Bill Larsen’s Reference List

Title

Web Link

History of Social Security

Initial statement on benefits

http://www.ssa.gov/history/ssb36.html

Details of Ida May Fuller's Payroll Tax Contributions

http://www.ssa.gov/history/idapayroll.html

History

http://www.ssa.gov/history/histdocs.html

Celebrating a 50th Anniversary"

http://www.ssa.gov/history/50im.html

Notch Babies and the wage index method

http://www.ssa.gov/history/notchfile1.html

Social Security & Medicare Tax Rates

http://www.ssa.gov/OACT/ProgData/taxRates.html

Presidential Statements George H. W. Bush

http://www.ssa.gov/history/bushstmts.html#card

Social Security Old Age Survivors Insurance (OASI)

Revenues

http://www.ssa.gov/OACT/STATS/t4a1Income.html

Expenses

http://www.ssa.gov/OACT/STATS/t4a1Outgo.html

Trust Fund

http://www.ssa.gov/OACT/STATS/table4a1.html

OASI Benefit Formula

http://www.ssa.gov/OACT/COLA/Benefits.html

US Average Wage since 1950

http://www.ssa.gov/OACT/COLA/AWI.html

Normal Retirement age

http://www.ssa.gov/OACT/ProgData/nra.html

Cost-of-Living Adjustments

http://www.ssa.gov/OACT/COLA/colaseries.html

Social Security Tax Rates

http://www.ssa.gov/OACT/ProgData/oasdiRates.html

Social Security Wage Base Limit

http://www.ssa.gov/OACT/COLA/cbb.html

US Average Wage sine 1950

http://www.ssa.gov/OACT/COLA/AWIgrowth.html

Nominal Interest Rates on Special Issues

http://www.ssa.gov/OACT/ProgData/newIssueRates.html

Monthly Interest Rates Paid To OASI, 1937-89

http://www.ssa.gov/OACT/ProgData/interestrates1937-89.html

Social Security Disability Insurance (DI)

Revenues

http://www.ssa.gov/OACT/STATS/t4a2Income.html

Expenses

http://www.ssa.gov/OACT/STATS/t4a2Outgo.html

Trust Fund

http://www.ssa.gov/OACT/STATS/table4a2.html

Life Expectancy

Definitions of Life Table Functions

http://www.ssa.gov/OACT/NOTES/as116/as116_IV.html

Life Table for 2002

http://www.ssa.gov/OACT/STATS/table4c6.html

Period life tables 1900 to present

http://www.ssa.gov/OACT/NOTES/as116/as116LOT.html

Cohort Life Expectancies1 - Calendar Years, 2001-75

http://www.ssa.gov/OACT/TR/TR01/lr5A4-a.html

Cohort Life Expectancies1 - Historical Years, 1940-2000

http://www.ssa.gov/OACT/TR/TR01/lr5A4-h.html

Period Life Expectancies1 - Historical Years 1940-2000

http://www.ssa.gov/OACT/TR/TR01/lr5A3-h.html

Cohort Life Tables for U. S. Social Security Area by Year of Birth and Sex

 

1900

http://www.ssa.gov/OACT/NOTES/as116/as116_Tbl_7_1900.html

1910

http://www.ssa.gov/OACT/NOTES/as116/as116_Tbl_7_1910.html

1920

http://www.ssa.gov/OACT/NOTES/as116/as116_Tbl_7_1920.html

1930

http://www.ssa.gov/OACT/NOTES/as116/as116_Tbl_7_1930.html

1940

http://www.ssa.gov/OACT/NOTES/as116/as116_Tbl_7_1940.html

1950

http://www.ssa.gov/OACT/NOTES/as116/as116_Tbl_7_1950.html

1960

http://www.ssa.gov/OACT/NOTES/as116/as116_Tbl_7_1960.html

1970

http://www.ssa.gov/OACT/NOTES/as116/as116_Tbl_7_1970.html

1980

http://www.ssa.gov/OACT/NOTES/as116/as116_Tbl_7_1980.html

1990

http://www.ssa.gov/OACT/NOTES/as116/as116_Tbl_7_1990.html

2000

http://www.ssa.gov/OACT/NOTES/as116/as116_Tbl_7_2000.html

Social Security Numbers

Social Security Numbers

http://www.ssa.gov/history/ssn/ssncards.html

Social Security Numbers For Children

http://www.ssa.gov/pubs/10023.html#must

Evidence Requirements for Assignment of Social Security Numbers (SSNs); Assignment of SSNs for Nonwork Purposes

http://www.ssa.gov/regulations/articles/rin0960_af05f.htm

Supplimental Security Income (SSI)

(SSI) benefits are paid from the general fund of the Treasury.

http://www.ssa.gov/OACT/COLA/SSI.html

Historical SSI payments

http://www.ssa.gov/OACT/COLA/SSIamts.html

US Treasury Department

National Debt

http://www.treas.gov/education/faq/markets/national-debt.html#q4

National Debt

http://www.treas.gov/education/fact-sheets/taxes/fed-debt.html

US Debt

http://zfacts.com/p/654.html

The National Debt Clock

http://www.brillig.com/debt_clock/

Allen Greenspan, Federal Reserve Chairman

 

Greenspan commets

http://www.nationalcenter.org/gspan.htm

Economic outlook and current fiscal issues 2/25/2004

http://www.federalreserve.gov/boarddocs/testimony/2004/20040225/default.htm

At a symposium sponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, Jackson Hole, Wyoming 8/28/2004

http://www.federalreserve.gov/boarddocs/speeches/2004/20040827/default.htm

Economic outlook and current fiscal issues

 

Congressional Budget Office

http://www.cbo.gov/

President Bush's Commission on Social Security

http://www.csss.gov/

Interim Report

http://www.csss.gov/reports/Report-Interim.pdf

Final Report

http://www.csss.gov/reports/Final_report.pdf

2004 Trustee Report

http://www.ssa.gov/OACT/TR/TR01/lr5A3-h.html

2003 OASDI Trustees Report

http://www.ssa.gov/OACT/TR/TR03/index.html

2002 OASDI Trustees Report

http://www.ssa.gov/OACT/TR/TR02/index.html

2001 OASDI Trustees Report

http://www.ssa.gov/OACT/TR/TR01/index.html

2000 OASDI Trustees Report

http://www.ssa.gov/OACT/TR/TR00/index.html

1999 OASDI Trustees Report

http://www.ssa.gov/OACT/TR/TR99/index.html

1998 OASDI Trustees Report

http://www.ssa.gov/OACT/TR/TR98/index.html

1997 OASDI Trustees Report

http://www.ssa.gov/OACT/TR/TR97/index.html

1996 Trust Fund Report

http://www.ssa.gov/history/reports/trust/1996/index.html

1995 Trust Fund Report

http://www.ssa.gov/history/reports/trust/1995/index.html

1942-1994 Trust

http://www.ssa.gov/history/reports/trust/trustyears.html

Stochastic Models

other stochastic models

http://www.ssa.gov/OACT/TR/TR01/lr5A3-h.html

SSA's Office of Policy compares results from various stochastic models.

http://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/rsnotes/rsn2003-01.html

These proposals are generally intended to restore, or largely restore, solvency for the long-range period (the next 75 years).

http://www.ssa.gov/OACT/solvency/index.html

Federal Budget

http://www.bea.doc.gov/bea/dn/nipaweb/SelectTable.asp?Selected=N

Internal Revenue Service

Individual Income Tax Returns: Selected Income and Tax Items for Specified Tax Years, 1985-2002. 

http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-soi/02in01si.xls

Number of Individual Income Tax Returns, by Type of Tax Settlement, Tax Years 1950-2002.

http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-soi/02in09ts.xls

Number of Individual Income Tax Returns, Income, Exemptions and Deductions, Tax, and Average Tax, by Size of Adjusted Gross Income, Tax Years 2000-2002.

http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-soi/02in03at.xls

Personal Exemptions and Individual Income Tax Rates, 1913-2002.

http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-soi/02inpetr.pdf

Standard, Itemized, and Total Deductions Reported on Individual Income Tax Returns, Tax Years 1950-2002.

http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-soi/02in07td.xls

Individual Income Tax Rates and Shares, 2001: Article (PDF).

http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-soi/01taxsh.pdf

Individual Income Tax Returns, 2001.

http://www.irs.gov/taxstats/article/0,,id=96586,00.html

Other Links

U.S. Department of Labor

http://stats.bls.gov/cpi/

Detailed CPI Statistics:

http://stats.bls.gov/cpi/#data

CPI-all

ftp://ftp.bls.gov/pub/special.requests/cpi/cpiai.txt