The Congressional Budget Office has published corrections tocontroversial Social Security income replacementrate data published in December 2015.
In the numbers first published in CBO’s 2015 Long-Term Projections for SocialSecurity, the non-partisan agency, which providesbudget and economic research for Congress, reported that theaverage replacement rate for retirees born in the 1940s was 60percent.
But the corrected number, which CBO said resulted from“questions raised by outside analysts,” is 43 percent, a“substantially” lower replacement rate, wrote Keith Hall, CBO’sdirector, in a blog post announcing the correction.
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