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Social Security Reform: Fundamental Restructuring Or Incremental Change?, Kathryn L. Moore
Social Security Reform: Fundamental Restructuring Or Incremental Change?, Kathryn L. Moore
Law Faculty Scholarly Articles
In light of Social Security's long-term deficit, reform of the system appears inevitable. Commentators and policymakers have offered a wide range of possible reforms. This Article describes and analyzes five possible types of reform: (1) individual accounts, (2) progressive price indexing, (3) general revenue and/or estate tax revenue financing, (4) increasing the maximum taxable wage base, and (5) increasing the normal retirement. The Article opposes the first two proposed changes, individual accounts and progressive price indexing, because they would fundamentally restructure the current system. The Article recommends that Social Security's financing difficulties be addressed by a combination of estate tax …
Book Review | The Battle For Social Security: From Fdr’S Vision To Bush’S Gamble By Nancy J. Altman (2005), Kathryn L. Moore
Book Review | The Battle For Social Security: From Fdr’S Vision To Bush’S Gamble By Nancy J. Altman (2005), Kathryn L. Moore
Law Faculty Scholarly Articles
This book review examines The Battle for Social Security: From FDR’s Vision to Bush’s Gamble by Nancy J. Altman (2005).
Outlawing Pension-Funding Shortfalls, Eric D. Chason
Outlawing Pension-Funding Shortfalls, Eric D. Chason
Faculty Publications
Before ERISA, employees faced a large risk that their employers would default or renege on pension obligations. By creating a federal guarantor of pensions (the PBGC), ERISA has greatly reduced this risk. All else being equal, low-risk pensions are worth more to employees but cost more to provide. Congress has never had a coherent policy on who should pay for these extra costs. Moreover, legal scholars have failed to create a theoretical framework for dealing with these costs, focusing instead on the supposed "moral hazard" that the PBGC guaranty creates. This Article inserts itself into the scholarly vacuum, asserting that …
Social Security Reform: Lessons From Private Pensions, Karen C. Burke, Grayson M.P. Mccouch
Social Security Reform: Lessons From Private Pensions, Karen C. Burke, Grayson M.P. Mccouch
UF Law Faculty Publications
Widespread concerns about the long-term fiscal gap in Social Security have prompted various proposals for structural reform, with individual accounts as the centerpiece. Carving out individual accounts from the existing system would shift significant risks and responsibilities to individual workers. A parallel development has already occurred in the area of private pensions. Experience with 401(k) plans indicates that many workers will have difficulty making prudent decisions concerning investment and withdrawal of funds. Moreover, in implementing any system of voluntary individual accounts, it will be important to design default settings that provide appropriate guidance for workers with heterogeneous levels of financial …
Social Security Reform: An Analysis Of The Ball/Altman Three-Point Plan, Kathryn L. Moore
Social Security Reform: An Analysis Of The Ball/Altman Three-Point Plan, Kathryn L. Moore
Law Faculty Scholarly Articles
In light of Social Security's long-term funding deficit, Robert Ball, a long-serving former Commissioner of the Social Security Administration, has proposed a three part plan that would bring the Social Security system into close actuarial balance. The first part of the plan consists of gradually increasing the maximum earnings base until it reaches 90 percent of earnings. The second part of the plan calls for dedicating the estate tax to funding Social Security beginning in 2010, and the third part of the plan consists of investing a portion of the Social Security trust fund in equities. Nancy Altman, Chairman of …