by Brenton Smith | Dec 10, 2024 | The Forum
The U.S. House of Representatives passed the Social Security Fairness Act of 2023 on Nov. 12, pushing the repeal of the Windfall Elimination Provision and the Government Pension Offset to the Senate for consideration. If the legislation becomes law, nearly...
by Brenton Smith | Apr 19, 2024 | The Forum
The Social Security Administration is in the process of recovering $23 billion in over-payments made in the past to beneficiaries, many of whom are now struggling to repay the bill at a time when their benefit checks from the agency are shrinking. That...
by Brenton Smith | Oct 5, 2022 | The Forum
Social Security is in a dire financial state in part because it is entirely possible to get elected to the Congress without saying anything about the program. Even in a good economy, the program’s prospects are not great. Given the latest forecasts from the...
by Brenton Smith | Jan 19, 2017 | The Forum
Late last month, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released its updated projections for Social Security (see “CBO’s 2016 Long-Term Projections for Social Security”). Long story short: CBO believes that the consequences are larger, arrive sooner and tend to be much...
