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Providing Income Security To The Elderly: The Role Of Programs Other Than Social Security

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  • Sylvester J. Schieber

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Social Security retirement benefits have had a dramatic effect on the elderly's economic well‐being over the last four decades. Many other facets of federal law have also enhanced the elderly's income security and should not be overlooked, however. Today, the elderly receive income from an amalgam of publicly and privately organized programs and individual provisions. The primary goal of these programs is to provide adequate income to the elderly. While all the major components of this loosely configured system, as we know it now, have evolved in the last 45 years, they have not developed at the same rate. It is important to understand this point because the relative role of the various income sources for future groups of the elderly will be somewhat different than for current ones

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  • Sylvester J. Schieber, 1983. "Providing Income Security To The Elderly: The Role Of Programs Other Than Social Security," Contemporary Economic Policy, Western Economic Association International, vol. 1(3), pages 33-52, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:coecpo:v:1:y:1983:i:3:p:33-52
    DOI: 10.1111/j.1465-7287.1983.tb00759.x
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