Description of Proposed Provision:
E2.4: Eliminate the taxable maximum for years 2025 and later (phased in 2019-2025), and apply full 12.4 percent payroll tax rate to all earnings. Provide benefit credit for earnings above the current-law taxable maximum that are subject to the payroll tax, using a secondary PIA formula. This secondary PIA formula involves: (1) an "AIME+" derived from annual earnings from each year after 2018 that were in excess of that year's current-law taxable maximum; (2) a new bend point equal to 134 percent of the monthly current-law taxable maximum; and (3) formula factors of 3 percent and 0.25 percent below and above the new bend point, respectively.

Financial Estimates for the OASDI Trust Fund Program

  Proposal   Change from Current Law
  Expressed as a percentage of
current-law taxable payroll

Trust fund
ratio as of
January 1
Expressed as a percentage of
current-law taxable payroll
Calendar
year
Cost
rate
Income
rate
Annual
balance

Cost
rate
Income
rate
Annual
balance
201813.8112.64-1.17
288
0.000.000.00
201913.9513.21-0.75
272
0.000.340.34
202014.1213.59-0.54
258
-0.000.690.69
202114.2713.96-0.31
246
-0.001.041.04
202214.4414.32-0.11
236
-0.001.381.38
202314.6214.670.05
228
-0.001.701.70
202414.8015.010.21
221
-0.002.022.02
202514.9815.320.34
216
-0.002.322.32
202615.1515.450.30
212
-0.002.322.32
202715.3615.460.10
209
-0.002.312.31
202815.5815.48-0.10
205
-0.002.312.31
202915.7915.50-0.29
201
-0.002.312.31
203015.9815.51-0.47
197
-0.002.312.31
203116.1615.53-0.63
193
-0.002.312.31
203216.3215.54-0.78
189
0.002.312.31
203316.4515.55-0.90
185
0.002.312.31
203416.5715.56-1.01
180
0.002.312.31
203516.6515.57-1.09
176
0.002.312.31
203616.7315.57-1.15
171
0.002.312.31
203716.7915.58-1.21
165
0.012.322.31
203816.8315.59-1.24
160
0.012.322.31
203916.8415.59-1.25
154
0.012.322.31
204016.8415.59-1.25
149
0.012.322.31
204116.8215.59-1.23
143
0.012.322.31
204216.7915.59-1.19
138
0.012.322.31
204316.7515.59-1.15
133
0.012.322.31
204416.7115.59-1.11
128
0.012.322.31
204516.6715.59-1.08
123
0.012.322.31
204616.6415.59-1.05
118
0.012.322.31
204716.6115.59-1.02
113
0.012.322.31
204816.5915.59-1.00
109
0.012.332.31
204916.5715.59-0.98
104
0.012.332.31
205016.5615.59-0.96
99
0.012.332.31
205116.5515.60-0.95
95
0.022.332.31
205216.5515.60-0.95
90
0.022.332.31
205316.5615.60-0.96
86
0.022.332.31
205416.5815.60-0.97
81
0.022.332.31
205516.6115.61-1.00
76
0.022.332.31
205616.6415.61-1.03
71
0.022.332.31
205716.6815.62-1.07
65
0.022.332.31
205816.7315.62-1.11
60
0.022.332.32
205916.7815.63-1.15
54
0.022.332.32
206016.8315.63-1.20
47
0.022.342.32
206116.8815.64-1.24
41
0.022.342.32
206216.9315.64-1.29
34
0.022.342.32
206316.9815.65-1.34
27
0.022.342.32
206417.0415.65-1.38
20
0.022.342.32
206517.0915.66-1.43
12
0.022.342.32
206617.1515.66-1.49
4
0.022.342.32
206717.2015.67-1.54
----
0.022.342.32
206817.2615.67-1.59
----
0.022.342.32
206917.3315.68-1.65
----
0.022.352.32
207017.3915.68-1.70
----
0.022.352.32
207117.4415.69-1.76
----
0.022.352.33
207217.4915.69-1.80
----
0.022.352.33
207317.5415.70-1.84
----
0.022.352.33
207417.5815.70-1.88
----
0.022.352.33
207517.6115.71-1.91
----
0.022.352.33
207617.6315.71-1.93
----
0.022.352.33
207717.6515.71-1.94
----
0.022.362.33
207817.6515.71-1.94
----
0.022.362.33
207917.6415.71-1.93
----
0.022.362.33
208017.6315.71-1.92
----
0.022.362.33
208117.6115.72-1.90
----
0.022.362.34
208217.6015.72-1.88
----
0.022.362.34
208317.5815.72-1.86
----
0.032.362.34
208417.5715.72-1.85
----
0.032.362.34
208517.5615.72-1.84
----
0.032.372.34
208617.5515.72-1.84
----
0.032.372.34
208717.5615.72-1.84
----
0.032.372.34
208817.5715.72-1.85
----
0.032.372.34
208917.6015.72-1.87
----
0.032.372.34
209017.6315.73-1.90
----
0.032.372.35
209117.6615.73-1.93
----
0.032.372.35
209217.7115.74-1.97
----
0.032.382.35
209317.7515.74-2.01
----
0.032.382.35


Summarized Estimates

  Proposal   Change from Current Law
Years Cost
rate
Income
rate
Actuarial
balance

Year of reserve
depletion
1

Cost
rate
Income
rate
Actuarial
balance
2018-2092 16.70% 16.04% -0.66%
2066
0.01% 2.20% 2.18%

1 Under current law, the year of Trust Fund reserve depletion is 2034.
Based on Intermediate Assumptions of the 2018 Trustees Report.