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Summary of Provisions That Would Change the Social Security Program |
Description of Proposed Provisions:
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Estimates based on the intermediate assumptions of the 2008 Trustees Report
Change from present law | Results with this provision | |||||
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Long-range actuarial balance |
Annual balance in 75th year |
Long-range actuarial balance |
Annual balance in 75th year |
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Present Law, Alternative II. |
-1.70 | -4.20 | ||||
D1 | Raise payroll tax rates
(for employees and employers combined) by 1.8 percentage points
in 2009 and later. graph | table | pdf-graph | pdf-table |
1.77 | 1.81 | 0.07 | -2.40 | |
D2 | Raise payroll tax rates (for employees
and employers combined) by 1.6 percentage points in 2021 (to 14.0%
combined) and by an additional 1.6 percentage points in 2051
(to 15.6% combined). graph | table | pdf-graph | pdf-table |
1.70 | 3.21 | 0.01 | -0.99 |
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