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Social Security's Earnings Test Penalty And The Employment Rates Of Elderly Men Aged 65 To 69, Stephen Rubb Jul 2003

Social Security's Earnings Test Penalty And The Employment Rates Of Elderly Men Aged 65 To 69, Stephen Rubb

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Social Security provides retirement income to eligible elderly individuals who reach age 62 and apply for benefits. Beyond this age, some recipients continue to work on a full- or part-time basis. The Social Security Administration reduces the annual level of benefits for those recipients who have earnings above a specified amount known as the earnings test threshold. Effective in 1990, the earnings test penalty for a person aged 65 to 69 was reduced from 50 cents to 33 cents for every dollar earned in excess of the annually adjusted threshold. The labor supply response to the 1990 reduction in the …


Hot Topic: Social Security Fact Sheet: 2003 Social Security Cost-Of-Living Adjustments, Ralph Cross Apr 2003

Hot Topic: Social Security Fact Sheet: 2003 Social Security Cost-Of-Living Adjustments, Ralph Cross

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Social Security Income (SSI) beneficiaries will receive a 1.4% percent cost-of-living adjustment for 2003.


Hot Topic: 2002 Irs, Social Security And Medicare Tax Changes For Election Officials And Workers, Ralph Cross Apr 2003

Hot Topic: 2002 Irs, Social Security And Medicare Tax Changes For Election Officials And Workers, Ralph Cross

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One of the tax law changes in 2002 pertaining to the Social Security Administration deals with the taxable threshold for wages paid election officials and workers.