Social Security in small ways, including measures to...

Dispelling Common Myths in the SSDI Debate

The President's FY 2016 Budget last week proposed dealing with the upcoming Fiscal Speed Bump of the exhaustion of the Social Security Disability...

Trust Fund Deadlines Are Closing In

In addition to updating budget projections, CBO's baseline also looks at the state of various government trust funds over the next ten years. Two...

Fiscal Speed Bumps Will Keep the New Congress Busy

Although the 114th Congress is just getting settled, it will have to move quickly to address a series of deadlines with serious policy and fiscal...

CBO Shows Social Security is in Financial Trouble

It is clear that Social Security faces financial challenges. This year, its own Trustees estimated the combined trust funds would run out of reserves...

Sen. Coburn Introduces Bill to Reform SSDI

In his final week on Capitol Hill, retiring Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK) introduced a bill with a wide-ranging set of measures to, in his words, protect...

The ABLE Act: A Model for PAYGO

The House passed the ABLE Act yesterday, a bill that helps those who have been disabled since youth accumulate savings. The bill, with an estimated...

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