Social Security Funding
The latest news and developments affecting Social Security funding, and how legislative moves may help or hurt the program.
Trustees: Medicare trust fund exhausted in 2026
By Martin CrustsingerThis is two years later than what was projected last year.
April 22, 2013
Bedbugs invade hospitalsTry as they might, hospitals are having trouble discharging the little pests.
April 17, 2013
“I can’t do it”The effects of the sequestration are hitting the military just when America has been talking nonstop about its pivot to the Pacific.
April 04, 2013
A Development Bank Built by and for the BRICSA bank run by a force other than the U.S. and Europe could change things drastically for developing nationsif it lives up to its stated purpose.
March 20, 2013
Witness: Set tougher SSDI procedural rulesA former disability judge says claimants with professional representatives should be better prepared.
March 20, 2013
Witness: Set tougher SSDI procedural rulesA former disability judge says claimants with professional representatives should be better prepared.
March 18, 2013
Dietrich Pension Risk Transfer Index remains flatA key measure of the relative attractiveness of annuitizing pension liabilities ticked slightly upward in March.
March 14, 2013
Can a non-registered agent sell an indexed annuity?There is a lack of clear rules regarding what insurance only agents can do when recommending fixed products to consumers who may fund those products with funds from securities.