Bringing them into Social Security would bolster the system's reserves and also end the "double dipping" that permits federal employees to retire early on a civil service pension, work for a few years in a job in private industry, and qualify for a Social Security pension too.
Therefore, in addition to saving Social Security and Medicare, I propose a new pension initiative for retirement security in the 21st century.
However, higher GDP growth means higher wages, and Social Security pension liabilities increase (with a lag) as wages increase.
It is also considering ways to fundamentally reform its social security pension system, perhaps privatizing a portion of it.
Today, all the money he receives from his early pension, Social Security and disability pays for his nursing home.
I'm nearly 66 and retired, but I earn too much now as a writer to qualify for a Social Security pension.
Reforms may be hammered out in education and immigration and (at a stretch) the environment and the Social Security pension system.
Only 35% said the committee should recommend "major changes" in the Social Security pension programme and the Medicare health programme for pensioners.
Many mandatory programmes like the Social Security pension programme, Medicaid healthcare for the poor, food aid, and others will not be affected.
But even if I resist the temptation until 2001, I can then expect a letter urging me to apply for a Social Security pension.
The Democratic plan does not include any changes to costly federal programmes such as the Medicare healthcare programme for over-65s and the Social Security pension programme.
In addition to this, the days when an employee could count on the company pension and Social Security benefit to provide a decent retirement income have faded.
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Given the expected decreases in employer- and government-funded retirement programs like pension and Social Security, future retirees will have to bear a greater burden for securing their retirement.
If such plans did not exist, who would pick up the tab for those baby boomers looking to retire soon, especially considering that private pension plans are going away, Social Security is nearly insolvent, and public pension plans are severely underfunded and mismanaged by state and municipal governments?
Social-security and pension spending rose by 7% over the same period although the population is relatively young.
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Many seniors have plenty of money to spend including Medicare dollars, and Social Security and pension benefits.
Social Security and pension plans used to provide a base level of retirement income that you could count on.
Most proposals for creating a defined-contribution alternative to a state pension plan or Social Security use an IRA or 401(k) model.
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Indeed, for private and public pension funds including Social Security, investing in healthcare companies could be the ideal natural hedge to their growing liabilities.
Disagreements center on job security, pension and wages, he said.
Postal workers began the 48-hour strike early on Monday after eight days of talks between the Royal Mail and CWU officials ended without a settlement on pay increases, pension benefits or job security.
The country still has a long journey ahead in its efforts to build health-care, pension and social-security systems to reassure citizens: all of these are necessary to persuade the middle class to save less.
The Social Security and pension fund annual increases based on the CPI made sense four decades ago when inflation was 12 percent and you could earn 12 percent in a plain vanilla bank certificate of deposit.
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After all, they may have to compete for jobs with a new generation of educated workers from rising economies like China and India, save for a retirement without a traditional pension and lower Social Security and Medicare benefits, and face higher tax rates to pay our growing national debt.
Decisions about investing pension assets affect the economic security of millions of beneficiaries and their families.
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Central to Mr Bush's short-term problem is what the disappearing surplus means for the social security surplus, the funds set aside for future Social Security, or pension, payments.
Gone are the days when people would work thirty or forty years with the same company, retire to a secure pension, with adequate Social Security benefits, and some personal savings for good measure.
In fact, the three-legged stool that for decades Americans were told would prop them up financially in retirement--Social Security, company pension and savings--has given way to a shakier two-legged version, sans the company pension.
In 1975 -- by no coincidence the first year that benefits were indexed to inflation -- Social Security's pension fund, whose formal title is Old-Age and Survivors Insurace (OASI), paid out more than it took in.
One rule of thumb is to aim for total savings of eight to 12 times your annual income, with the higher number applying to higher earners, or 25 times what you will need to withdraw in retirement after Social Security and any pension income.
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