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Social Security: The Chilean Example (CRS Report for Congress)

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Release Date Revised June 26, 2002
Report Number 95-839
Authors Geoffrey Kollmann, Domestic Social Policy Division
Source Agency Congressional Research Service
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Summary:

In 1981, Chile began to phase out its state-run social security system in favor of mandatory individual private accounts. As social security programs in the United States and other countries increasingly experience long-range financing problems, interest has grown in the Chilean system, and some analysts have Recommended it as a model for reforming the U.S. social security program. This report describes Chile’s new social security system and lists points that support or oppose using a similar approach in this country.