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Summary Measures and Graphs
Level of Monthly Benefits (PIA)

Description of Proposed Provision:
Provide a 5 percent increase to the benefit level of any beneficiary who is 85 or older at the beginning of 2010 or who reaches their 85th birthday after the beginning of 2010.

Estimates based on the intermediate assumptions of the 2009 Trustees Report

Summary Measures
[As a percentage of taxable payroll]
Present Law Change from present law Results with this provision
Long-range
actuarial
balance		 Annual
balance in
75th year		 Long-range
actuarial
balance		 Annual
balance in
75th year		 Long-range
actuarial
balance		 Annual
balance in
75th year
-2.00 -4.34 -0.09 -0.13 -2.09 -4.48


graph of OASDI cost rates and income rates by year, under present law and provision. click on graph to view underlying data. graph of OASDI trust fund ratio by year, under present law and provision. click on graph to view underlying data.
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