Social security and the family : addressing unmet needs in an underfunded system
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Social security and the family : addressing unmet needs in an underfunded system
Urban Institute Press, c2002
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Contents of Works
- Introduction : perspectives on the structure and role of family benefits / Melissa M. Favreault, Frank J. Sammartino, and C. Eugene Steuerle
- Family benefits in social security : a historical commentary / Edward D. Berkowitz
- The status of the retired population, now and in the future / Karen E. Smith
- Social security and single mothers : options for "making work pay" into retirement / Sheila R. Zedlewski with Rumki Saha
- Social security and the treatment of families : how does the United States compare with other developed countries? / Lawrence Thompson and Adam Carasso
- Social security benefits for spouses and survivors : options for change / Melissa M. Favreault, Frank J. Sammartino, and C. Eugene Steuerle
- Women and individual accounts / Rudolph Penner and Elizabeth Cove
- Multiple choices : property rights and individual accounts / Pamela Perun
- The family, social security, and the retirement decision / Melissa M. Favreault and Richard W. Johnson
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As the baby boom generation gets closer to retirement, the debate over Social Security reform becomes more urgent. Unfortunately, policymakers remain fixated on individual accounts and other ways for the system to accumulate more savings. This narrow focus ignores an equally important, if not more important, challenge--how to address the needs of those who have been left out as demographics and work habits have changed the structure of the American family. In this book, budget experts and social scientists examine the history of family benefits in Social Security and show how changes in the retired population have affected the nature of these benefits and their ability to serve the elderly. They examine the current structure of spousal and survivors benefits and evaluate a variety of reform proposals--including individual accounts--that could improve the living standards of the neediest Social Security beneficiaries. It is essential analysis for anyone concerned about the future of America's most successful social program.
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