A Targeted Minimum Benefit Plan: A New Proposal to Reduce Poverty Among Older Social Security Recipients

A Targeted Minimum Benefit Plan: A New Proposal to Reduce Poverty Among Older Social Security Recipients

In recent years, the big news in Social Security reform has been the program’s fiscal concerns. In light of concerns about both program costs and benefit adequacy, we propose an effective and relatively inexpensive targeted program to provide a minimally adequate floor to old-­age income through the...

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Main Authors: Pamela Herd, Melissa Favreault, Madonna Harrington Meyer, Timothy M. Smeeding
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Russell Sage Foundation 2018-02-01
Series:RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences
Subjects:
elderly
poverty
social security
income guarantee
Online Access:https://www.rsfjournal.org/doi/full/10.7758/RSF.2018.4.2.04

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https://www.rsfjournal.org/doi/full/10.7758/RSF.2018.4.2.04

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