Recent Social Security blogs—some corrections (Henry J. Aaron, Brookings)

Recently, Brookings has posted two articles commenting on proposals to raise the full retirement age for Social Security retirement benefits from 67 to 70. One revealed a fundamental misunderstanding of how the program actually works and what the effects of the policy change would be. The other proposes changes to the system that would subvert the fundamental purpose of the Social Security in the name of ‘reforming’ it.

http://www.brookings.edu/research/opinions/2016/04/15-recent-social-security-blogs-some-corrections-aaron