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The management and solvency of the Social Security Trust Fund, including the use of nonmarketable Treasury securities and the impact of payroll taxes and interest.
Federal borrowing “against” the Social Security trust funds means the Treasury issues special-issue securities to the OASI/DI trusts and records intragovernmental debt; that practice has been constant...
would likely increase both reported payroll-tax contributions and future eligibility for Social Security benefits, producing a mixed but generally modest net effect: higher near-term revenues and a gr...
’s policies in the 1990s did not siphon away Social Security trust fund assets to create the long-term solvency problems often alleged; his administration proposed using unified-budget surpluses to pa...
pays cash assistance to low‑income elderly, blind and disabled people from the Treasury’s general revenues, not from Social Security payroll taxes or trust funds, while the Social Security programs th...
U.S.-born children of undocumented immigrants matter to Social Security and Medicare largely because they expand the future workforce that will pay payroll taxes; the Social Security Administration ha...