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2007

Vol. 67, No. 4

(released June 2008)

Includes articles on:

  • Women, Marriage, and Social Security Benefits Revisited
  • Disabled Workers and the Indexing of Social Security Benefits
  • Financing Social Security 1939-1949: A Reexamination of the Financing Policies of this Period
  • The Food Stamp Program and Supplemental Security Income
  • The Reservation Wages of Social Security Disability Insurance Beneficiaries
  • KiwiSaver: New Zealand's New Subsidized Retirement Savings Plans

Vol. 67, No. 3

(released April 2008)

Includes articles on:

  • Trends in Mortality Differentials and Life Expectancy for Male Social Security-Covered Workers, by Socioeconomic Status
  • Benefit Adequacy Among Elderly Social Security Retired-Worker Beneficiaries and the SSI Federal Benefit Rate
  • Effective Retirement Savings Programs: Design Features and Financial Education
  • Social Security Cost-of-Living Adjustments and the Consumer Price Index
  • The Evolution of Japanese Employer-Sponsored Retirement Plans

Vol. 67, No. 2

(released February 2008)

Includes articles on:

  • Have People Delayed Claiming Retirement Benefits? Responses to Changes in Social Security Rules
  • The Never-Married in Old Age: Projections and Concerns for the Near Future
  • The Impact of the Unit of Observation on the Measurement of the Relative Importance of Social Security Benefits to the Elderly
  • Estimates of Unreported Asset Income in the Survey of Consumer Finances and the Relative Importance of Social Security Benefits to the Elderly
  • The Impact of Survey Choice on Measuring the Relative Importance of Social Security Benefits to the Elderly
  • Measuring the Relative Importance of Social Security Benefits to the Elderly
  • Hispanics, Social Security, and Supplemental Security Income
  • How Post Secondary Education Improves Adult Outcomes for Supplemental Security Income Children with Severe Hearing Impairments

Vol. 67, No. 1

(released August 2007)

Includes articles on:

  • How Have People Responded to Changes in the Retirement Earnings Test in 2000?
  • Recent Trends in Workers' Compensation
  • Summary and Overview of the 2007 Trustees Report
  • Expenditures of the Aged
  • Homeless People Whose Self-Reported SSI/DI Status Is Inconsistent with Social Security Administration Records

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