Social Security
Top Ten Facts about Social Security
"[Social Security] remains one of the nation’s most successful, effective, and popular programs. It provides a foundation of income on which workers can build to plan for their retirement. It also provides valuable social insurance protection to workers who become disabled and to families whose breadwinner dies."
This Policy Basic outlines ten key facts about the program. Read more
Social Security Keeps 20 Million Americans Out of Poverty
“Some 13.2 million elderly Americans are lifted out of poverty by Social Security....
“Social Security reduces elderly poverty dramatically in every state in the nation....
“In all, 1.1 million children are lifted out of poverty by Social Security.” Read more
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Basics
Social Security provides monthly benefits to more than 50 million retired workers and workers with disabilities, their dependents, and their survivors. Though Social Security is best known as a retirement program, one-fifth of the program's beneficiaries are non-elderly adults (under age 62) or children who receive survivors' benefits or disability insurance benefits.
Policy Basics:
- Top Ten Facts on Social Security
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The Center examines the effects of Social Security on poverty (including poverty among children) and on particular demographic groups. We also analyze Social Security reform proposals to determine their likely impact on the program’s long-term solvency and its effectiveness in reducing poverty and hardship.
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Social Security Does Not Need a “Bailout”
Updated August 24, 2010
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Podcast: Social Security Reduces Poverty
August 17, 2010
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Policy Basics: Top Ten Facts about Social Security on the Program's 75th Anniversary
August 13, 2010
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What the 2010 Trustees’ Report Shows about Social Security
August 13, 2010
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Social Security Keeps 20 Million Americans Out of Poverty:
August 11, 2010
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