Social Security Retirement Earnings Test How Earnings Affect Benefits

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Research.

Retirement income.

Social security.

Wages.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Contained In:

ProQuest U.S. Congressional Research Digital Collection

Place of Publication:

[United States] [publisher not identified] 2011

Summary:

Describes how social security retirement earnings test (RET) is applied under current law; and provides detailed benefit examples to show how RET affects both the worker beneficiary and his or her family members who also receive benefits. Explains features of RET that are not widely known or understood, such as recomputation of benefits when a beneficiary attains full retirement age, worker beneficiaries with earnings in 2006, and application of RET. Discusses related policy issues, including recent research on the effect of RET on work effort and the decision to claim social security benefits. Includes tables and side-by-side comparisons

Notes:

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Microfiche version Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service. Social Security Retirement Earnings Test

Publisher Number:

CRS-2012-DSP-0017

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