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Summary of Provisions That Would Change the Social Security Program |
Description of Proposed Provisions:
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Estimates based on the intermediate assumptions of the 2013 Trustees Report
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Change from present law | Results with this provision | |||||
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Long-range actuarial balance |
Annual balance in 75th year |
Long-range actuarial balance |
Annual balance in 75th year |
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  | Present Law, Alternative II. |
  |   | -2.72 | -4.77 | |
F1 |
Starting in 2014, cover newly hired State and local government employees.
graph | table | pdf-graph | pdf-table | memo (Fiscal Commission) | memo (Bipartisan Policy Center) | memo (Warshawsky) | memo (Social Security Advisory Board) |
0.15 | -0.17 | -2.56 | -4.94 | |
F2 |
Starting in 2014, exempt individuals with more than 180 quarters of coverage
from the OASDI payroll tax.
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-0.29 | -0.45 | -3.01 | -5.21 | |
F3 |
Expand covered earnings to include employer and employee premiums for employer-sponsored
group health insurance (ESI). Starting in 2018, phase out the OASDI payroll tax exclusion
for ESI premiums. Set an exclusion level at the 75th percentile of premium distribution
in 2018, with amounts above that subject to the payroll tax. Reduce the exclusion level
each year by 10 percent of the 2018 exclusion level until fully eliminated in 2028.
Eliminate the excise tax on ESI premiums scheduled to begin in 2018.
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1.01 | 0.87 | -1.71 | -3.90 | |
F4 |
Expand covered earnings to include contributions to voluntary salary reduction plans (such
as Cafeteria 125 plans and Flexible Spending Accounts). Starting in 2014, subject these
contributions to the OASDI payroll tax, making the payroll tax treatment of these contributions
like 401(k) contributions.
graph | table | pdf-graph | pdf-table | memo (Bipartisan Policy Center) |
0.22 | 0.12 | -2.50 | -4.64 | |
F5 |
Tax Reform for Business: Establish a value added tax of 3.0 percent for 2015 and 6.5
percent for 2016 and later. Starting in 2015, reduce the corporate income tax rate from 35
to 27 percent.
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-0.02 | 0.18 | -2.73 | -4.59 |
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