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Social Security Reform: Information on the Archer-Shaw Proposal

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Report Type Reports and Testimonies
Report Date Jan. 19, 2000
Report No. AIMD/HEHS-00-56
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Summary:

This report applies GAO's criteria for assessing Social Security reform proposals to the plan outlined by Congressman Archer. GAO's report is based on an analytical framework that the agency provided to Congress last March. That framework consists of the following three criteria: the extent to which the proposal achieves sustainable solvency and how it would affect the U.S. economy and the federal budget; the balance struck between the twin goals of income adequacy (level and certainty of benefits) and individual equity (rates of return on individual contributions); and how readily such changes could be implemented, administered, and explained to the public.

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