The financial health of Social Security and Medicare, two of the nation’s most crucial safety net programs, improved this ...
Dire new budget projections and high-stakes policy deadlines mean lawmakers may be forced to take up the issue — or face the consequences of inaction.
But both programs are still on pace to run dry next decade. The 2024 Social Security and Medicare Trustees Reports, however, did offer a glimmer of good news for Social Security and a jolt of good ...
The future of Social Security and Medicare is likely to be debated as Congress turns its attention next year to a series of fiscal fights, including the debt ceiling and expiration of the 2017 ...
Social Security and Medicare will run out of money in just ... but renewing the whole package would add $3 trillion over the next decade to the nation’s already enormous burden of $28 trillion ...
This week's news from the Social Security and Medicare trustees ought to underscore ... likely ensures devastating tax increases in the next decade and beyond. "Congress should tackle these ...
This week's news from the Social Security and Medicare trustees ought to underscore ... likely ensures devastating tax increases in the next decade and beyond. "Congress should tackle these ...
Social Security and Medicare are both set to face insolvency within the next decade if no changes are made to the programs’ benefits or funding structures, federal actuaries predict. November ...
Stronger-than-expected economic growth last year drove improvements to the fiscal health of the trust funds that finance Medicare ... Social Security and disability trust funds solvent for the ...