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42 Congressional Research Service reports and publications

Social Security: Selected Findings of the 2025 Annual Report
2025-06-25 · Resources · IF13045 · HTML available · PDF available
Social Security’s Projected Shortfall: The Role of Demographic Factors
2025-06-05 · Reports · R48557 · HTML available · PDF available
Social Security: Finances and Policy Options
2024-12-10 · Resources · IF12844 · HTML available · PDF available
Social Security Benefits and Price Indexing: Analysis of Selected Policy Options
2024-10-11 · Reports · R48224 · HTML available · PDF available
The Social Security Trust Funds in 2024 and Beyond
2024-06-04 · Testimony · TE10102 · HTML available · PDF available
Social Security: The Trust Funds
2024-05-23 · Reports · RL33028 · HTML available · PDF available
Social Security: Selected Findings of the 2024 Annual Report
2024-05-10 · Resources · IF12663 · HTML available · PDF available
Social Security: Estimated Impact of Hypothetical Solvency Measures
2024-02-21 · Reports · R47924 · HTML available · PDF available
Social Security: Future Financial Status and Accuracy of Projections
2023-08-16 · Reports · R47650 · HTML available · PDF available
Social Security’s Funding Shortfall
2023-05-10 · Resources · IF10522 · HTML available · PDF available
Social Security Trust Fund Investment Practices
2023-05-10 · Resources · IF10564 · HTML available · PDF available
Social Security Fundamentals: A Fact-Based Foundation
2023-04-26 · Testimony · TE10083 · HTML available · PDF available
Social Security: Selected Findings of the 2023 Annual Report
2023-04-05 · Resources · IF12375 · HTML available · PDF available
Social Security: Potential Impacts of Changes in Computation Years
2022-12-12 · Reports · R47330 · HTML available · PDF available
Social Security: Benefit Calculation
2022-11-17 · Reports · R46658 · HTML available · PDF available
Social Security: The Trust Funds and Interest Income
2022-11-15 · Resources · IF12248 · HTML available · PDF available
Social Security: Benefit Calculation Overview
2022-11-08 · Resources · IF11747 · HTML available · PDF available
Social Security: Scheduled Versus Payable Benefits
2022-10-14 · Resources · IF12231 · HTML available · PDF available
Social Security: What Would Happen If the Trust Funds Ran Out?
2022-09-28 · Reports · RL33514 · HTML available
Social Security: Selected Findings of the 2022 Annual Report
2022-06-14 · Resources · IF12133 · HTML available · PDF available
Social Security: Cost-of-Living Adjustments (COLAs) and the System’s Projected Financial Shortfall
2022-05-17 · Resources · IF12109 · HTML available · PDF available
Social Security Benefit Formula and Payroll Taxes: Potential Impacts of Policy Changes on Selected Worker Groups
2022-05-04 · Reports · R47087 · HTML available · PDF available
Social Security: How Do Children Qualify for Benefits?
2022-03-30 · Resources · IF12069 · HTML available · PDF available
Social Security: Trust Fund Status in the Early 1980s and Today and the 1980s Greenspan Commission
2022-03-04 · Reports · R47040 · HTML available · PDF available
Build Back Better Act: Universal Comprehensive Paid Leave
2021-12-09 · Resources · IF11994 · HTML available · PDF available
The Build Back Better Act, Universal Comprehensive Paid Leave Benefit Formula (as in November 3 Text), and State-Level Distribution of Workers: In Brief
2021-11-12 · Reports · R46966 · HTML available · PDF available
Social Security Financial Status: How the 2021 Annual Report Addressed the Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic
2021-10-15 · Resources · IF11946 · HTML available · PDF available
Social Security: Selected Findings of the 2021 Annual Report
2021-10-05 · Resources · IF11939 · HTML available · PDF available
Social Security: The Average Wage Index
2021-09-22 · Resources · IF11931 · HTML available · PDF available
Provisions Related to Universal Paid Family and Medical Leave Developed by the House Committee on Ways and Means in Response to Reconciliation Directives
2021-09-13 · Resources · IF11922 · HTML available · PDF available
Social Security: The Effects of Wage and Price Indexing on Benefits
2021-06-16 · Reports · R46819 · HTML available · PDF available
Social Security Long-Range Projections: Why 75 Years?
2021-06-11 · Resources · IF11851 · HTML available · PDF available
Potential Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Income Security of Older Americans
2020-11-24 · Reports · R46617 · HTML available · PDF available
The Social Security Trust Funds and the Budget
2020-08-07 · Resources · IF11615 · HTML available · PDF available
Social Security: Economic Growth and the Funding Shortfall
2020-08-06 · Reports · R46479 · HTML available · PDF available
Social Security Benefits and the Effect of Declines in Average Wages and Prices
2020-07-13 · Resources · IF11599 · HTML available
Paid Family and Medical Leave: Current Policy and Legislative Proposals in the 116th Congress
2020-06-03 · Reports · R46390 · HTML available · PDF available
Social Security, Deficits, and Debt
2020-06-01 · Resources · IF11560 · HTML available · PDF available
Social Security: Selected Findings of the 2020 Annual Report
2020-04-28 · Resources · IF11522 · HTML available · PDF available
Social Security: Demographic Trends and the Funding Shortfall
2019-11-04 · Reports · R45990 · HTML available · PDF available
Social Security: Select Findings of the 2019 Annual Report
2019-07-01 · Resources · IF11261 · HTML available · PDF available
Social Security: The Trust Funds and Alternative Investments
2019-05-02 · Reports · R45709 · HTML available · PDF available