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Social Security Forecasting:An Actuarial Study of the OASDI Trust Fund balance projections & proposals for delaying fund exhaustion
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open in viewerThe goal of the project was to offer mathematical solutions to the issue of Old Age Social Security Trust Fund’s dissipating as a result of the Baby Boomer generation retiring in numbers too great to sustain. We constructed a model in Microsoft Excel that uses a number of adjustable factors to save the program and found that raising the retirement age eligible to collect benefits and simultaneously increasing the contribution tax rate would prevent the expiration of the program.
- This report represents the work of one or more WPI undergraduate students submitted to the faculty as evidence of completion of a degree requirement. WPI routinely publishes these reports on its website without editorial or peer review.
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- E-project-042513-133537
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- 2013
- Date created
- 2013-04-25
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- Major
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MQP_Social_Security_Forecasting_Presentation.pdf | Public | Download |
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