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111 Congressional Research Service reports and publications

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
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
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: Are Benefits Paid to Incarcerated Individuals?
2022-06-22 · Resources · IF12138 · HTML available · PDF available
Social Security: Selected Findings of the 2022 Annual Report
2022-06-14 · Resources · IF12133 · 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: Cost-of-Living Adjustments (COLAs) and the System’s Projected Financial Shortfall
2022-05-17 · Resources · IF12109 · HTML available · PDF available
Social Security Survivors Benefits
2022-05-16 · Reports · RS22294 · HTML available
Social Security Administration (SSA) FY2022 Annual Limitation on Administrative Expenses (LAE) Appropriation: In Brief
2022-05-13 · Reports · R47103 · 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: The Widow(er)’s Limit Provision
2022-05-03 · Resources · IF12091 · HTML available · PDF available
Equal Protection Does Not Mean Equal SSI Benefits for Puerto Rico Residents, Says Supreme Court
2022-04-28 · Posts · LSB10737 · HTML available · PDF available
Social Security: How Do Children Qualify for Benefits?
2022-03-30 · Resources · IF12069 · HTML available · PDF available
Social Security Retirement Benefit Claiming Age
2022-03-15 · Resources · IF11115 · 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
Social Security: Who Is Covered Under the Program?
2022-01-18 · Resources · IF11824 · HTML available · PDF available
Social Security: Raising or Eliminating the Taxable Earnings Base
2021-12-22 · Reports · RL32896 · HTML available
Build Back Better Act: Universal Comprehensive Paid Leave
2021-12-09 · Resources · IF11994 · HTML available · PDF available
Children in Foster Care and Social Security Administration Benefits: Frequently Asked Questions
2021-11-23 · Reports · R46975 · 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 Dual Entitlement
2021-10-05 · Resources · IF10738 · 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
Social Security: Revisiting Benefits for Spouses and Survivors
2021-09-21 · Reports · R41479 · HTML 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
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: The Effects of Wage and Price Indexing on Benefits
2021-06-16 · Reports · R46819 · HTML available · PDF available
Social Security: Minimum Benefits
2021-06-15 · Reports · R43615 · HTML available · PDF available
Social Security Long-Range Projections: Why 75 Years?
2021-06-11 · Resources · IF11851 · HTML available · PDF available
The Social Security Administration’s Death Data: In Brief
2021-01-11 · Reports · R46640 · 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
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
Saving for Retirement: Household Decisionmaking and Policy Options
2020-07-02 · Reports · R46441 · HTML available · PDF available
Social Security: Taxation of Benefits
2020-06-12 · Reports · RL32552 · 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
The Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP) in Social Security: Comparing Current Law with Proposed Proportional Formulas
2020-01-24 · Reports · R46194 · HTML available · PDF available