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45 Congressional Research Service reports and publications

Income for the Population Ages 65 and Older: Evidence from the Health Retirement Study (HRS)
2025-08-05 · Reports · R47341 · HTML available · PDF available
Nontraditional Workers and Retirement Saving: An Overview and Discussion of Policy Issues
2025-04-07 · Reports · R48484 · HTML available · PDF available
Railroad Retirement Board: Retirement, Survivor, Disability, Unemployment, and Sickness Benefits
2025-03-11 · Resources · IF10481 · HTML available · PDF available
Railroad Retirement Board: Retirement, Survivor, Disability, Unemployment, and Sickness Benefits
2025-03-11 · Reports · RS22350 · HTML available · PDF available
The Social Security Fairness Act of 2023
2025-01-31 · Resources · IF12890 · HTML available · PDF available
Social Security: Finances and Policy Options
2024-12-10 · Resources · IF12844 · HTML available · PDF available
The Social Security Fairness Act of 2023 (H.R. 82): Background for Congress
2024-11-13 · Posts · IN12451 · HTML available · PDF available
Social Security: Beneficiaries Affected by Both the Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP) and the Government Pension Offset (GPO)
2024-11-13 · Reports · R45845 · HTML available · PDF available
Overpayments in the Social Security Administration’s Programs: In Brief
2024-10-31 · Reports · R48251 · HTML available · PDF available
Social Security and Older Workers
2024-10-16 · Reports · R48232 · HTML available · PDF available
Social Security: The Lump-Sum Death Benefit
2024-10-09 · Reports · R43637 · HTML available · PDF available
Social Security Overpayments: Debt Recovery
2024-04-12 · Resources · IF12632 · HTML available · PDF available
Social Security Coverage of State and Local Government Employees
2024-03-19 · Reports · R46961 · HTML available · PDF available
Social Security: The Government Pension Offset (GPO)
2024-03-07 · Reports · RL32453 · HTML available
Social Security: The Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP) and the Government Pension Offset (GPO)
2024-02-28 · Resources · IF10203 · HTML available · PDF available
Social Security: The Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP)
2024-02-28 · Reports · 98-35 · HTML available · PDF available
The Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP) in Social Security: Proposals for a New Proportional Formula
2023-09-19 · Resources · IF11355 · HTML available · PDF available
Social Security Retirement Earnings Test: How Earnings Affect Benefits
2023-05-10 · Reports · R41242 · HTML available · PDF available
Data on State and Local Public Sector Employment Not Covered Under Social Security
2023-04-04 · Reports · R47499 · HTML available · PDF available
Social Security Taxable Earnings Base: An Overview
2023-03-27 · Resources · IF12360 · HTML available · PDF available
Retirement Income Security: Issues and Policies
2023-02-17 · Resources · IF12330 · HTML available · PDF available
The Social Security Retirement Age: An Overview
2023-02-09 · Resources · IF12323 · HTML available · PDF available
Social Security: Potential Impacts of Changes in Computation Years
2022-12-12 · Reports · R47330 · HTML available · PDF available
Poverty Among the Population Aged 65 and Older
2022-12-06 · Reports · R45791 · HTML available · PDF available
Railroad Retirement Board: Trust Fund Investment Practices
2022-08-01 · Reports · RS22782 · HTML available
The Social Security Statement
2022-07-18 · Reports · R47183 · HTML available · PDF available
The Social Security Retirement Age
2022-07-06 · Reports · R44670 · HTML available · PDF available
Social Security: Adjustment Factors for Early or Delayed Benefit Claiming
2022-06-08 · Reports · R47151 · HTML available · PDF available
Social Security Survivors Benefits
2022-05-16 · Reports · RS22294 · HTML available
Social Security: The Widow(er)’s Limit Provision
2022-05-03 · Resources · IF12091 · HTML available · PDF available
Social Security Retirement Benefit Claiming Age
2022-03-15 · Resources · IF11115 · HTML available · PDF available
Social Security Retirement Earnings Test Overview
2022-01-11 · Resources · IF12014 · HTML available · PDF available
Social Security: Raising or Eliminating the Taxable Earnings Base
2021-12-22 · Reports · RL32896 · HTML available
Social Security: Special Minimum Benefit and Windfall Elimination Provision
2021-11-16 · Resources · IF11975 · HTML available · PDF available
Social Security Dual Entitlement
2021-10-05 · Resources · IF10738 · HTML available · PDF available
Social Security: Revisiting Benefits for Spouses and Survivors
2021-09-21 · Reports · R41479 · HTML available
Demographic and Socioeconomic Characteristics of Older Households with Debt: 2019
2021-08-09 · Reports · R46870 · HTML available · PDF available
The Growing Gap in Life Expectancy by Income: Recent Evidence and Implications for the Social Security Retirement Age
2021-07-06 · Reports · R44846 · HTML available · PDF available
Social Security: Minimum Benefits
2021-06-15 · Reports · R43615 · 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
Social Security Special Minimum Benefit: Policy Options
2020-11-02 · Reports · R46589 · HTML available · PDF available
Saving for Retirement: Household Decisionmaking and Policy Options
2020-07-02 · Reports · R46441 · HTML available · PDF available
The Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP) in Social Security: Comparing Current Law with Proposed Proportional Formulas
2020-01-24 · Reports · R46194 · HTML available · PDF available
Household Debt Among Older Americans, 1989-2016
2019-09-11 · Reports · R45911 · HTML available · PDF available
Trends in Social Security Disability Insurance Enrollment
2018-11-30 · Reports · R45419 · HTML available · PDF available