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OCR Page 1 of 80August 28, 1998
Social Secuirty and Women
I. Social Security and Women Today
Do women win or lose from Social Security today?
Life expectancy -- inflation protected annuity
Work related -- PIA formula gives no credit for work in the home
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Describe historic earnings and participation trends
Explain spouse benefits, widow benefits, dual entitlement
Progressivity
Rate of return calculations (1 percent V. 7 percent) vs. benefit levels ($838 V. $634)
Is the current Social Security system fair to working women?
Show benefit for equal income households with women who work at home V. households
with women who work in market
Incentives for specialization in home/market production.
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Why are elderly widows and divorcees poor?
Large literature
What is women's pension coverage like today and what will it be like in the future?
Interaction with job composition trends, DB V. DC
Impact of previous pension reforms on share taking joint and survivor pensions etc.
II. Potential Reforms
How would women fare in a system of individual accounts?
Benefits more closely tied to earnings
Life expectancy
Investment behavior
Divorcees and survivors
Possible protections (progressivity, annuitization, earnings splitting, divorce rules)
What's wrong with CATO study?
How would traditional reform options differentially impact women?
Any sort of benefit reductions
Computation years
Retirement age
COLA
Spousal benefits
What Changes to the Current DB SS Could Help Women/ reduce elderly poverty
Shifting benefits from married couples to widows. (Talk to Goss)
Could we do something for divorcees? Give them more than 50 percent?
Drop out years?
Need other creative ideas.
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