Improving Social Security Work Incentives: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Social Security of the Committee on Ways and Means, House of Representatives, One Hundred Sixth Congress, Second Session, February 15, 2000, Volume 4 |
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Page 83 - opportunity to testify before the Subcommittee today. I am Robert Greenstein, executive director of the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities here in Washington, DC The Center is a nonprofit policy institute that works on an array of public policy issues, with a particular interest in matters of fiscal policy and policy impacts on
Page 60 - the Committee on Economic Security appointed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt recommended that no benefits be paid before a person had "retired from gainful employment." Initially, the Social Security Act provided that benefits would not be paid for any month in which the individual had received "wages with respect to regular employment.
Page 58 - am Martha McSteen, president of the National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare, a grassroots education and advocacy organization representing millions of senior Americans. The
Page 93 - was adjourned.] [Submissions for the record follow:] The Honorable E. Clay Shaw, Jr. Chairman Committee on Ways and Means Subcommittee on Social Security US House of Representatives
Page 87 - and members of the Committee, I am Aldona Robbins, Vice President of Fiscal Associates and Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Policy Innovation (IPI). Thank you for the invitation to appear at
Page 48 - American Association of Retired Persons AARP appreciates this opportunity to present its views on the Social Security earnings limit
Page 78 - C. Eugene Steuerle and Jon M. Bakija, Retooling Social Security for the 21st Century (Washington: Urban Institute Press, 1994), p.
Page 14 - In that context, the retirement earnings test was designed as an objective measure of the extent to which earnings are lost due to retirement.
Page 85 - published by the Office of Research and Statistics of the Social Security Administration, for a